I am trying to configure my 'send message/submit' button so that when clicked it accesses a php file in the local directory and executes the code to email the corresponding data.
The HTML code shows the following:
<section class="contact-us">
<div class="form-wrapper">
<div class="contact-form">
<form>
<fieldset>
<div class="control-group">
<input id="Field12" name="Field12" placeholder="Full Name" required="" tabindex="1" type="text" value="">
</div>
<div class="inline-groups">
<div class="control-group">
<input id="Field3" maxlength="255" name="Field3" placeholder="Email" required="" spellcheck="false" tabindex="2" type="email" value="">
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<input id="Field4" maxlength="255" name="Field4" placeholder="Phone number (optional)" tabindex="3" type="tel" value="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<textarea cols="50" id="Field5" name="Field5" placeholder="Let us know what we can do for you!" spellcheck="true" tabindex="4"></textarea>
</div>
<input id="idstamp" name="idstamp" type="hidden" value="r885sYVzp1O8HO4V4MdnZvkis7E3NZIfZ8CtHRCtCdY">
<button class="button" action="send_form_email.php" type="submit">Send message</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
The PHP code shows the following:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "matty65622@hotmail.com";
$email_subject = "Greenmount Engineering | Customer Enquiry";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['tel']) ||
!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['tel']; // not required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
$error_message .= 'The name you entered does not seem to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.
";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."
";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."
";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."
";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."
";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."
".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."
" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>
I am not sure if this code will work 100% yet as I have not tried it, but as you can see the attempt to link the HTML button to the php script only refreshes the page when sent, but when I check my email nothing comes through. <button class="button" action="send_form_email.php"
You have to replace one line of code.
Always use action in form tag so move the action="send_form_email.php" in <form method="post"> tag and your code will run.
A few adjustments need to be done to your code:
Add method="post" attribute to your <form> tag (so the method used is not get).
Add action="send_form_email.php" attribute to your <form> tag (so your form redirects to your script).
Add name="submit" to your <button> tag (so the expression if(isset($_POST["submit"])) in send_form_email.php evaluates to true and the code block gets executed).
Change name attributes of your <input>s according to your $_POST['...'] (so PHP recognizes the input values).
And you should be good to go.