How To Create A ‘Contact Us’ Web Form with CAPTCHA

Les — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:35:10 +0000

Before you start you will need Linux web hosting (not Windows), you will also need GD Library and PHP installed on your web server. Most good hosting companies will have these installed already.

1. Create a blank .php page, call it something like contact-us.php and copy all the code below into your .php page.

2. The PHP ‘contact us’ page should look like this when online. Contact Us Form
You can edit the look of this page later to match the look of your site.

3. You only need to edit two sections of the code below (they are in BOLD). First is your email address, this is were you want the ‘contact us’ form data to be emailed to.
Second is the ‘landing page’ after the form is filled in, nomally a ‘thank-you’ web page.

4. Download this compressed folder, un-zip it and upload all files / folder to the root of your site. Download This

session_start();
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// clean and check form inputs including the secure image code
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$comments = trim(strip_tags($_POST['comments']));
$secure = strtoupper(trim(strip_tags($_POST['secure'])));
$match = $_SESSION['captcha']; // the code on the image

// input error checking
if ($name==”") {
$err.= “Please provide your name
”;
}
if (!$email) {
$err.= “Please provide your email address
”;
}
if ($email) {
if (!eregi(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, $email)) {
$err.= $email. ” is not a valid email address.
”;
}
}
if ($comments==”") {
$err.= “Please provide comments
”;
}
if (!$secure) {
$err.= “No security code entered
”;
}
if (($secure!=$match) && ($secure!=”")) {
$err.= “Security code mismatch
”;
}
if ($err==”") {
// success – input passed all tests
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$enquiry=$_POST['comments'];
$to=”YOUREMAILADDRESS@YOURDOMAIN.COM“;
$message=”$name just filled in your ‘Contact Us Form’. Their comments were \n$comments and their e-mail address is: $email”;
if(mail($to,”Contact Us Form”,$message,”From: $email\n”)) {
} print ‘YOURDOMAIN.COM/THANK-YOU.HTML“>’; {
}
exit();
}
}
?>

if ($err!=”") {
echo “Form Error(s)
”;
echo “”. nl2br($err). “
”;
}
?>

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Les — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:31:43 +0000

Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Les — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:59:02 +0000

Bryn and Evan both won a gold medal at Dover life guard club swimming gala on Thursday evening.
Bryn was the youngest swimmer at 5. He wasn’t far behind the 9 year olds.

Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Les — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:41:09 +0000

My little man Evan removes his first image background for one of our Snuggle Feet baby shoes using Fireworks.

Your Name:	” size=”50″/>
Your Email:	” size=”50″/>
Your Comments:	<?php echo $_POST['comments'];?>
Enter what you see below…

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How To Create A ‘Contact Us’ Web Form with CAPTCHA

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Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Dover Life Guard Club Swimming Gala Thursday 18th Nov 2010