Php?

**Jonathan** · 07-05-2003 06:49 PM

Can PHP make forms?

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 12:03 AM

Um, not sure what you mean by that. It can process them, but (X)HTML is the only way to make forms. But you can write HTML via PHP, like this:

PHP Code:


echo ('

       <form action="process.php" method="POST" name="processForm"><div>

         <input type="text" name="fieldName"><br>

         <input type="submit">

       </div></form>

');

[J]ona

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 12:04 AM

does it actually send? not go to the mailto: command?

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 12:11 AM

Originally posted by Jonathan
does it actually send? not go to the mailto: command?

Actually, it sends but isn't processed. What you're asking for is a PHP script that processes forms. Here's an example.

PHP Code:


<?PHP

if(!isset($_GET["node"]) || $_GET["node"] != "process"){

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html lang="en">

<head><title>Form Processing in PHP</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=8859-1">

</head>

<body>

<form action="<?PHP echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?node=process" method="POST"><div>

<input type="text" name="fieldName" value="Enter anything you want!"><br>

<input type="submit">

</div></form>

</body></html>

<?

} else {

mail("you@yoursite.com", "Subject - Email from your site", "Someone submitted the form on your site. They put in this:\n\n".$_POST["fieldName"], "From: Your_site.com");

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html lang="en">

<head><title>Form Processing in PHP</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=8859-1">

</head>

<body>

<p>You emailed:</p>

<p><? echo $_POST["fieldName"]; ?></p>

</body></html>

<? } ?>

[J]ona

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 12:13 AM

re-worded...

If I were to put a php coding on my site for a form, would I be able to see the outcome of the form in my e-mail, if so... what would it look like?

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 12:18 AM

Originally posted by Jonathan
re-worded...

If I were to put a php coding on my site for a form, would I be able to see the outcome of the form in my e-mail, if so... what would it look like?

I've edited my post.

[J]ona

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 12:21 AM

I am soryr, but I am new to all this PHP stuff... I don't ahve a clue what you are saying...

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 12:24 AM

If you copy and paste everything I've posted (and edit the you@address.com part in the mail() function), and save it as "anything.php" and run it on your site, you'll see what the code does.

[J]ona

**pyro** · 07-06-2003 05:58 PM

You might want to use something like this: http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showt...9543#post48748

Then, once you have that set up, just set up your form tag something like this:

<form action="mailer.php" method="post">

where mailer.php is the name you gave the script from the link above.

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 06:22 PM

3 things...

if(!isset($_GET["node"]) || $_GET["node"] != "process"){

What does this mean?
How would I fit other stuff like a checkbox, textarea, etc... what would I have to do from this:

mail("webmaster@crosspoint.org", "Subject - Feedback", "Someone submitted the form on your site. They put in this:\n\n".$_POST["fieldName"], "From: crosspoint.org");
Would I just type that echo $_POST[fieldname] again?

AND how come there are 3 pages on one page?

----This is really helping... just to let you know

PYRO---
How do you work your php script?

**pyro** · 07-06-2003 06:28 PM

Originally posted by Jonathan
PYRO---
How do you work your php script?

Please ask a more specific question. I don't know what part you do not understand. What you do is take the script I linked to, change the info in the top to be what you want, save it as mailer.php (or anything with a .php extention) and link to it in your forms action.

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 06:29 PM

The first if statement is a test to see which command to execute: display the form, or process the form? If the form hasn't been submitted, then you can't process it, but if the form has been submitted, then you can. So, instead of checking to see if(isset($_POST["fieldName"]), we check to see if the query string is nothing. If it is, display the HTML form, if it's not, process the form. That is why I have the action="thephpPage.php?node=process" on it. If I took that off, it wouldn't process the PHP, it'd just show the form again. This also explains the, "three pages on one page." (Which, actually, it's two pages.

)

Adding form elements is done in the same way the first one is done. You add HTML elements to the first part of the PHP code--the one that displays the form--and you name them whatever you like. Then you call them with $_POST["nameOfTheField"] and you can add them to your email and echo them to the next page at will. (This also answers your "third" question.)

[J]ona

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 06:31 PM

How do I adjust what type of form items are on the form, or does it matter... Can I put as many items on there as I would like?

**Jona** · 07-06-2003 06:33 PM

You can put as many form items as you like in there, and it will work. You can put any type of input in there, and it will work.

[J]ona

**Jonathan** · 07-06-2003 06:34 PM

So all I have to do is put $_POST["nameOfTheField"] to make it show up on my form in my e-mail?

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