whats my form action?

Thai-Man-Land · 25-10-2008, 04:26 PM

This is my form:

PHP Code:


<p><strong>Contact form</strong></p>

        <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="send_contact.php">

          <p>Name:            

            <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

          </p>

          <p>&nbsp;</p>

          <p>E-Mail Address: 

            <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />

          </p>

          <p>&nbsp;</p>

          <p>Subject of Enquiry: 

            <input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" />

          </p>

          <p>&nbsp;</p>

          <p>Please enter your message below: </p>

          <p>

            <textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>

          </p>

          <p align="center">

            <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />

            <input type="reset" name="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />

          </p>

        </form>

What would be my form action on send_contact.php?

+rep to all contributors (where possible)

Also - how do I record IP addresses, and show it to users, like on Galaxy-Webhosting?
and how do I make it so you cannot submit the form without the fields filled in?

Sorry for my n00b =[.

TML

Closed by Meti (Forum Moderator): Thread closed due to arguments.

~~Jackboy~~ · 25-10-2008, 04:52 PM

You wanting the form to be emailed to you?

Jxhn · 25-10-2008, 05:11 PM

Clientside form validation:

Code:

<head>
<script>
function validate(){
if(document.form1.name.value==null||document.form1.name.value=''){
alert('Please enter your name.'); return false;
}
if(document.form1.email.value=null||document.form1.email.value=''){
alert('Please enter your email.'); return false;
}
</script>
</head>
...
<form blahblah... onSubmit="return validate()">

Hopefully that should work.

Thai-Man-Land · 25-10-2008, 05:38 PM

yes id like it emailed to [email protected]

Iszak · 25-10-2008, 09:06 PM

I wouldn't recommend using Jxhn javascript, you're best off using server side validation because people can easily disable javascript - and that means they'll need not valid so you'll need to impliment it on server side anyway.

You can attach the IP by appending $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] on the email and that will allow the reader to see who emailed it.

Jxhn · 26-10-2008, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Iszak

I wouldn't recommend using Jxhn javascript, you're best off using server side validation because people can easily disable javascript - and that means they'll need not valid so you'll need to impliment it on server side anyway.

Seriously who'd do that just to send a blank email. It doesn't really matter if they do, it's only for people that forget or don't realise they have to fill out some fields, if they're really determined they'd used an invisible character and unless the php checked for them then it'd get past that aswell.

It's not like his website is gonna get hacked if he doesn't know their name.

And with javascript you can use onBlur to make forms validate when they're deselected.

Iszak · 26-10-2008, 08:20 AM

Well search engines have javascript disabled and many if not most do submit the forms to extend your site index listing - so you'll get fake emails sent from search engines. Also this will allow your site to be susceptible to spamming and I mean, why bother? when it's just as easier to make the backend validate. But hey, up to you, obviously you don't care about spam.

Thai-Man-Land · 26-10-2008, 11:24 AM

Thanks for your help.

I'm not worried about people sending spam emails, its just a website for a client. Its just so people remember to put their email so we ca reply to them.

Dreamweaver dosn't have a tool for creating a form action page, so i'm kind of screwed =[

Jxhn · 27-10-2008, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Iszak

Well search engines have javascript disabled and many if not most do submit the forms to extend your site index listing - so you'll get fake emails sent from search engines. Also this will allow your site to be susceptible to spamming and I mean, why bother? when it's just as easier to make the backend validate. But hey, up to you, obviously you don't care about spam.

Search engines don't submit forms as far as I know, it's never happened on any site I've run and if it did happen thenthe bot would find it's way into insecure sites and end up deleting pages, databases etc.

Also you'd need a captcha sort of thing to stop spam.

Dilore · 27-10-2008, 12:35 PM

Here, it's in PHP so you don't need to play around.

PHP Code:


<b>Form:</b>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['send'])) {
if((empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($subject) || empty($message)) {
echo "One of the fields hasn't been filled in!";
} else {
$name = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$subject = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['subject']));
$message = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$mail = "[email protected]";
$sub = "Email from $name";
$msg = "Here's $name's email:
Name: $name
Email: $email
IP: $ip
Subject: $subject
Message: $message";
$headers = "From: $email";

mail("$mail","$sub","$msg","$headers");

echo "Thanks, your form has been sent, we will reply within 24 hours!";
}
} else {
echo "<form method='post' action='$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]'>
Name:<br>
<input type='text' name='name' size='20'><br>
Email:<br>
<input type='text' name='email' size='20'><br>
Subject:<br>
<input type='text' name='subject' size='20'><br>
Message:<br>
<textarea name='message' cols='45' rows='6'></textarea><br>
<input type='submit' name='send' value='Send'>
</form>";
}
?>

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