contact forms

off.the.walls

Have the forms laid out in html

what i need to know is how do i link my php page to my html page to make the poxy thing work

The Corinthian

I presume you didn't write the code in the PHP page, but got it from a third party. If so, I suggest you read whatever documentation came with the script.

Feathers

In a general sense, it's the action attribute of the form that tells it where to post if you're reading up on it. But as TC says, unless you're coding the handler from scratch, you probably have some docs somewhere.

The Corinthian

The docs are important as many such third-party forms may require settings sent in hidden form fields or other configurations to work properly.

off.the.walls

<?php

$name=$_POST;
$email=$_POST;
$message=$_POST;

$to="off.the.walls@live.ie";
$subject="Grasp Web Mail Alert";
$body="This is an automated message your message has been recieved, do not reply to this message.";
mail ($to,$subject,$body);

echo 'Message Sent!<a href="contact.html">Click Here</a>To Send Another';


?>



iv id="content" class="container">
<form action="send.php" method="POST">
Name <br/> <input type="text" name="name" /><br/>
Email <br/> <input type="text" name="email" /><br/>
Message <br/> <textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class-"submit" name="Send" />



thats the php and the html, just keeps telling me i need a server?

The Corinthian

If you're doing this on your local machine, then you don't have a mail server; hence the error.

Secondly, all that PHP script will do is sent you an email with the text: "This is an automated message your message has been received, do not reply to this message", which isn't much use. You would need to incorporate the data from the form in some way, like this:
[PHP]$body = "Sender: ".$name."\nEmail: ".$email."\nMessage: ".$message."\n";[/PHP]
It's not a very secure script, TBH.

tricky D

Are you writing the script from scratch yourself? If so, you would be much better off grabbing one of the many formmail scripts already out there. They will be properly hardened for security.

off.the.walls

got it off a youtube tutorial.

tricky D

Grab yourself formmail: http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html or a similar script. It's pretty easy to set up.

The one you are using is way, way too basic with little security, customisation, checking etc... What you are using is like a wooden wheel compared to a modern day car wheel.

off.the.walls

Cheers for the help lads. Think i may grab myself a book on php haha