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How to stop form from sending email more times after initial success.
First of all, i have structured my website using directories. So basically every page is a directory and in that directory, i have a file called index.php.
I have four contact forms on my site, and at the moment, the seem to all work using the hnadler.php file. The handler file validates the data, checks the form-id posted and based on that, it routes the email appropraitely. A success message is displayed if successfully sent. However, my current implimentation is flawed in that if the user refreshes, another mail is sent. How can i solve this with my existing code? Thank you
//handler.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//carry out validation
if(!isset($hasError)) {
//check the form id posted and set email address in $emailTo accordingly
$body = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nEnquiry: $enquiry";
$headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email;
mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
$emailSent = true;
}
}
//index.php
<?php if(isset($hasError)) { ?>
<p class="error">Please make sure you have filled all fields with valid information. Thank you.</p>
<?php } ?>
<?php if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true) { ?>
<p><strong>Your enquiry was sent successfully.</strong></p>
<p>Thank you for your enquiry! Your email was successfully sent and we will be in touch with you promptly.</p>
<?php }; ?>
<form id="contactform" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<fieldset>
<legend>Enquiry form</legend>
<label for="name">Name:</label><input type="text" size="50" name="name" id="name" value="" class="required" />
<label for="email">Email:</label><input type="text" size="50" name="email" id="email" value="" class="required email" />
<label for="enquiry">Enquiry:</label><textarea rows="5" cols="20" name="enquiry" id="enquiry" class="required"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit enquiry" class="curved-btn"></input>
<input type="hidden" id="form-id" name="form-id" value="general"></input>
</fieldset>
</form>
?>
The problem is that you aren't actually submitting to handler.php because of this:
<form id="contactform" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
Change it to this:
<form id="contactform" method="post" action="handler.php">
And put your send e-mail code inside of handler.php. You will also need to put a redirect in there to get them back to a page. There are other ways to go about this, but this is how I would do it.
The browser will/can repost the data on refresh, so it will look like a new request.
A quick fix is to redirect after the form submission:
header("Location: success.php");
That way if the refresh they refresh the success page, not the page you posted to.
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I made a PHP contact form which sends an email to me.
And I would like to inform the user that the message had been sent after refreshing the page.
I was able to make a pop up only before refreshed the page, with this the problem was that if the user leaves the page before clicking ok, the message won't be sent.
This is my current code:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$mailFrom=$_POST['mail'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
$mailTo = "something#something.org";
$headers = "From: ".$mailFrom;
$txt ="You have received an e-mail from".$name.".\n\n" .$message;
if ($name != '' && $mailFrom != '') {
if (mail ($mailTo, $subject, $message, $mailFrom)) {
echo '<p>Your message has been sent.</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again.</p>';
}
} else {
echo '<p>You need to fill in all required fields.</p>';
}
}
mail($mailTo,$subject,$txt,$headers);
header("Location: index.php") ;
?>
HTML:
<div class="modal-bg">
<div class="modal">
<form class="contact-form" action="contactform.php" method="post">
<h2>Contact Us!</h2>
<label for="name">Name: </label> </br>
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name"> </br>
<label for="email">E-mail</label> </br>
<input type="text" name="mail" placeholder="Your e-mail"> </br>
<label for="subject">Subject: </label> </br>
<input type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject"> </br>
<label for="message">Message: </label> </br>
<textarea name="message" class="message" placeholder="Message" rows="15" cols="50"></textarea> </br>
<button type="submit" name="submit"> SEND </button>
</form>
<span class="modal-close">X</span>
</div>
</div>
I used a different method. Made a PHP page which says it is successful and redirects it after 5 seconds
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://address.com">
</head>
<body>
<div id="messagesent">
<p>Message has been sent successfully<p>
<p> This page will be redirect after 5 seconds. Please wait ...<p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Ok, so what you have there is something i have had trouble with in the past: you are redirecting with a PHP header method, which is part of a (mostly) server side language which ends all of its functions as soon as the page is loaded: what i mean by this is that the code you have there will redirect the user out of your page before alerts or messages can be given out.
What i suggest you do is a little something like this in PHP:
$alert = "this is an alert and gets set whenever something happens";
//instead of an alert you could also create the paragraph with a button which triggers the redirect.
echo
"
<script>
window.onload = function(){alert('$alert');}
//this will fire the alert and stop any other thing from happening before the alert is closed
window.location.href = "https://target_page.com";
//this redirects the user to the wanted page, NB: do use href as other methods may directly redirect without waiting for the alert to display
</script>
";
Let me know if this is what you were looking for :)
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So here is the problem I am facing. I have created a pretty simple web form:
<form method="post" action="#">
<div class="field"> <label for="name">Name</label>
<input name="name" id="name" type="text"> </div>
<div class="field"> <label for="email">Email</label> <input
name="email" id="email" type="email"> </div>
<div class="field"> <label for="message">Message</label> <textarea
name="message" id="message" rows="4"></textarea> </div>
<ul class="actions">
<li><input value="Send Message" type="submit"></li>
</ul>
</form>
I need to know how I can use this form to send data inputed by the user to my email address admin#nue-tech.uk I am aware this can be done in PHP but am unsure how to approach this as I am unfamilliar with PHP. If someone could please point me in the right direction as to how this can be done, and also where I should place the PHP file relative to this, that'd be awesome!
You could copy the code below and paste it in your HTML file below your html. In your html you set the action attribute empty. Don't forget to change your file extension to .php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "admin#nue-tech.uk";
$from = $_POST['email'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = "Blablabla"; //Write whatever you want here
$message = $name . "wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
header('location: thank-you.html'); //redirects the user to another page if the mail was send succesfully
} else {
header('location: contact.html'); //if it was not send succesfully it redirects to the contact page again
exit(0);
}
?>
In
header('location: contact.html');
you could also use
echo "Something went wrong. Try again later"
or something simular.
I would highly recommend you search and learn on W3Cschools or at php.net.
Given a standard html form such as the one below;
<form method="post" action=<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>>
<div class="row half">
<div class="6u"><input type="text" placeholder="Name" name="name" /></div>
<div class="6u"><input type="text" placeholder="Email" name="email" /></div>
</div>
<div class="row half">
<div class="12u"><textarea name="message" placeholder="Message" name="message"></textarea></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="12u">
<ul class="actions">
<li><input type="submit" class="button" value="Send Message" name="submit" /></li>
<li><input type="reset" class="button alt" value="Clear Form" name="clear"/></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</form>
And the following php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "enquiries#appcloudkent.com"; // this is your Email address
$from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = "Website Enquiry";
$message = $name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
$headers2 = "From:" . $to;
if(isValidString($from) && isValidString($name) && isValidString($message)){
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
}
}
It is possible to send an email, however, this approach causes a couple of problems. Because my form is at the bottom of the page, when send is clicked the page is redirected back and the focus goes back to the top of the page.
What is the correct way to provide adequate user feedback to let the user know the email was sent, is it possible to navigate back to the page and automatically scroll to the bottom - allowing me to change the send button to green or something?
Failing that, is there a better approach to doing this?
Thanks
Add an anchor link before your form.
<a id="anchorName"></a>
Post your form to the anchor.
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>#anchorName">
The form action should point to the page itself (like it does in your example) so you can display error messages from validation (like you don't).
If the form is not at the top of your page you can add an anchor:
<h2><a name="theForm">The form</a></h2>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>#theForm">
If the form is processed properly (=mail sent), it is good practice to redirect to another page, showing a success message. So pressing F5 doesn't submit the form again (and send another mail).
if (mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
// redirect to page showing success message and exit script
} else {
// redirect to page showing error message and exit script
}
I usually redirect to the same page again, but attach an param ($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"].'?mail_success=1') and then inside the template I decide whether to show the success message, error message or the form:
if (isset($_REQUEST['mail_success'])) {
// show success message
} elseif (isset($_REQUEST['mail_error'])) {
// show error message, technical issues, try again bla bla
} else {
// show the form (including validation errors if necessary)
}
You could submit the form using an XMLHttpRequest, and cancel the default action of pressing submit. jQuery's .post() and event.preventDefault() methods are particularly good at that.
My issue: I'm trying to make this form both email the form data and redirect to download page using php script (i.e.: One click = 2 actions). I searched the boards and didn't really find anything similar to what I am trying to do. I had tried several options code wise, but it won't send the email at all. What am I doing wrong?
code:
form:
<form id="myform">
<form method="get" action="action/php">
<fieldset><center>
<h3>DOWNLOAD DVD</h3>
<p> Enter your full name and email and then press Download DVD. </p>
<p><br>
<label>Enter Your Name *</label>
<input type="text" name="name" pattern="[a-zA-Z ]{5,}" maxlength="30" />
</p>
<p>
<label>Enter Your Email *</label>
<input type="email" name="email" required />
</p>
<button type="submit" id="submit-myform"; class="submit" value="Submit" name="myform_submit">Download DVD</button>
<button type="reset">Reset</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
php:
<?PHP
if(isset($_POST['myform_submit']) && $_POST['myform_submit'] == "Submit"){
echo "http://www.website.com";
}else {
mail( "info#website.com", "Landing Page Download",
$name, "From: $email" );
}
?>
Again ... The download content comes up nicely. But the email will not send.
I think you've got your if statement mixed up. Currently it's saying if the form is submitted, then print a URL to the screen, otherwise send an email but from what you've said you want to redirect and send an email. Try this:
if(isset($_POST['myform_submit'])) {
$send = mail( "info#website.com", "Landing Page Download", $_POST['name'], "From: " . $_POST['email'] );
if($send) {
header("Location: http://www.website.com");
} else {
echo 'Error sending email!';
}
}
Problem number 2 is you have nested forms. Not sure why you're doing this, but it's against HTML spec and will probably cause your form data not to get sent as it should. Remove the outer form. Here's line 3 of the HTML3(old!) spec:
Note you are not allowed to nest FORM elements!
Problem number 3, you're setting your form method as GET and then trying to access POST variables. Problem 3.5, your action is action/php - thats not a filename (unless you have an index.php file inside a folder called php, inside a folder called action). Change all this to:
<form method="post" id="myform" action="action.php">
Note: header("Location: [url]") sends a redirect header to your browser, so you are redirected to the target URL. If you simply want to display the URL (like in your question) then continue to just echo it.
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I have a decent understanding of HTML and CSS but completely novice when it comes to PHP. I've scouted the net and tried this out with multiple different tutorials, however I can't seem to tailor the php code to work with my contact page's email form. (www.richseeley.com/contact)
Ultimately, I would like this form to confirm the message being sent with a pop up window, without leaving the page, but so far I can't even get it to work in the most basic sense.
At present, it is echoing the "thank you for using our mail form", however the email isn't sending.
Here is the html coding for my contact form:
<div id="form-main">
<div id="form-div">
<form class="form" id="form1" action="scripts/test.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input name="name" type="text" class="feedback-input" placeholder="Name" id="name" />
<input name="email" type="text" class="feedback-input" id="email" placeholder="Email" />
<textarea name="message" class="feedback-input" id="message" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="SEND" id="button-blue"/>
</form>
</div>
</div>
And here is the PHP code that I have most recently been trying to work with:
<?php
//send email
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail("r*******#gmail.com", $name,
$message, "From:" . $email);
echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
?>
I appreciate that this is a fairly simple problem I am trying to solve, but I've spent several hours with no success, and I really don't want to have to compromise the design of my work/website, and end up using something less stylised, as a basic tutorial would provide.
The only way I could think of doing it would be something like:
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
{
echo <p>Are you sure you want to do this?</p>
<form action="send_mail.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="ok" value="OK" />
<input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel" />
</form>
?>
and in send_mail.php:
<?php>
//send email
if (isset($_POST['ok'])) {
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail("richsee******#****.com", $name,
$message, "From:" . $email);
echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
}
}
if (isset($_POST['cancel'])) {
header('Location: didnt_confirm.html");
}
?>
Also, your php seems wrong and vulnerable, but all you're asking is for a confirmation ;)
If you're concerned about vulnerability (header injections), you can read this.