Need some help with my Form

General PHP Help
#1

Hi,
I am very new to PHP. I downloaded a PHP script for form submission which also includes validation from this link:

http://form.guide/email-form/php-form-to-email.html

I then made some small changes (adding email) and uploaded the script to my new site which is here:

http://www.sadrepaintings.com/index.html

When I click on submit button, I get this error:

[i][b]405 - HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed.

The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) was used to attempt access.[/b][/i]

I have followed all the instruction but can not figure out what is wrong. I will be very grateful if someone could help me.
I can even give access to the site for closer look if you want. The script is in root of the site where html files are.

Many thanks

Hamid

#2

Post the actual code that is being used, please.

#3

The form script is called “form-to-email.php” and is as follows:

<?php if(!isset($_POST['submit'])) { //This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form. echo "error; you need to submit the form!"; } $name = $_POST['name']; $visitor_email = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; //Validate first if(empty($name)||empty($visitor_email)) { echo "Name and email are mandatory!"; exit; } if(IsInjected($visitor_email)) { echo "Bad email value!"; exit; } $email_from = '[email protected]';//<== update the email address $email_subject = "New Form submission"; $email_body = "You have received a new message from the user $name.\n". "Here is the message:\n $message". $to = "[email protected]";//<== update the email address $headers = "From: $email_from \r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n"; //Send the email! mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers); //done. redirect to thank-you page. header('Location: thank-you.html'); // Function to validate against any email injection attempts function IsInjected($str) { $injections = array('(\n+)', '(\r+)', '(\t+)', '(%0A+)', '(%0D+)', '(%08+)', '(%09+)' ); $inject = join('|', $injections); $inject = "/$inject/i"; if(preg_match($inject,$str)) { return true; } else { return false; } } ?>

Form is very simple one as you see below:


Get in Touch




Name



Email



Message






There is a Thank you page that should load after the form submission as it shows below:

Thank you! Thanks for the submission!

Many thanks in advance.

#4

I just got a success message filling out the form

#5

Hi,
I am hosting the site on Windows 2008 which has PHP5 enabled. Do you think that is the source of the problem?

Thanks.

#6

I would say you need a different way to send the mail out, but I did get a successful message, not an error

#7

Good Afternoon,
I have fixed the issue with the form to email issue that I had originally after contacting the hosting company. Now the form submits successfully, BUT, it never arrives at the destinations. I contacted the hosting company and they said you need to include an “Authentication” code in your form handler and they have given me a sample below. But I don’t know how to integrate the auth. code into the original code. Below is the Auth.code. they have sent me:

require_once “Mail.php”;
$from = “Sandra Sender [email protected]”;
$to = “Ramona Recipient [email protected]”;
$subject = “Hi!”;
$body = “Hi,\n\nHow are you?”;
$host = “mail.example.com”;
$username = “smtp_username”;
$password = “smtp_password”;
$headers = array (‘From’ => $from,
‘To’ => $to,
‘Subject’ => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory(‘smtp’,
array (‘host’ => $host,
‘auth’ => true,
‘username’ => $username,
‘password’ => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("
" . $mail->getMessage() . "
“);
} else {
echo(”
Message successfully sent!
");
}

And this is my original code which works as you have tested it before:

<?php if(!isset($_POST['submit'])) { //This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form. echo "error; you need to submit the form!"; } $name = $_POST['name']; $visitor_email = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; //Validate first if(empty($name)||empty($visitor_email)) { echo "Name and email are mandatory!"; exit; } if(IsInjected($visitor_email)) { echo "Bad email value!"; exit; } $email_from = '[email protected]';//<== update the email address $email_subject = "Email From Website"; $email_body = "You have received a new message from the user $name.\n". "Here is the message:\n $message". $to = "[email protected]";//<== update the email address $headers = "From: $email_from \r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n"; //Send the email! mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers); //done. redirect to thank-you page. header('Location: thank-you.html'); // Function to validate against any email injection attempts function IsInjected($str) { $injections = array('(\n+)', '(\r+)', '(\t+)', '(%0A+)', '(%0D+)', '(%08+)', '(%09+)' ); $inject = join('|', $injections); $inject = "/$inject/i"; if(preg_match($inject,$str)) { return true; } else { return false; } } ?>

I don’t know how to mix these two together to make it work.
Any help is very much appreciated.

Best Regards,

Hamid

#8

Please use this following code it’s with ajax or you can simple post data to PHP and get your form work done.

JS Code

$(document).ready(function(){
var form = $(’#formID’); // replace this with your forum ID rest nothing need to be change.
$(form).submit(function(event) {
// Stop the browser from submitting the form.
event.preventDefault();
console.log(‘contact form requested’);

                // Serialize the form data.
                var formData = $(form).serialize();
                // Submit the form using AJAX.
                $.ajax({
                    type: 'POST',
                    url: $(form).attr('server'),
                    data: formData
                })
                .done(function(response) {
                    //alert responce
                    alert(response);
                    document.getElementById("contactForm").reset(); 
                })
                .fail(function(data) {
                   // Set the message text.
                    document.getElementById("contactForm").reset(); 
                    if (data.responseText !== '') {
                        alert(data.responseText);
                    } else {
                   alert('Oops! An error occured and your message could not be sent.');
                    }
                });
            });
        });    
    </script>

PHP
<?php

    // Only process POST reqeusts.
    if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
        // Get the form fields and remove whitespace.
        $name = strip_tags(trim($_POST["name"]));
		$name = str_replace(array("\r","\n"),array(" "," "),$name);
        $email = filter_var(trim($_POST["email"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
        $message = trim($_POST["message"]);
        $phone = htmlentities($_POST['phone']);
        

        // Check that data was sent to the mailer.
        if ( empty($name) OR empty($message) OR !filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
            // Set a 400 (bad request) response code and exit.
            http_response_code(400);
            echo "Oops! There was a problem with your submission. Please complete the form and try again.";
            exit;
        }

        // Set the recipient email address.
        // FIXME: Update this to your desired email address.
        $recipient = ""; // update your email here
        

        // Set the email subject.
        $subject = "New contact from $name";

        // Build the email content.
        $email_content = "Name: $name\n";
        $email_content .= "Email: $email\n\n";
        $email_content .= "Phone: $phone\n\n";
        $email_content .= "Message:\n$message\n";

        // Build the email headers.
        $email_headers = "From: $name <$email>";

        // Send the email.
        if (mail($recipient, $subject, $email_content, $email_headers)) {
            // Set a 200 (okay) response code.
            http_response_code(200);
            echo "Thank You! Your message has been sent.";
        } else {
            // Set a 500 (internal server error) response code.
            http_response_code(500);
            echo "Oops! Something went wrong and we couldn't send your message.";
        }

    } else {
        // Not a POST request, set a 403 (forbidden) response code.
        http_response_code(403);
        echo "There was a problem with your submission, please try again.";
    }

?>

If you still get any problem feel free to post.

#9

Want to make sure I understand you @fear126. Your suggestion is to use the poorly executed mail function? I spend a lot of time explaining how that isn’t reliable and shouldn’t be used for normal process. I can’t say I agree with its use here.

#10

Can I thank you both friends for their kind responces.
@fear126, You have given me two sets of codes, one is JavaScript and the second one is the PHP code. Where do I link them to my form which I have shown the code below.
As you see, the current link is set to the PHP file called “form-to-email.php”.

Name
Email
Message

to @astonecipher , If you believe the above code is no good, may I have your suggestion please and how to integrate it.

Thank you both very much for your time.

Regards,

Hamid

#11

For some reason the form code simply generated the output here, while I wanted to show the code. I try again without the form tag

form action=“form-to-email.php” method=“post”>


Name



Email



Message




</form
#13

I am more in favor of mailing services after many years of using smtp.

https://mailgun.com

#14

To #fear126

I am still awaiting your response with regards to the codes you have provided for my form. One code is JS and one is PHP, would you please provided instruction as how I would integrate them into my form code.

Thank you in advance for taking the trouble on this issue for me.

Regards,

Hamid

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