Code-Bin #18 - Contact Form Mailer

Contact Form Mailer
Posted by: Moisea | February 24, 2007 @ 10:36am

Revision 2 - Original post on February 24, 2007 @ 9:10am

PHP Code

<?php session_start(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
 
    <div id="wrapper">
        <div id="main-content">
		<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "somebody@calvarybucyrus.org";
  
  $subject = $_POST['subject'];
  $name= $_POST['name'];
  $email = $_POST['email'];
  $message = $_POST['message'];

$number= $_POST['number']; //security

$body = "$message";
  $continue = "/"; 
  // email validation
  $error_msg='';

if(trim($name)=='')  {$error_msg.="Please enter your Name and/or Surname !<br>";}
if(trim($subject)=='') {$error_msg.="Please enter a subject title !<br>";}

if(trim($email)=='') {$error_msg.="Please enter an email!<br>";}
else {
  // check if email is a valid address in this format username@domain.com
  if(!ereg("[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.[a-z]", $email))
  {$error_msg.="Please enter a valid email address<br>";}
}
  
if(trim($number)==''){$error_msg.="Please enter a (Valid) Security Code !<br>";}
else {// check if numbers matches each other
  $session_num = (int) $_SESSION['number'];
  $post_num = (int) $_POST['number'];
  if (!($session_num == $post_num)) $error_msg.="Wrong value entered!<br>";
}

// display error message if any, if not, proceed to other processing
if(strlen($error_msg) < 1) {
  if(mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
    echo "Thanks <b>$name</b>, <br>Your message has been submitted to <br><b>$to</b></br>!</br>";    //display the message to say that your message was sent to....
    echo '<br><a href="' . $continue . '">Click here to continue.</a>';
  }
  else {
    echo "<font color=red>please try again later</font>";//there was an error with the mail function - please try again later
  }
}
else {echo "<font color=red>$error_msg</font>";}

}

//mail($to, $subject, $body);
?>
	
	  </div>
	 
    </div>
	
		
</div>

<div>
<PRE>
<?php
// For diagnostics

//echo "POST<HR>";
//print_r($_POST);
//echo "SESSION<HR>";
//print_r($_SESSION);
//echo "<HR>";
?>
</PRE>
</DIV>

</body>
</html>

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Author Comments

This is a contact form complete with a session-based captcha validation. Save this file as mailer.php on your webserver.

This code stems from a discussion at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=460628

This is a three-part code project.
Contact Form
Captcha Code

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