mailform - php coding

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<title>formmail php coding</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="contactformstyle.css" type="text/css">

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<body>



<div id="header">your header can go here</div>



<!-- beginning of form -->

<div id="form">

<form method="post" action="contact_form.php">



<?php

/* initialize the variables */


$goesto="null";



// for user form submission - character lengths limited and spaces stripped


$name = substr(trim($_POST['name']), 0, 60);

$email = substr(trim($_POST['email']), 0, 60);

$comment = substr(trim($_POST['comment']), 0, 300);



// for processing - change nonstandard characters into character entities

$fixname = htmlentities($name);

$fixcomment = htmlentities($comment, ENT_QUOTES);


/* *** change yourdomainname to the domainname of the recipient

eg: $domain="crosswinds.net"; *** */



$domain="YOUR_ISP.com";



/* *** change 'recipientname' to that of the recipient

eg: $goesto = "j_smith"."@".$domain ; *** */


$goesto = "YOUR_NAME"."@".$domain ;

$subject = "comments from feedback form";


// see www.php.net/date for time setups

$today = date('\a\t H:i O \o\n l, j F, Y' ,time());



// for split email

$userName = "null";

$mailDomain = "null";

$sender_email = "null";



// set up how things will look on the email message

$message = "Name: $name\nemail: $email\nYour comments: $comment\n";

$extra = "From: $name\r\nReply-To: $email\r\n";



// begin validation

if (($name == "") || ($email == "") || ($comment == ""))

{

echo '<div id="oops">An error has occurred and the form cannot be sent. Please note that all areas of the form <em>must</em> be filled in. Either use your browser buttons to go back to the form or make corrections below.</div>'. "\n\n";

}



if ($name == "") {

echo '<p class="error"><label for="name">Your name</label> (required):<br /> <input type="text" id="name" name="name" /></p>';

}

else {

echo '<p>Your name:<br />';

echo '<input type="hidden" value="' , $fixname , '" id="name" name="name" />'; echo '<span class="done">' , $fixname , '</span></p>';

}



// require email with proper syntax

if ($email == "") {

echo '<p class="error"><label for="email">Your e-mail address</label> (required):<br /> <input type="text" id="email" name="email" /></p>';

}

elseif ((!ereg(".+\@.+\..+", $email)) || (!ereg("^[a-zA-Z0-9_@.-]+$", $email)))

{

echo '<p class="error">Please retype <label for="email">your e-mail address</label>:<br />'. "\n" .' <input type="text" name="email" id="email" /></p>'. "\n";

$email = ""; // - thanks Joaquim!!

}

else {

//split email address in half

list($userName, $mailDomain) = split('@', $email);

$sender_email = $userName."@".$mailDomain;

echo '<p>Your e-mail address:<br /> <input type="hidden" value="' , $sender_email , '" name="email" id="email" /><span class="done">' , $sender_email , '</span></p>';

}



// require comment

if ($comment == "") {

echo '<p class="error"><label for="comment">Your Brief Message</label> (required):<br /> <textarea name="comment" id="comment"></textarea></p>';

}

else {

echo '<p>Your Brief Message:<br /> <input type="hidden" id="comment" value="' ,$fixcomment, '" name="comment" /><span class="done">' , $fixcomment , '</span></p>';

}



// end validation



// send back the unfinished form if the required fields are not filled

if (($name == "") || ($email == "") || ($comment == ""))

{

echo '<p><input type="submit" value="Send Form" class="button" title="Before sending, please proofread. Go back ("alt + ?") to make correction(s)" /></p>';

}



// send the completed form if everything is filled out

else {

mail ($goesto, $subject, $message, $extra);



// set up confirmation message for webpage

echo '<div id="thnks"><p>Thank you for your message. We appreciate hearing from you, ' .$name. '. A copy of the message sent ' .$today. ' appears on this page. (Please note that this is only a test and this test message went nowhere.)</p></div>';

}



echo '</form></div>';



/* thanks mainly to Dan Ball

(www.webreference.com/programming/php/phpemail/2.html) for the terrific tutorial and www.php.net for the huge reference section; also multiple thanks to the crosswinds cadre (www.crosswinds-cadre.net), especially playfulkitten and ragbert for help in getting the thing to validate. And finally to Joaquim (www.nerd-boy.net) for the helping to get the validations to work completely */ ?>

<!-- end of form -->




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