I'm using Wamp server to code a website on my PC, I'm following a tutorial on W3Schools for <form> and data collection with PHP (the GET method) and even though I followed the tutorial the code doesn't work.
I researched it a little here but no one seems to be able to answer my problem.
<form action="welcome_get.php">
<section class="contact bg-primary" id="contact">
<div class="container">
<h2>Abonnez vous par mail!</h2>
<input type="email" id="email" size="50" placeholder="Entrez votre adresse e-mail"></input>
</div>
<div class="mail-submit">
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Je m'abonne"></input>
</div>
</section>
</form>
That is the HTML before I send the email address, and this is the simple page to GET the email:
<html>
<body>
Your email address is: <?php echo $_GET["email"]; ?>
</body>
</html>
Yet it doesn't work at all. Here is the tutorial i followed
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
Update
I made a mistake. I was opening the FILE through my browser NOT accessing through Wampserver.
Now the issue is when I click on Submit button (that calls the
<form action="welcome_get.php" method="get">) it downloads the welcome_get.php.
Your form is not set method POST or GET :
<form action="welcome_get.php" method="get">
First :
add method GET
<form action="welcome_get.php" method="get">
Second :
add attributte name in input
<input type="email" name="email" id="email" size="50" placeholder="Entrez votre adresse e-mail"></input>
Final :
make sure your extension is .php not .html
I think your problem is related to your cache browser, what I advise you to use
another browser to test your PHP script or try to clear your cache browser and then it should work.
Related
I have a page that has multiple php forms that send me different informations depending on the user and the form. How do I make php differentiat these? I saw something about the actions and I thought maybe it was like having a separate file, but when I created a "questions.php" and copied and pasted my php code into that and then added "action="questions.php"" to the tag, and ran it just as I had before it didn't work. So what is the correct way to do this?
My code is extremely long and filled with words which is why it would be nice to have separate files for it depending on the form instead of all in the top of my main page.
You could build one page as a standard page. in this page you could include the different forms. See the example below:
<!-- These are just example names -->
<div class="form-1">
<?php include "forms/form-1.php"; ?>
</div>
<div class="form-2">
<?php include "forms/form-2.php"; ?>
</div>
<div class="form-1">
<?php include "forms/form-3.php"; ?>
</div>
If you would like to save data that a user puts in a form in lets say a database you should use the <form method="post"> by adding an action to it. You're asking the form to send the user to another page when the submit button is clicked. an example of a form down below.
<form class="form-1" method="post" action="second_page.php">
<label>Name:
<input type="text" class="input" name="name">
</label>
<label>Email:
<input type="email" class="input" name="email">
</label>
<button type="submit">Send!</button>
</form>
Hope this helps!
I just added a / before the questions.php. apparently it had to do with file path? I don't understand it but it works now.
<form action="questions.php" method="post">
<!-- text boxes to get user inputs-->
<button type="submit" value="submit_btn">click here to go to page in action tag
</button>
</form>
If questions.php file is in same folder action="questions.php" is enough. If its inside 'x' folder, correct path should be given as action="x/questions.php"
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The question is how do i make the submit button work so if they press submit, the ff will be send to my email (ex: example#gmail.com).'
If PHP is needed please post the code so i just gonna paste it on my code :D ty
<div id="forms">
<form class="form">
<p class="name">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Enter Your Name" />
</p>
<p class="email">
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="mail#example.com" />
</p>
<p class="text">
<textarea name="text" placeholder="Describe your logo" /></textarea>
</p>
<p class="submit">
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</p>
</form>
</div>
I cannot find the answer in the existing question of this, So i decided to make another one... the existing is like 2 years ago?
I think you just need to put a mailto action on the <form> tag, i.e.:
<form class="form" action="mailto:someone#example.com">
All you need to do is change your form tag to look like this:
<form action="mailto:address#example.com">
This will send unformatted data to your email address without needing PHP. If you would rather format it in a specific way, then you can use the PHP mail function.
I also removed class="form". Typically this is not needed, but it depends on your reason. If you are using class for CSS you can just reference the element form rather than the class name .form.
I have a form, with some input elements (name, phone, address) like this:
<form method="get" action="<!-- PHP --> echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); <!-- ENDPHP -->" accept-charset="utf-8">
<label>Nombre:</label>
<input name="nombre" id="nombre" type="text" placeholder="Tu nombre">
<label>Teléfono:</label>
<input name="phone" id="tel" type="text" placeholder="666777666">
<label>Dirección:</label>
<input name="address" id="direc" type="text" placeholder="Mi Casa">
<fieldset>
<input value="Enviar" type="submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
After that form, there is a large php code to "post" the obtained data in phpbb (using submit_post() ) and formatting the body and title post.
Then when click on submit I want to validate form data (verifying that the phone is a number, for example) and, if all is ok, continue with the php script to post.
I have searched a bit, and found that is needed action="<!-- PHP --> echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); <!-- ENDPHP -->" but when click on submit, page only reloads, without running the php code just below the form.
PD: this will be a html file to be used as template for phpbb3 so instead of <?php ... ?> is needed to use <!-- PHP --> .... <!-- ENDPHP -->
Any help or code is appreciated
Try this,
You need to enable PHP in templates in Security section of Admin Panel.
Make sure you refresh the template from Admin Panel and clear your browser cache after you've modified the code
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How to determine if user selected a file for file upload?
I would like a simple PHP form validation. My form has two inputs: A link and a file to upload. The form should be submitted only if the link field is filled and the user selected a file to upload. If one of them is or both are false, an alert box should be displayed (like here when you click Upload without selecting a file).
This is my form:
<form action="upload_file.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<p>Link:<br>
<input type="text" name="link" size="50">
</p>
<p>Image:<br>
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="2000000">
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" size="40">
</p>
<div>
<input type="submit" name="upload" value="Upload">
</div>
</form>
I am new to PHP and I have been browsing tutorials for hours now, many of them was of no help or shows the server side validation.
I understand I should start with this:
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
to validate the fields before the form is submitted. I have some basic knowledge of PHP but I cannot figure out how to do this easy or not so easy task.
php is server side. What you need is a client side checker (js, jq ..)
You can perform the check only with php, but on your server, then return to the client the error message or the task complete message. If you want the check to be done client side, you need a client side language to handle it.
PHP is indeed a server-side application and thus cannot perform client-side validation.
If you really want to do client-side validation, you'll probably have to use javascript. Have a look at the jQuery validation plugin. Here is a big demo page showing you some of the possibilities: http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/
For more help and information, also have a look at the jQuery.com/plugins/validation page.
(Note the WARNING at the end of this post)
Example:
(the javascript)
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#commentForm").validate();
});
</script>
(the form)
<form class="cmxform" id="commentForm" method="get" action="">
<fieldset>
<legend>A simple comment form with submit validation and default messages</legend>
<p>
<label for="cname">Name</label>
<em>*</em><input id="cname" name="name" size="25" class="required" minlength="2" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="cemail">E-Mail</label>
<em>*</em><input id="cemail" name="email" size="25" class="required email" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="curl">URL</label>
<em> </em><input id="curl" name="url" size="25" class="url" value="" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="ccomment">Your comment</label>
<em>*</em><textarea id="ccomment" name="comment" cols="22" class="required"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
WARNING
Please keep in mind that javascript, being client-side, runs on the client's computer. Don't rely on javascript validation alone. Anyone can disable javascript and insert 'wrong' values in your form.
In case of form it's best to do client side validation using some javascript library like jQuery. Check out this jQuery tool for form validation.
For server side validation, check out this link. It may help you.
Validation should be done on server side ALWAYS. You can add client minor validation also as a confort for the user with javascript.
Here some basic code to show a message if fields empty using minor validation:
<input type="submit" name="upload" value="Upload" onclick="var ref = document.getElementById('file'); if ( ref.length == 0 ){ alert( 'select file' ); return false; } ref = document.getElementById( 'textfieldid' ); if ( ref.value.length == 0 ){ alert( 'fill link, better use a regexp to match a url but this another store' ); return false; }">
For client side validation of "File upload" field, refer following plug-in :
http://adamsanderson.github.com/jQuery-File-Validator/
It is useful. I have tried it.
I'd like to use a contact form for a website I'm creating, but PHP is not an option since the client doesn't wish to use it. Is there a clever way to work around this somehow, by sending email parameters (which is non-standard) perhaps, or by using an external contact form? Are there any good ones that don't use advertising and are easily modified to a different language for example?
Thank you.
Check out formspree.
https://github.com/asm-products/formspree
For action you simply put:
<form action="http://formspree.io/you#email.com" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="email" name="_replyto">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
After verifying your email after the first send this will email you the contents of the form. One thing to keep in mind is that this will take the input names. If you do not include input names it won't send you that form field.
There are hundreds of embeddable (most likely iframe-based) solutions for contact forms, which would enable you to get around using a server-side language like PHP. Just a quick google search will give you some.
Alternatively, you could make a form in HTML, and have a submit button which is actually a mailto: link, and you modify the parameters of that mailto as your form inputs change.
The only downside of this is that it's not as convenient for the user, as it then opens up their email client and they have to actually send it.
Personally, I would try and persuade the client, but if that isn't possible, then those are your options.
Check out www.enformed.io.
Has a couple of interesting options that formspree does not have( Like redirect out of the box, and a html email editor).
I used Formspree but formspree doesn't allow ajax unless you have Gold Version. It doesn't work on the basic so I am planning on making an account on enformed.io. I still haven't used it but I have heard that t is very good. You can also use alerts fro success and error messages.
<form style="margin-left: 6%;" class="email" action="https://www.enformed.io/YOUR_TOKEN" method="post">
<p>Name:</p>
<input type="text" name="first_name" />
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<p>E-mail:</p>
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<input type="text" name="email" />
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<p>Subject:</p>
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<input type="text" name="subject" />
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<p>Message:</p>
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<div id="margin" style="height: 0.5%;"></div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit Form</button>
</form>
Would something as simple as a mailto form work?