Question

I have a template for a website, and I want to customize the message sender there. I saw this form to help out with the implementation of it.

the php file looks like this:

<?php
echo 'testing php'; 
$name = $_POST['name']; // contain name of person
$email = $_POST['email']; // Email address of sender 
$web = $_POST['web']; // Your website URL
$body = $_POST['text']; // Your message 
$receiver = "[e-mail]" ; // hardcorde your email address here - This is the email address that all your feedbacks will be sent to 

$body = "Name:{$name}\n\nWebsite :{$web}\n\nComments:{$body}";
$send = mail($receiver, 'Contact Form Submission', $body, $email);
if ($send) {
    echo 'true'; //if everything is ok,always return true , else ajax submission won't work
}
?>

UPDATE

I’ve managed to call the php file like this:

<form id="form" method="post" action="ajaxSubmit.php" > 
                <fieldset> 
                <label><input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="Name" onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Name'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Name' ) this.value=''"></label>
                  <label><input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="Email" onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Email'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Email' ) this.value=''"></label> 
                <label><input type="text" id="web" name="web" value="Phone" onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Phone'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Phone' ) this.value=''"></label>
                  <label><textarea id="text" name="text" onBlur="if(this.value==''){this.value='Message'}" onFocus="if(this.value=='Message'){this.value=''}">Message</textarea></label> 
                <input type="reset" /> 
                <input type="submit" /> 
                </fieldset> 
                </form>

but when I run this I get teh following ERROR

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 The address is not valid. in C:\wamp\www\forSale\dataTable\ajaxSubmit.php on line 17

but then I check the vallues of the variables, they are correct. what does that mean?

Answer 1

As I said in the chat, you should try by starting from the ground up by first submitting the form normally, then improve it by validating it with javascript and after that try to submit it with ajax.

If you modify the form back to basics you get:

<form id="form" method="post" action="ajaxSubmit.php" >
    <fieldset>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="Name" 
                    onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Name'" 
                    onFocus="if(this.value =='Name' ) this.value=''" />
        <input type="text" id="email" name="email"  value="Email" 
                    onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Email'"
                    onFocus="if(this.value =='Email' ) this.value=''" />
        <input type="text" id="web" name="web"  value="Phone" 
                    onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Phone'" 
                    onFocus="if(this.value =='Phone' ) this.value=''" />
        <textarea id="text" name="text" value="Message"
                    onBlur="if(this.value==''){this.value='Message'}" 
                    onFocus="if(this.value=='Message') this.value=''}" />  
        <input type="reset" />
        <input type="submit" />
    </fieldset>  
</form>