I am trying to make a form that will hide on submit and replace it with a thank you msg. Ive tried several things but nothing has worked so far. The code I have now works fine. I would ultimately like the error msg to show on the same page as well with a back button. I am working on that for now. Wish me luck! Thanks for all the help in advance you guys are always awesome!
this is my php
<? php
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email_to = "stormygurl73@yahoo.com";
$email_subject = "Your email subject line";
function died($error) {
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['first_name']) || !isset($_POST['last_name']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['telephone']) || !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // 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, $first_name)) {
$error_message. = 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if (!preg_match($string_exp, $last_name)) {
$error_message. = 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if (strlen($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);
}
$email_message. = "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."
";
$email_message. = "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."
";
$email_message. = "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."
";
$email_message. = "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."
";
$email_message. = "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."
";
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."
".'Reply-To: '.$email_from."
".'X-Mailer: PHP/'.phpversion();@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
echo "We have received your enquiry. We will contact you soon.";
} ?>
I am using just a basic contact form. Thanks for any help!
It is good to use session in this case. You can set a session after form submit. for example
$_SESSION['IS_FORM_SUBMIT']=true;
and in your view you can check:
if(isset($_SESSION['IS_FORM_SUBMIT']) && $_SESSION['IS_FORM_SUBMIT']===true){
// SHOW FORM
}else{
//SHOW MESSAGE
}
It is also possible to set a redirect with a $_GET
parameter. If I may give a little hint: when you are validating an email address only check on a '@' and valid characters. You are also checking for the extension but maybe there will be extension with 5 characters or more in the future.