Home/ Questions/Q 722561
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-14T06:00:17+00:00

I am trying to code an all in one HTML/PHP contact from with error

  • 0

I am trying to code an all in one HTML/PHP contact from with error checking.
When I load this file in my browser there is not HTML. I am a newb php programmer so most likely forgot something pretty obvious.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>All In One Feedback Form</title>
</head>

<body>


<?
$form_block = "
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"ds\">
<form method=\"post\" action=\"$server[PHP_SELF]\">
<p>Your name<br />
<input name=\"sender_name\" type=\"text\" size=30 value=\"$_POST[sender_name]\" /></p>
<p>Email<br  />
<input name=\"sender_email\" type=\"text\" size=30 value=\"$_POST[sender_email]\"/></p>
<p>Message<br />
<textarea name=\"message\" cols=30 rows=5 value=\"$_POST[message]\"></textarea></p>
<input name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send This Form\" />

</form>";

if ($_POST[op] != "ds") {
 //they see this form
 echo "$form_block";

} else if ($_POST[op] == "ds") {


 if ($_POST[sender_name] == "") {
  $name_err = "Please enter your name<br>";
  $send = "no";
}

 if ($_POST[sender_email] == "ds") {
  $email_err = "Please enter your email<br>";
  $send = "no";
}

 if ($_POST[message] == "ds") {
  $message_err = "please enter message<br>";
  $send = "no";
}

 if ($send != "no") {
  //its ok to send
  $to = "jack@xxxxxxx.com.au";
  $subject = "All in one web site feed back";
  $mailheaders = "From: website <some email address@hhhh.com> \n";
  $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[sender_email]\n";
  $msg = "Email sent from this site www.ccccc.com\n";
  $msg .= "Senders name: $_POST[senders_name]\n";
  $msg .= "Sender's E-Mail: $_POST[sender_email]\n";
  $msg .= "Message: $_POST[message]\n\n";
  mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

  echo "<p>Mail has been sent</p>";
}

else if ($send == "no") {
 echo "$name_err";
 echo "$email_err";
 echo "$message_err";
 echo "$form_block";
}

}

?>

</body>
</html>

FYI I am trying the example from a book named PHP 6 Fast and Easy Wed Development

UPDATE!!!

The code I see via view source is this.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>All In One Feedback Form</title>
</head>

<body>



<input type="hidden" name="op" value="ds">
<form method="post" action="">
<p>Your name<br />
<input name="sender_name" type="text" size=30 value="" /></p>

<p>Email<br  />
<input name="sender_email" type="text" size=30 value=""/></p>
<p>Message<br />
<textarea name="message" cols=30 rows=5 value=""></textarea></p>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Send This Form" />

</form></body>
</html>
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    You can use html with php as follows

    <?php if ($_POST[op] != "ds") {  ?>

<input type="hidden" name="op" value="ds">
<form method="post\" action=\"$server[PHP_SELF]\">

    /* your html code here */

    </form>";

<php } else if ($_POST[op] == "ds") {  ?>...............
    • 0