CSS-Tricks

Forums Get help. Give help.

• lanawylma February 20 Permalink

  Hi All,
  
  I downloaded Chris's simple contact form, and, since I know pretty much nothing about PHP, I was hoping to get some help..
  
  Below is my markup:
  
  
  

  <form id="contact-form" action = "contactengine.php" method = "post">
     
      <fieldset id="texfields" class="grid_4 alpha">
      	<ul>
          <li>
           <label for="name">Name</label><br>
           <input id="name" name="name" type="text" placeholder="First and last name" 		required>
            
           </li>
                  
           <li>
            <label for="email">Email</label><br>
            <input id="email" name="email" type="email" placeholder="example@domain.com" required>
                      
                      
             </li>
                      
             <li>
              <label for="phone">Phone</label><br>
              <input id="phone" name="phone" type="tel" placeholder="Eg.000.000.0000" required>
              </li>
              </ul>
                  
         </fieldset>
         
         <fieldset id="comments" class="grid_4 omega">
         
         <label for="comments">Comments</label><br>
         <textarea id="comments" name="comments"  placeholder="Type your message here"required></textarea><br>
         
         <button type="submit" class="grid_1">Send</button>
        
         </fieldset>
                  
      
      
  </form>

  
  
  
  And this is the PHP that I modified (I was hoping that's what I had to do) to match my markup:
  
  

  <?php
  
  $EmailFrom = "chriscoyier@gmail.com";
  $EmailTo = "info@dreamgem.net";
  $Subject = "Nice & Simple Contact Form by CSS-Tricks";
  $Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['name'])); 
  $Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['email'])); 
  $Phone = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['phone'])); 
  $Comments = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['comments'])); 
  
  // validation
  $validationOK=true;
  if (!$validationOK) {
    print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
    exit;
  }
  
  // prepare email body text
  $Body = "";
  $Body .= "name: ";
  $Body .= $name;
  $Body .= "\n";
  $Body .= "email: ";
  $Body .= $email;
  $Body .= "\n";
  $Body .= "phone: ";
  $Body .= $phone;
  $Body .= "\n";
  $Body .= "comments: ";
  $Body .= $comments;
  $Body .= "\n";
  
  // send email 
  $success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");
  
  // redirect to success page 
  if ($success){
    print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=contactthanks.php\">";
  }
  else{
    print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  }
  ?>

  
  
  My issues are:
  
  1. I receive the email, but the content is empty
  2. How do I modify the From field so that it would show actual email it came from instead of static email I set..
  3. I would like to get rid of the re-direct page as I'm using this form on the footer of a website..
  
  Thanks a bunch in advance and sorry for very basic question!
  
  
• MegaMike February 20 Permalink

  I'm having the same issue with an empty email.. I get the template printed, but the user input is not printed in the email.
• TT_Mark February 22 Permalink

  1)
  Think about what you're doing.
  
  $Email and $email are not the same. PHP variables are case sensitive.
  
  3) Remove the print which redirects to contactthanks.php