phpmailer contact form help for complete novice

basquen · June 18, 2007

Hi,

I've spent most of the afternoon battling with a phpmailer script to get it working with gmail smtp authentification. I've used a modified class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php scripts to handle the gmail ssl authentification & my contact form now works fine. (Submit and received).

However I'm stuck on a ridiculously simple problem.

The form is called to display in a static html page as follows:

 <?
include("form.php");
?>

form.php


<link href="css/master.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<form action="lib/phpmailer/ozcontact.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <table width="450">
        <tr>
            <td class="label">Name *</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="sender_name" value="" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="label">E-mail address *</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="sender_email" value="" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="label">Subject *</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="subject" value="" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Message *</td>
          <td><textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2"><br /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="right"><input name="submit" type="submit" class="buttonSubmit" value="Submit" /><input type="reset" class="buttonSubmitblue" value="Reset"></td>
        </tr>
  </table>
</form>

on submit, the form is handled by ozcontact.php as follows:

<?php

require_once 'class.phpmailer.php';
//get contact form details
$name = $_POST['sender_name'];
$email = $_POST['sender_email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$comments = $_POST['message'];

$html_font = "verdana";
$html_font_size = "10pt";
$alink_color = "#11116E";
$vlink_color = "#11116E";
$hlink_color = "#000000";

$response="<html>\n<head>\n<style>\nA:link {text-decoration: none; color: $alink_color;}\nA:visited {text-decoration: none; color: $vlink_color;}\nA:hover {font-style: italic; color: $hlink_color; text-decoration: underline;}\nBODY{font-family: $html_font; font-size: $html_font_size;}TD {font-family: $html_font; color: #000000; font-size: $html_font_size;}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n <td nowrap width=\"1%\">\n<b>Submitted</b>\n</td>\n<td width=\"99%\">Date: " . date("d F, Y ") ."\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap width=\"1%\">\n<b>From</b></td>\n<td width=\"99%\"> $name\n- <A HREF=\"mailto:$email\">$email</A></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap width=\"1%\">\n<b>Subject</b></td>
    \n<td width=\"99%\"> $subject\n</td>
    \n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap width=\"1%\" valign=\"top\">\n<b>Message</b></td>\n<td width=\"99%\">".nl2br($comments)."</td>\n</tr>\n\n</table>
<br>\n<br>\n<div align=\"right\"><i>My company <A HREF=\"http://www.myweb.com\">my url</A></i></div></body></html>
"
;


$mail = new PHPMailer ();

$mail -> From = $name;
$mail -> FromName = $email;
$mail -> AddAddress ("xxx@gmail.com");
$mail -> Subject = "Website Enquiry";
$mail -> Body = $response;
$mail -> IsHTML (true);

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'xxx@gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxx';

if(!$mail->Send()) {
        echo 'Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else {
{       echo 'Thanks for contacting us - we will get back to you very soon!';
}
}
?>

On submit I need to refresh the form and display a thank-you message within the static html page. As it stands the whole page is refreshed. Once this is solved I need to add simple validation to the form....

Any help would be gratefully received - I'm tearing my hair out now!

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