Email Form for Contact Us page

**mightyjoeape** · 05-18-2009, 11:00 PM

I would like an email form to pop up after clicking a link. I browsed some other threads and people were repeatedly saying that the form should be server based and not client based because of bots and other issues. I was wondering if this form should be ASP or something else? I really don't know any code other than html, css, and I understand pre-made javascript codes, but can't write them. Any help on this issue would be most appreciated! I am also not the most familiar with sever-side options, so please be ridiculously thorough haha. THANKS!

**mightyjoeape** · 05-20-2009, 03:52 PM

Does anyone have any suggestions? I need to get this site finished soon...

**stevej** · 05-20-2009, 05:37 PM

Well, the people giving advice are right on the server-side issue, but they are, I believe, wrong on the ASP choice. My suggestion: use PHP! A quick Google search will bring up a lot of results, but if you need some code I suppose I could post some as well.

- Steve

**Kulrom** · 05-30-2009, 12:14 PM

As per the popup form it's ok you can use pure html and css but for sending an email you need to submit the form to another page (server-side code) or you can use AJAX (xmlhttp) object to proceed the entries to the server.

**harish** · 06-01-2009, 03:28 AM

E-mail Form Code (contact.php)

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Email Form </title>
</head>
<body>

 <form method="post" action="sendeail.php">

<!-- DO NOT change ANY of the php sections -->
<?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?>

<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<?php echo $ipi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="<?php echo $httprefi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="<?php echo $httpagenti ?>" />


Your Name: <br />
 <input type="text" name="visitor" size="35" />
<br />
Your Email:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitormail" size="35" />
 <br /> <br />
  <br />
Attention:<br />
<select name="attn" size="1">
<option value=" Sales n Billing ">Sales n Billing  </option> 
<option value=" General Support ">General Support </option> 
<option value=" Technical Support ">Technical Support </option> 
<option value=" Webmaster ">Webmaster </option> 
</select>
<br /><br />
Mail Message:
<br />
<textarea name="notes" rows="4" cols="40"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Send Mail" />
<br />
Free Code at: <a href="http://www.ibdhost.com/contact/">ibdhost.com/contact/</a>
 </form>
 
</body>
</html>

Code for sendeail.php

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 
<title>Sendemail Script</title>
</head>
<body>

 <!-- Reminder: Add the link for the 'next page' (at the bottom)   --> 
<!-- Reminder: Change 'YourEmail' to Your real email  -->  

<?php

$ip = $_POST['ip']; 
$httpref = $_POST['httpref']; 
$httpagent = $_POST['httpagent']; 
$visitor = $_POST['visitor']; 
$visitormail = $_POST['visitormail']; 
$notes = $_POST['notes'];
$attn = $_POST['attn'];
 
 
if (eregi('http:', $notes)) {
    die ("Do NOT try that! ! ");
}
 if(!$visitormail == "" && (!strstr($visitormail,"@") || !strstr($visitormail,"."))) 
 {
 echo "<h2>Use Back - Enter valid e-mail</h2>\n"; 
$badinput = "<h2>Feedback was NOT submitted</h2>\n";
echo $badinput;
die ("Go back! ! ");
}

if(empty($visitor) || empty($visitormail) || empty($notes )) {
echo "<h2>Use Back - fill in all fields</h2>\n";
die ("Use back! ! "); 
 }
        
$todayis = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;

 $attn = $attn ; 
$subject = $attn; 
 
 $notes = stripcslashes($notes); 

 $message = " $todayis [EST] \n
Attention: $attn \n
Message: $notes \n 
From: $visitor ($visitormail)\n
Additional Info : IP = $ip \n
Browser Info: $httpagent \n
Referral :  $httpref \n
";

 $from = "From: $visitormail\r\n";

 
 mail("YourEmail", $subject, $message, $from);

  ?>
    
<p align="center">
Date: <?php echo $todayis ?> 
<br />
Thank You : <?php echo $visitor ?> ( <?php echo $visitormail ?> ) 
<br />
 
Attention: <?php echo $attn ?>
<br /> 
Message:<br /> 
<?php $notesout = str_replace("\r", "<br/>", $notes); 
echo $notesout; ?> 
<br />
<?php echo $ip ?> 

<br /><br />
<a href="contact.php"> Next Page  </a> 
</p> 

</body>
</html>

**mightyjoeape** · 06-01-2009, 12:19 PM

That looks like the code I did use- I was asking specifically about where to find the code that brings up the "apple mail" interface. Thanks.