Confused by HTML online inquiry form

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Hi

I want to post an inquiry form on my website. So I obtained this very simple one.


<form action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="action" value="submit" type="hidden"> Your name:<br>
<input name="name" size="30" type="text"><br> Your email:<br>
<input name="email" size="30" type="text"><br> Your message:<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="7" cols="30">
</textarea><br>
<input value="Send email" type="submit">
</form>



I am however confused. There is no option to put the email address where the message is going, so it just goes back to the main page.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[smoggy07]

add this in place of your code above

<form name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php">

<table width="450px">

<tr>

<td valign="top">

<label for="name">Name*</label>

</td>

<td valign="top">

<input  type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" size="30">

</td>

</tr>


<tr>

<td valign="top">

<label for="email">Email Address *</label>

</td>

<td valign="top">

<input  type="text" name="email" maxlength="80" size="30">

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td valign="top">

<label for="comments">Comments *</label>

</td>

<td valign="top">

<textarea  name="comments" maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6"></textarea>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td colspan="2" style="text-align:center">

<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>

then make a new php page, name it "send_form_email.php" and add the following code to it, changing "you @ yourdomain . com" to your email and "Your email subject line" to what ever you want

<?php

if(isset($_POST['email'])) {



// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED

$email_to = "you@yourdomain.com";

$email_subject = "Your email subject line";





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['comments'])) {

died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');

}



$first_name = $_POST['name']; // required

$email_from = $_POST['email']; // 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 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.\n\n";


function clean_string($string) {

$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");

return str_replace($bad,"",$string);

}


$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";

$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";

$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";



// create email headers

$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".

'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .

'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

}

?>

upload the .php file to the same directory as your contact form and you should be good to go

The above is a working example but you'll need to add a captcha or something to beat the spammers

 

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THANKS! I will give it a try.

Many thanks again. Much appreciated.