Matt Varone - Creative Developer

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— This is a php script to manage contact forms. Its very simple but effective, any critics or comments are welcome. It consist of two files, sendmail.php and contact.php. The email sent is in plain text format, but you could easily change that.

Sendmail.php

This is the script that handles the form/s.

<?php

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// PHP CONTACT FORM SCRIPT v1.0

// By Matt Varone | http://www.mattvarone.com

# ------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// General Configuration

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// Name of the website.

$szFrom = "My Website";

// Your email, (the recipient email address).

$szRecipient = "email@somedomain.com";

// Website email address ( Sender's email address ).

$szFromEmail = "email@somedomain.com";

/* Title comes from a hidden input in the form. This gives

the possibility to set up more than one form and use this same script.*/

$szTitle = $_POST['title'];

// This sets up the email subject.

$szSubject = $szFrom.": ".$szTitle;

/* All input fields coming from the form/s should go here.

The first value is the name attribute used and the second

value on the right the name wanted to display

on the final email.*/

$aPosted = array(

"name" => "Name",

"telephone" => "Telephone Number",

"email" => "Email Address",

"comments" => "Comments, Critics and Suggestions",

// add here your fields

);

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// Email Content

# ------------------------------------------------------------

$szEmailContent.= $szSubject."\n";

$szEmailContent.= "------------------------------------------------------------\n\n";

$szLast = "";

foreach($aPosted as $value => $szReal)

{

if(isset($_POST[$value]))

{

if($szLast != $szReal)

{

$szEmailContent.= $szReal.":";

$szLast = $szReal;

};

$szEmailContent.= " ".$_POST[$value]."\n\n";

};

};

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// Declare Email headers

# ------------------------------------------------------------

$szHeaders = 'From: ' . $szFromEmail . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $szFromEmail . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

# ------------------------------------------------------------

// Output

# ------------------------------------------------------------

if( mail( $szRecipient, $szSubject, $szEmailContent, $szHeaders, '-f' . $szFromEmail ) )

// go to previous page ($lasturl) with message=1 (should be a succes message).

header( 'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']  . html_entity_decode( $_POST['lasturl'] ) . '?message=1' );

else

// go to previous page ($lasturl) with message=2 (should be a failure message).

header( 'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']  . html_entity_decode( $_POST['lasturl'] ) . '?message=2' );

?>

contact.php

Simple form as an example:

<h1>Contact Form Example</h1>

<form action="sendmail.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="My Contact Form Title"/>
<input type="hidden" name="lasturl" value="<?php echo ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); // this is important ?>"/>

<p><label>Name:</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" value=""/>
</p>

<p><label>Telephone Number:</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="telephone" value=""/>
</p>

<p><label>Email:</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" value=""/>
</p>

<p><label>Comments:</label><br/>
<textarea name="comments" rows="8" cols="40"></textarea>
</p>

<p><input type="submit" value="Continue"></p>

</form>

I think that the overall concept of the script is pretty simple but let me know if you have any questions. Note that currently this form don’t do any kind of input validation, you should add your own or wait for a new update. I Hope it helps someone out there. Cheers!