making a form on my website

[batiso]

I wanted to ask guys out there i am in kind of fix. I have developed a web page for my friend. He was browsing on a BBC site and found a form whereby you fill a form and click send then an email goes to BBC.
this is the site http://www.sdnp.org.mw/~manga/ pliz advise on where forward.

[MulderMan]

is your server php enabled? and do you have any exp. in php?

[batiso]

i dont have much exp am just starting out in that area. At the moment my friend told me that its simple and i can get it on the net.
About my server being PHP enabled i think it is coz a couple of websites which run on our server have these forms.

[kram 2.0]

PHP Code:

<form method="POST" action="mailto:INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS HERE"><textarea name="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA><input type="submit"></form> 


Hope that helps,
kram

[batiso]

check out the page now but the problem comes when you try to send the mail. I can see the form alrite but i cant send to the addres specified.

[MulderMan]

This is what i used to use on my site.

index.html

PHP Code:

<form method="get" action="contact.php">
Your Name:
<input type="text" name="name">
Your E-mail Address:
<input type="text" name="email">
Subject:
<input type="text" name="subject">
Message:
<textarea name="message" cols="40" rows="10"></textarea>

<input type="submit" value="send">
</form> 


then contact.php

PHP Code:

<?php
if($name) {
$name=$_GET['name'];
$email=$_GET['email'];
$subject1=$_GET['subject'];
$message=$_GET['message'];
$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$host = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$host = $ip.".".$host;
$mon=date(m);
$day=date(j);
$year=date(y);
$hour=date(g);
$min=date(i);
$sec=date(s);
$hour=$hour-2;
if($hour<=0) { $hour+=12; }
$ts = "$hour:$min:$sec on $mon/$day/$year";
//reciving email
$to="mail@mail.com";
//email subject
$subject="Subject:"." $subject1";
$body="
Message from: $name
Subject: $subject1
E-mail: $email
Message: $message

Host: $host
Time: $ts";

mail($to, $subject, $body);
echo "";
}
?>

you just need to edit what you want the title to be and you email address under where the comments are.

[mairving]

Your mailto form on your site won't work because you used reset instead of submit. This resets the form. Mailto is a quick and dirty way to do it. Mulderman has given a little better one but you should have some validation of the fields as to whether they are filled in and whether the email address is valid.

Look over at Zend for some more complex scripts.

[batiso]

Mulderman
do i need to edit the first part or the part which needs editing is the one below. And i dont understand how the second part fits. do i just add it below the code for the form.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by batiso Mulderman do i need to edit the first part or the part which needs editing is the one below. And i dont understand how the second part fits. do i just add it below the code for the form.

batiso, if you notice in the first part,
<form method="get" action="contact.php">
It says that the action is to call contact.php page upon submit. This means that you need two pages in this case and would edit the only the second page.

This could quite easily all have been done on one page as well but in this example it is 2.

[batiso]

Marving thanks for the advice it really has helped me a lot. Check the site now and you will see your sweat the man
http://www.sdnp.org.mw/~manga/

[mairving]

Originally Posted by batiso Marving thanks for the advice it really has helped me a lot. Check the site now and you will see your sweat the man http://www.sdnp.org.mw/~manga/

No sweat for me. Glad that you got things going.

[MulderMan]

Originally Posted by mairving Your mailto form on your site won't work because you used reset instead of submit. This resets the form. Mailto is a quick and dirty way to do it. Mulderman has given a little better one but you should have some validation of the fields as to whether they are filled in and whether the email address is valid. Look over at Zend for some more complex scripts.

next step is validation mairving, im only still learning!