So I'm using PHP for the first time, and have written this reasonably simple contact form, but it won't work and I can't for the life of me work out why. I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in \\nas39ent\Domains\b\black-kite.co.uk\user\htdocs\html_form_send.php on line 5
and don't know how to fix it. Here is the code:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email_to = "dkg@black-kite.co.uk";
$email_subject = "Web Form Message";
function died($error) {
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
!isset($_POST['company']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
!isset($_POST['message'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
$company = $_POST['company']; // not required
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
$error_message .= 'The name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
if(strlen($message) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The message you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
?>
Thank you for your message. We will be in touch.
<?php
}
die();
?>
Any help would be greatly appreciated - and preferably in laymans terms. I am new to PHP..
