Help w/ comment box using

[sapphirerodent]

Ok. So i'm new to web design, and I've got dreamweaver 8. I'm almost done with this website, and I have a problem. I have the setup for a form:

Name
Email
Phone #
Comments

the code looks like this:

<input type="text" class="form" value="your name"><br>
<br style="line-height:1px ">
<input type="text" class="form" value="phone #"><br>
<input type="text" class="form" value="e-mail"><br>
<br style="line-height:2px ">
<textarea class="textarea" cols="5" rows="5">comments</textarea><br>
<br style="line-height:8px ">
<div style="margin-left:159px "><input name="" type="image" src="images/reset.gif">
<input name="Input" type="image" src="images/submit.gif" style="margin-left:24px ">

Now the reset button works fine. How do I make it when a user clicks the "submit" image that it will put all the information together in an email format and will email to an address that I choose?

Any help here would be great! thanks guys.

[Mrblogs]

What backend are you using?

PHP/ASP or what?

[sapphirerodent]

php

[pcoptimized]

Below is just one way and please note I didn't test for error checking, but should work for you.

First, in your form page you'll want to wrap those input tags with the form tag. IE: <form method="post" name="contactForm" action="formProcess.php"> if you haven't already.
Put 'name="name" and name="phone", etc. in each of your input tags next to your value="...".

In formProcess.php use something like this:

PHP Code:


<?
# strip nasties that somebody could have tried injecting

$name= strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$email = strip_tags($_POST['email']); 
$phone = strip_tags($_POST['phone']); 
$comment = strip_tags($_POST['comment']);

// Email address to send to...
$mailto = "somename@somedomain.com"; //change this to your email address you want the form sent.

//Email address sent from...
$mailhead = "From: $email \n";

// Email subject
$mailsubject = "Contact Form!"; 

// Email body text for notifications
$mailbody = "Here are the details of this email:\n \n \n";
$mailbody .= "$name \n";
$mailbody .= "$email \n";
$mailbody .= "$phone \n";
$mailbody .= "$comment \n";
  
# Double check that email address is good and send form.
if (!eregi("\n",$email)) { 
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
}

# Do some type of redirection or just say "Thank You, form has been submitted"
?>

Much more could be done with it, but this is a simple start that should do the trick.