Beginner Help! Error On Contact Form PHP

[isaacmartin]

Hey guys, first post here. Very new to PHP. Have created a contact form with html and the PHP code to verify the form is giving me an error when on the website. http://www.solarwest.com.au/contact.html

The error after submitting the form is : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/solarwee/public_html/send_form_email.php on line 4

Can somebody have a look at the code and see if there is any errors there?

[php]<?php
if(isset($_POST[‘email’])) {

$email_to = "[email protected]";
$email_subject = "Website Enquiry";
 
 
function died($error) {
    // your error code can go here
    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['email']) ||
    !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
    !isset($_POST['message'])) {
    died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');      
}
 
$first_name = $_POST['name']; // required

$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
$comments = $_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.
’;
}
$string_exp = “/^[A-Za-z .’-]+$/”;
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(strlen($message) < 2) {
$error_message .= ‘The Message you entered do not appear to be valid.
’;
}
if(strlen($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);
}
 
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";

$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($messag)."\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 contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php } ?>

[/php]

[Merely]

[php] echo “We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. “;
echo “These errors appear below.

”;
echo $error.”

”;
echo “Please go back and fix these errors.

”;
die();
}[/php]

Have you defined the variable, $error, elsewhere in the script? I think that may be a possible problem.

[isaacmartin]

Thank’s for your reply, have sorted it.
One more question though. If i want to redirect back to the homepage after submitting the form what code would i Use for that?

[awl19]

Hopefully I’m not giving you bad advice. There’s 3 ways I know of doing it.

HTML

<META http-equiv=”refresh” content=”8;URL=index.php”>

JavaScript

setTimeout(function(){ window.location = "index.php"; }, 8000);

PHP
[php]header(‘Refresh: 8; URL=index.php’);[/php]

8 (or 8000 in JS) = 8 seconds before page redirect
index.php = page redirect destination

Hope this is what you were looking for.