Help with PHP Form

PHP
1

Hello,

I’m using the following code from:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/showphp.asp?filename=demo_form_validation_complete

I need help creating the actual PHP script to send the data to my email account. Any help is appreciated.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.error {color: #FF0000;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<?php
// define variables and set to empty values
$nameErr = $emailErr = $genderErr = $websiteErr = "";
$name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = "";

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")
{
   if (empty($_POST["name"]))
     {$nameErr = "Name is required";}
   else
     {
     $name = test_input($_POST["name"]);
     // check if name only contains letters and whitespace
     if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$name))
       {
       $nameErr = "Only letters and white space allowed";
       }
     }
  
   if (empty($_POST["email"]))
     {$emailErr = "Email is required";}
   else
     {
     $email = test_input($_POST["email"]);
     // check if e-mail address syntax is valid
     if (!preg_match("/([\\w\\-]+\\@[\\w\\-]+\\.[\\w\\-]+)/",$email))
       {
       $emailErr = "Invalid email format";
       }
     }
    
   if (empty($_POST["website"]))
     {$website = "";}
   else
     {
     $website = test_input($_POST["website"]);
     // check if URL address syntax is valid (this regular expression also allows dashes in the URL)
     if (!preg_match("/\\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\\/\\/|www\\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\\/%=~_|]/i",$website))
       {
       $websiteErr = "Invalid URL";
       }
     }

   if (empty($_POST["comment"]))
     {$comment = "";}
   else
     {$comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]);}

   if (empty($_POST["gender"]))
     {$genderErr = "Gender is required";}
   else
     {$gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]);}
}

function test_input($data)
{
     $data = trim($data);
     $data = stripslashes($data);
     $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
     return $data;
}
?>

<h2>PHP Form Validation Example</h2>
<p><span class="error">* required field.</span></p>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
   Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name;?>">
   <span class="error">* <?php echo $nameErr;?></span>
   <br><br>
   E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $email;?>">
   <span class="error">* <?php echo $emailErr;?></span>
   <br><br>
   Website: <input type="text" name="website" value="<?php echo $website;?>">
   <span class="error"><?php echo $websiteErr;?></span>
   <br><br>
   Comment: <textarea name="comment" rows="5" cols="40"><?php echo $comment;?></textarea>
   <br><br>
   Gender:
   <input type="radio" name="gender" <?php if (isset($gender) && $gender=="female") echo "checked";?>  value="female">Female
   <input type="radio" name="gender" <?php if (isset($gender) && $gender=="male") echo "checked";?>  value="male">Male
   <span class="error">* <?php echo $genderErr;?></span>
   <br><br>
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<?php
echo "<h2>Your Input:</h2>";
echo $name;
echo "<br>";
echo $email;
echo "<br>";
echo $website;
echo "<br>";
echo $comment;
echo "<br>";
echo $gender;
?>

</body>
</html>
2

Sending the email can be done with.


$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\
";

if (mail($mailto, $Subject, $msg,  "From: $email$headers","-f$mailto")) {// using if can give error if not working
} 
else {
echo '<p>Mail could not be sent to '.$mailto.' with to the return email address '.$email;
exit;
}
3

I always use PHPMailer in my projects.

That aside though, what error are you currently getting?