php Submit-button error

rob.crusnik · March 7, 2018

I made a website using HTML and some javascript. I tried to make a contact form with PHP, but something goes wrong when submitting and I don't understand why.
I followed a tutorial and can't see any mistakes (first time using PHP, so there might be a lot I can't see).

Here is the HTML-code and PHP-file. I also uploaded the original, in case you prefer to open it that way..

<!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>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sample.css">
	<style type="text/css" media="all">
		@import "sample.css";
	</style>
    
<title>Yan Zhou | CONTACT</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header_home"></div>
        <div id="navigatie">
        <ul>
            <li id="linkabout"><a href="Yan Zhou - About.html"><img src="images/link_about.png" alt="ABOUT"></a></li>
            <li id="linkportfolio"><a href="Yan Zhou - Portfolio.html"><img src="images/link_portfolio.png" alt="PORTFOLIO"></a></li>
            <li id="linkcontact"><a href="Yan Zhou - Contact.html"><img src="images/link_contact.png" alt="CONTACT"></a></li>
        </ul>
        </div>
<div id="supportingText">
   <form action="contact_form.php">

    <label for="name">Name</label>
    <input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="I will need your name for contacting you. ^^">

    <label for="company">Company</label>
    <input type="text" id="company" name="company" placeholder="If you contact me on behalf of a company, type it here. Otherwise type 'None'.">
    
    <label for="email">Email</label>
    <input type="text" id="email" name="email" placeholder="How else could I answer you?">

    <label for="message">Message</label>
    <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="Who are you, where are you from, what do you wish to say? :-)" style="height:200px">
    </textarea>

    <input type="submit" value="Submit">

  </form>
 </div>



</body></html>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
 
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "rakkermans@hotmail.com";
    $email_subject = "Yan Zhou Website - Contactformulier";
 
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "I'm sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please fix these errors and retry submitting.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
 
 
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['company']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['message'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
    }
 
     
 
    $name = $_POST['name']; // required
    $company = $_POST['company']; // required
    $email = $_POST['email']; // required
    $message = $_POST['message']; // required
 
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
 
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
 
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$company)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Company you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
  if(strlen($message) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The message you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
 
    $email = "Form details below.\n\n";
 
     
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
 
     
 
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
 
?>
 

<?php ?>

The following error message appears

Quote

"; echo "Please fix these errors and retry submitting.

"; die(); } // validation expected data exists if(!isset($_POST['name']) || !isset($_POST['company']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['message'])) { died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.'); } $name = $_POST['name']; // required $company = $_POST['company']; // required $email = $_POST['email']; // required $message = $_POST['message']; // required $error_message = ""; $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/'; if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email)) { $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) { $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(!preg_match($string_exp,$company)) { $error_message .= 'The Company you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(strlen($message) < 2) { $error_message .= 'The message you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(strlen($error_message) > 0) { died($error_message); } $email = "Form details below.\n\n"; function clean_string($string) { $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); return str_replace($bad,"",$string); } $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n"; $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email)."\n"; $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n"; ?>

Thanks for looking into it!

Rob

Yan Zhou - Contact.html

contact_form.php

Ingolme · March 7, 2018

It looks like you're not running the code on a server that supports PHP.

rob.crusnik · March 7, 2018

9 hours ago, Ingolme said:

It looks like you're not running the code on a server that supports PHP.

Thanks, I'll look into it. How do I test a website with PHP without putting it online on a server?
There is no hurry, it's just some hobby-stuff.

dsonesuk · March 7, 2018

There are online php testing websites, but limited to page output, no acces to folders etc outside that script .

justsomeguy · March 7, 2018

If you want to test locally, you can download a program like XAMPP that includes a web server, PHP, MySQL, etc and just have a web server running on your local machine where you can test your code.

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