PHP Contact Form - desparate for help

artdir · Sep 13, 2012

I'm a novice at web design, but have successfully posted/hosted a few. Now I have a client who wants a contact form on the site. I have the design part done, but it's the PHP part that I can't understand.

I can't get the info that is typed in on the form to go to the email address listed. It shows the fields of information but no "response" information. And she is waiting for my form to be uploaded to her site so her client can put the input information into a database.

HELP!!!!!

Thanks,
Ron

vansmith · Sep 13, 2012

Google is your friend. See here.

louishen · Sep 13, 2012

This php script is pretty easy to set-up
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artdir · Sep 13, 2012

Thanks

Thanks vansmith and louishen for your quick response. I've been working on this form and studying books/tutorials, etc, etc. to get my one brain cell to understand the process. I will look over your much needed suggestions, and let you know how they work!

Again, THANKS!

Ron

vansmith · Sep 13, 2012

Many basic tasks can be accomplished by using what's available in tutorials online. This will save you the time of writing things from scratch. For example, the contact form you need. Although you certainly could write it from scratch, contact forms are quite common and many tutorials/freely available scripts will help save you some time.

artdir · Sep 13, 2012

Believe me, I've tried ALL the tutorials I could find, but of course, you have to have a good bit of time to devote WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS to the study. And, that doesn't happen when your boss is breathing down your neck to learn something that is foreign.

I appreciate your knowledge. I wish I had started learning years ago, but I'm easily distracted by design instead of the nuts and bolts of the language. And, at my age, design is much easier. LOL

anynamewilldo · Sep 13, 2012

artdir said:
...Now I have a client who wants a contact form on the site...but it's the PHP part that I can't understand.

You really shouldn't have clients.

And she is waiting for my form to be uploaded to her site so her client can put the input information into a database.

If you do the site correctly and professionally, the info from the form will go into the database automatically!! Someone has already typed it in - why should anyone have to type it in again? Screw sending the info via e-mail - insert it directly into the database.

HELP!!!!!

There are MANY examples of how to do this on the web already. Have you looked?

A crude example of code for taking info from a form and putting it into a database. In this example, date_month, date_day and date_year are the names of form elements on the page that called the processing page. Note, this example is crude and incomplete but should get you started.

Code:

<?
{ include 'setup.php' ; } //has database connection/login info

//submitted by form that calls this page - needs more robust untainting
$date_month      = 0 + $_POST["date_month"];
$date_day          = 0 + $_POST["date_day"];
$date_year         = 0 + $_POST["date_year"];

$valueToInsert = $date_month."-".$date_day."-".$date_year ; 

$param_array = array($valueToInsert);
$dbconn = pg_connect($host." ".$port." ".$dbname." ".$user." ".$password); 
$result = pg_query_params($dbconn, $log_ins_stmt, $param_array);  

?>

anynamewilldo · Sep 13, 2012

artdir said:
And, that doesn't happen when your boss is breathing down your neck to learn something that is foreign.

That's why you do it at home.

PHP Contact Form - desparate for help

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