Help making a Q&A Form

[sava700]

I'm looking for someone that knows how to setup a basic HTML layout that will use a php file or not in which there will be 10 Questions. The boxes for text will be of enough to put in a few sentences as needed to place answers in and once these answers are all filled in click Submit and it sends the questions along side the results to an email of my choice.

I've set up a few feedback forms from templates I've found online but editing them so far has drove me nuts as the form doesn't seem to be sending. If you know how to do this please PM me...you can just put in temp questions and a temp email I'll edit them later.

I only need a total of 10 Question slots

This is basically going to be used on a site that has full up to date php versions etc etc..so don't worry about that.

Thanks

Here is the code if someone can see what is wrong.

This is the html file named - Tier2Application.html

<form name="htmlform" method="post" action="html_form_send.php">
<table width="450px">

<tbody><tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="age">What is your age? </label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <input type="text" name="age" maxlength="50" size="30">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign="top" "="">
  <label for="Time_Zone">What Time Zone/Country do you live in? </label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <input type="text" name="Time_Zone" maxlength="50" size="30">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="Extra_abilities">What other servers do you currently have extra abilities with ie: VIP, Donator, Admin etc etc? </label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea type="text" name="Extra_abilities" maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="position">Tell us why you think you should hold this position.</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="position" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="dedicate">How much time do you dedicate to our Servers in a week?</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <input  name="dedicate" maxlength="70" size="30">
</td>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="improve">Tell us how you could help us to improve our community and servers.</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="improve" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="Opinion">What do you think of the servers at this time?</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="Opinion" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="Duration">How long have you been a part of this function?</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="Duration" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="Rep_Thread">Do you have a site? If so please provide URL.</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="Rep_Thread" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
  <label for="populate">What suggestions would you give to enhance the servers to help populate them more?</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
  <textarea  type="text" name="populate" maxlength="1000" cols="30" rows="6"><textarea>
</td>
</tr>

</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">   ( <a href="http://www.none.com">none</a> )
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
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here is the php file named html_form_send.php

[CODE]
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

// CHANGE THE TWO LINES BELOW
$webmaster_email = "[email protected]";

$email_subject = "Tier2 Application";


function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.

";
echo $error."

";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.

";
die();
}

// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['age']) ||
!isset($_POST['Time_Zone']) ||
!isset($_POST['Extra_abilities']) ||
!isset($_POST['position']) ||
!isset($_POST['dedicate']) ||
!isset($_POST['improve']) ||
!isset($_POST['Opinion']) ||
!isset($_POST['Duration']) ||
!isset($_POST['Rep_Thread']) ||
!isset($_POST['populate'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}

$age = $_POST['age']; // required
$Time_Zone = $_POST['Time_Zone']; // required
$Extra_abilities = $_POST['Extra_abilities']; // required
$position = $_POST['position']; // required
$dedicate = $_POST['dedicate']; // required
$improve = $_POST['improve']; // required
$Opinion = $_POST['Opinion']; // required
$Duration = $_POST['Duration']; // required
$Rep_Thread = $_POST['Rep_Thread']; // required
$populate = $_POST['populate']; // required

$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';[/size][/font]
[font="Verdana"][size="2"] }
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}

$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($Time_Zone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "position: ".clean_string($position)."\n";
$email_message .= "dedicate: ".clean_string($dedicate)."\n";
$email_message .= "improve: ".clean_string($improve)."\n";
$email_message .= "Opinion: ".clean_string($Opinion)."\n";
$email_message .= "Duration: ".clean_string($Duration)."\n";
$email_message .= "Rep_Thread: ".clean_string($Rep_Thread)."\n";
$email_message .= "populate: ".clean_string($populate)."\n";

// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>

<!-- place your own success html below -->

Thank you for the application. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php
die();
?>
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Be sure to remove this from the code above at the bottom cause for some stupid reason it keeps adding it to the code

/size /font font=verdana size=2 ALL THIS WITHOUT THE BRACKETS...damn stuff!!</textarea></td></tr></tbody></table></form>

[sava700]

damn nobody?

[Matthew_Thepc]

I'm looking through it, but could you say exactly what problems you're having with it? is the email just not sending, or are you getting an error or what?

EDIT: try changing "@mail(blahblahblah);" to just "mail(blahblahblah);" (remove the @ sign). that way you'll see any errors that happen :)

Edited May 26, 2012 by Matthew_Thepc

[sava700]

I'm looking through it, but could you say exactly what problems you're having with it? is the email just not sending, or are you getting an error or what?

yeah email is not sending...no error just not sending

[Matthew_Thepc]

• look through all the $_POST['something'] and make sure that everything there is spelt exactly the same as the "name" property in your HTML form
  
• take away the "@" from before mail so you'll know if there are any errors
  
• move the } after the $email_exp line to right before the first ?> (the one after the mail line, not the one after the die())
  
• I'd suggest changing all the $variable = something; to lowercase so you don't get mixed up (ex. change like 26 from $Rep_Thread = $_POST['Rep_Thread']; to $rep_thread = $_POST['Rep_Thread']; and then changing all instances of $Rep_Thread to $rep_thread (easily done through find & replace). This isn't necessary, but it's nice to have all of your code either capitalized or non-capitalized.
  

If none of this works, make SURE you've taken away the @ from before mail( and then check again to see if there are any errors

[sava700]

• look through all the $_POST['something'] and make sure that everything there is spelt exactly the same as the "name" property in your HTML form
  
• take away the "@" from before mail so you'll know if there are any errors
  
• move the } after the $email_exp line to right before the first ?> (the one after the mail line, not the one after the die())
  
• I'd suggest changing all the $variable = something; to lowercase so you don't get mixed up (ex. change like 26 from $Rep_Thread = $_POST['Rep_Thread']; to $rep_thread = $_POST['Rep_Thread']; and then changing all instances of $Rep_Thread to $rep_thread (easily done through find & replace). This isn't necessary, but it's nice to have all of your code either capitalized or non-capitalized.
  

If none of this works, make SURE you've taken away the @ from before mail( and then check again to see if there are any errors

Ok I've gone thru and did each of these... did find some errors in wording for what I used on the names of each instance but also went and changed the caps or removed them and double checked all the spelling I don't see any issues. I removed the @ but nothing showed of an error and just processed it with the "Thanks" message at the top of the next screen like nothing happened but no email sent.

Suggestions?

[sava700]

anyone else give this a look?

[Tjcool007]

Where are $email_from and $email_to coming from? I don't see them being filled up anywhere.

Also the if($_POST['email']) on the top: There's no input named email in your form, so it'll never evaluate to true.

The @mail call is outside that if though, so it'll try sending regardless. (Well you fixed this one if you moved the } as said above)

Also the mail function returns false if there are errors with the message to send. You can check for that :)

[sava700]

Where are $email_from and $email_to coming from? I don't see them being filled up anywhere.

Also the if($_POST['email']) on the top: There's no input named email in your form, so it'll never evaluate to true.

The @mail call is outside that if though, so it'll try sending regardless. (Well you fixed this one if you moved the } as said above)

Also the mail function returns false if there are errors with the message to send. You can check for that :)

Yeah I did the change of moving the } and the mail function isnt' returning any errors when sent...it just processes saying "Thanks for sending blah blah" but no email received.

[KillTheIrishman]

Have you thought of using Frontpage? Just a thought.

[Seabizkit]

Ok.... I would like to think of myself as being really good with this kind of stuff.

My suggestion would be make it simple...

strip everything you don't need.

That way you will find the problem/error faster and then just fix in the longer version.

I believe the issue is that the function is never call... i.e. it will ever evaluate to true if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

like someone else pointed out.

Reason: There is no form element called email being sent, unless i missed it but i did a find on this page.

Also email is a reserved word!!! this has bitten me so many times its not funny.... now when it comes to email/e-mail I always prefix or suffix it.

so change email to something like QandA_email... your probably find it start working.

Remember this

form elements are identified by their name not there ID.... well i could stand corrected... but it is the name in some of my stuff...

I usually include both.

so

<input id="QandA_email" type="text" name="QandA_email" class="default_email" value="" placeholder="Email Address" />

remember to change if(isset($_POST['email'])) { to if(isset($_POST['QandA_email'])) {

also i always do this for debugging.

$QandA_email = $_POST['QandA_email']

echo $QandA_email;

if(QandA_email) {

}

PS!!! my PHP is super rusty... so i might be off.... I'm into C# now

hope this helps

after re-reading it

// create email headers

$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".

'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .

'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

?>

i think your problem is most likely here.

as someone already pointed out .$email_from is never set

$email_from = $_POST['QandA_email']

or

$email_from = $_POST['email_from '] as long as you don't use plain email or e-mail

remember the form must correspond to this

as someone said ... sozs been re-reading the code..

$email_to

this is not set either so

$email_to = "[email protected]";

so final conclusion:

• Add form element name it "email_to"
  
• add this before the if, $email_to = $_POST['email_to']
  
• then evaluate if($email_to).....
  

the above gets tricky but for the stakes of keeping it simple.

you may have to check this as i would write this in c# as if ($email_to != "").

tricky?... is it an e-mail... validation needed here.. also in PHP does no empty string evaluate to false...?

• inside the if add $email_from = "[email protected]"
  

[sava700]

I fixed it.. I went with this more simple layout for php

<?PHP
    $to = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "Form App";
    $headers = "From: Form App";
    $forward = 0;
    $location = "";

    $date = date ("l, F jS, Y");
    $time = date ("h:i A");

    $msg = "Below is the result of a form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n";

    if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {
	    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
		    $msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n";
	    }
    }
    else {
	    foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
		    $msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n";
	    }
    }

    mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
    if ($forward == 1) {
	    header ("Location:$location");
    }
    else {
	    echo "Thank you for submitting the form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";
    }

    ?>
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Thanks to all that helped!

[Seabizkit]

Great stuff... that you got it stored...

Again don't know too much about PHP..

But to me...this is retarded being used here...

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {

$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n";

}

}

else {

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {

$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n";

}

}

1.You are using code that should be placed in a area where it can be reused.

2.You are added extra complexity which isn't needed.

3.You are adding addition overhead.

4.You only go to this code on a Form post. (there's no point to the - " foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) { " here)

5.You know the values and they could be type smart - how would you validate anything?!!!

I would of done this.

<?PHP

//comment (lol don't know what a comment syntax is in PHP anymore)

//we are comming from POST, check we have an e-mail to send to.

$to = $_POST['email_to']

//if no to email

if($to == "")

{

$msg = "e-mail not supplied"

echo $msg

return //Fail

} //assign all the form values //ect... add as needed

$age = $_POST['age']

$timezone = $_POST['timezone']

$comment= $_POST['comment']

//setup Mail stuff

$subject = "Form App";

$headers = "From: Form App";

$forward = 0;

$location = "";

// this PHP I don't know.... but i guess date and time...

// this should be commented out as its never used.

$date = date ("l, F jS, Y");

$time = date ("h:i A");

//this is never used... i presume this is meant to be in the last else

// i would swop out the messages tho

$msg = "Below is the result of a form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n";

//like

$msg = "Thank you for submitting the form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";

//i would also comment out the if and remove code you are not using.

//ie do you use the forward stuff...

// if not remove the if and just have it run

//mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

//echo msg;

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

if ($forward == 1) { header ("Location:$location"); }

else {

echo "Thank you for submitting the form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";

echo msg;

}

?>

hope this helps...