PHP form difficulties

kokoi · July 20, 2004, 9:36am

I got a script from a site, allowing to create a e-mail form with validation of the text boxes and e-mail address. But I always seem to get an error message. I think it has something to do with the
“//Relative path from this script (important)”.Now serverside scripting has never really been my thing. So that’s why I started this thread. What is meant with the line between quotation marks ?

Thnx in advance

system · July 20, 2004, 9:53am

What’s the error message ? What’s the script ?

system · July 20, 2004, 9:55am

The error message is generated by the script itself.

<?php
################################################################
# Mail-it Now! Upload2Server 1.4                               #
# Script written by: Matthieu Biscay                           #
# Web: http://www.skyminds.net/source/                         #
# Contact: http://www.skyminds.net/contact/                    #
# Copyright SkyMinds.Net. All rights reserved.                 #
# This script is linkware. Please leave this header here.      #
# For commercial use or custom version contact us.             #
################################################################

// ---------------------------------- EDIT HERE --------------------------------- //
	// Your email to get the results.
	$dest = "[email protected]";

	//Full path to your upload dir
	$up_full = "http://www.kokoi.be/upload/";
	
	//Relative path from this script (important)
	$up_dir = "/upload/";
	
	// Number of upload fields. Put 0 if you don't want any.
	$UploadNum = "0";
	
	//Host mail functions. Possible values are 0 or 1. See below:
	// 0 is for most hosts (default value). 
	// 1 is for Online.Net (Online).
	$online_isp = "0";	
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //

if(isset($_REQUEST["submit"]))
{
// ------------------------ Fields Verification Process ------------------------- //
	$Nada = '';
	$From = $_REQUEST['From']; 
	$Msg  = $_REQUEST['Msg'];
	$Name = $_REQUEST['Name'];

	if(empty($From))
	{                 
    		$Nada.="Email field is empty !<br>";
	}
	if(empty($Msg))
	{
    		$Nada.="Message field is empty !<br>";
	}
	$noway = "$Nada" ;
	
	if(empty($Nada) && 
	eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$",$From))
	{
		$ok = TRUE;
	}
	elseif(!empty($Nada) && 
	eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$",$From))
	{
		$ok = FALSE;
	}
	else
	{
		$ml = "Your email address is invalid !<br>";
		$ok = FALSE;
	}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //

// ----------------------------- Upload Files ------------------------------ //
	$status    = '';
	$new_name  = '';
	$uploaded  = '';
	$get_files = '';
	$all_names = '';
	
	for($i=0;$i<count($_FILES["fileup"]["tmp_name"]);$i++)
	{
		$name=$_FILES["fileup"]["name"][$i];
		$temp=$_FILES["fileup"]["tmp_name"][$i];
		$size=$_FILES["fileup"]["size"][$i];
		$type=$_FILES["fileup"]["type"][$i];
		if($size > 0)
		{
			global $up_dir, $all_names;
			$new_name = time() . "-" . $name;
			$new_name = str_replace(" ","_",$new_name);
			@move_uploaded_file($temp, $up_dir . $new_name);
			$all_names.= "$new_name
";
		}
	}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //

// ----------------------------- Upload Messages --------------------------- //
	if(empty($all_names))
	{
		$status   = "No files uploaded.";
		$uploaded = "No files sent.";
	}
	else
	{
		$status    = "File(s) successfully uploaded.";
		$uploaded  = "Yes !
Files:";
		$get_files = "
Get the file(s): $up_full";
	}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------- //

// ----------------------------- Mail Builder ------------------------------ //
	if($ok == "TRUE")
	{
		$referer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
 		$subject = "Feedback";
 		$body    = "Origin: $referer
";
 		$body.="
***** Results *****

";

		if(count($_POST))
 		{
			while(list($key, $val) = each($_POST))
			{
				$body.="$key : $val
";
    		}  
 		}

 		$body.="

";
		$body.="Upload: $uploaded
";
		$body.="$all_names
";
		$body.="$get_files
";
 		$body.="*************************
";
  
 		if($online_isp == "1")
 		{
			if(!email("feedback",$dest,$sujet,$body))
			{
				print "An error occured during mail delivery <br>";
			}
 		}
 		else
		{
			if(!mail($dest, $subject, $body, "From: $Name < $From >
" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() ))
			{
				print "An error occured during mail delivery <br>";
			}
		}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //

// ---------------------------- Success Message ---------------------------- //
?>
<html><head><title>Success !</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
<center><table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div align="center"><br>
Thank you !<br><br>Your message has been successfully sent to the webmaster and should receive an answer shortly.<br><br>
<?php echo $status; ?>
<br><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/">Back to the main page</a></p><br></div>
<font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font> 
</tr></table>
</td></tr></table></center></body>
<!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/) -->
</html>
<?php
	}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
	else
	{
// ----------------------------- Error Message ----------------------------- //
?>
<html><head><title>Error !</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
<center><table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div align="center"><br><b>
<?php 
echo $noway;
echo $ml;
?>
</b><p><br><br>Your message could not be processed properly. Please note the error messages above and press the back button to try again.<br> If the problem still remains <a href="http://www.skyminds.net/contact/">contact the webmaster</a> to fix the problem.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href='Javascript:history.go(-1)'>BACK</a></p><br></div>
<font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font>
</tr></table>
</td></tr></table></center></body>
<!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/) -->
</html>
<?php
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
	} 
}
else
{
	$num = 0;
	$upload_box = '';
	while($num < $UploadNum)
	{
		$num++;
		$upload_box.= "<tr><td><font size='-1' face='verdana'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;File $num:</font></td><td><input name='fileup[]' type='file'></td>";
	}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Script from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/)</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" alink="#003399"
topmargin=" 0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border: 1">
<!--
################################################################
# Mail-it Now! Upload2Server 1.4                               #
# Script written by: Matthieu Biscay                           #
# Web: http://www.skyminds.net/source/                         #
# Contact: http://www.skyminds.net/contact/                    #
# Copyright SkyMinds.Net. All rights reserved.                 #
# This script is linkware. Please leave this header here.      #
# For commercial use or custom version contact us.             #
################################################################
-->
<table border="0" width="60%" align="center"><tr><td valign="top">
<table border="1" width="70%" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF" cols="1" align="center"><tr><td> 
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table border="0" bordercolor="#000000" height="100" align="center"><tr> 
<td height="5" width="218"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email : </b></font></td><td height="5" width="249"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="255" name="From" style="background-color: #CCCCCC;font: verdana; color: #000000; border: 0px;" value=""></td></tr><tr><td height="5" width="218"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Name : </font></td><td height="5" width="249"><input type="text" size="30" name="Name" style="background-color: #CCCCCC;font: verdana; color: #000000; border: 0px;" value=""></td></tr></table>
<p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Message : </font></b><br><textarea name="Msg" cols="45" rows="7"></textarea><br></p>
<table width="95%" border="0" align="center"><tr align="center"><td>&nbsp;</td>
<?php echo $upload_box; ?></tr></table>
<p align="center"><br>
<input type="reset" name="reset" value=" Clear ">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Send " style="background-color:#CCCCCC">
</p>
</form>
<font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
<!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/)  -->
</html>
<?php } ?>

system · July 20, 2004, 10:06am

In the relative path you should fill in the path ‘seen’ from the location of this script. Your upload directory is http://www.kokoi.be/upload, so if you place the script on http://www.kokoi.be then the relative path is “upload/”. If you place it in http://www.kokoi.be/scripts then the relative path is “…/upload/”. What is the error message generated by the script ?

system · July 20, 2004, 10:10am

print "An error occured during mail delivery ";
You can find it somewhere in the middle of the script. But I don’t have a clue why it’s triggered. PHP is like chinese to me.

system · July 20, 2004, 10:20am

Try this. Don’t forget to change the relative path if necessary.


 <?php
 ##################################################  ##############
 # Mail-it Now! Upload2Server 1.4                               #
 # Script written by: Matthieu Biscay                           #
 # Web: http://www.skyminds.net/source/                         #
 # Contact: http://www.skyminds.net/contact/                    #
 # Copyright SkyMinds.Net. All rights reserved.                 #
 # This script is linkware. Please leave this header here.      #
 # For commercial use or custom version contact us.             #
 ##################################################  ##############
 
 // ---------------------------------- EDIT HERE --------------------------------- //
     // Your email to get the results.
     $dest = "[email protected]";
 
     //Full path to your upload dir
     $up_full = "http://www.kokoi.be/upload/";
     
     //Relative path from this script (important)
     $up_dir = "/upload/";
     
     // Number of upload fields. Put 0 if you don't want any.
     $UploadNum = "0";
     
     //Host mail functions. Possible values are 0 or 1. See below:
     // 0 is for most hosts (default value).
     // 1 is for Online.Net (Online).
 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
 
 if(isset($_REQUEST["submit"]))
 {
 // ------------------------ Fields Verification Process ------------------------- //
     $Nada = '';
     $From = $_REQUEST['From'];
     $Msg  = $_REQUEST['Msg'];
     $Name = $_REQUEST['Name'];
 
     if(empty($From))
     {                 
             $Nada.="Email field is empty !<br>";
     }
     if(empty($Msg))
     {
             $Nada.="Message field is empty !<br>";
     }
     $noway = "$Nada" ;
     
     if(empty($Nada) &&
     eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$",$From))
     {
         $ok = TRUE;
     }
     elseif(!empty($Nada) &&
     eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$",$From))
     {
         $ok = FALSE;
     }
     else
     {
         $ml = "Your email address is invalid !<br>";
         $ok = FALSE;
     }
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
 
 // ----------------------------- Upload Files ------------------------------ //
     $status    = '';
     $new_name  = '';
     $uploaded  = '';
     $get_files = '';
     $all_names = '';
     
     for($i=0;$i<count($_FILES["fileup"]["tmp_name"]);$i++)
     {
         $name=$_FILES["fileup"]["name"][$i];
         $temp=$_FILES["fileup"]["tmp_name"][$i];
         $size=$_FILES["fileup"]["size"][$i];
         $type=$_FILES["fileup"]["type"][$i];
         if($size > 0)
         {
             global $up_dir, $all_names;
             $new_name = time() . "-" . $name;
             $new_name = str_replace(" ","_",$new_name);
             @move_uploaded_file($temp, $up_dir . $new_name);
             $all_names.= "$new_name
";
         }
     }
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
 
 // ----------------------------- Upload Messages --------------------------- //
     if(empty($all_names))
     {
         $status   = "No files uploaded.";
         $uploaded = "No files sent.";
     }
     else
     {
         $status    = "File(s) successfully uploaded.";
         $uploaded  = "Yes !
Files:";
         $get_files = "
Get the file(s): $up_full";
     }
 //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
 
 // ----------------------------- Mail Builder ------------------------------ //
     if($ok == "TRUE")
     {
         $referer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
         $subject = "Feedback";
         $body    = "Origin: $referer
";
         $body.="
***** Results *****

";
 
         if(count($_POST))
         {
             while(list($key, $val) = each($_POST))
             {
                 $body.="$key : $val
";
             }  
         }
 
         $body.="

";
         $body.="Upload: $uploaded
";
         $body.="$all_names
";
         $body.="$get_files
";
         $body.="*************************
";
   
         if(!mail($dest, $subject, $body, "From: $Name < $From >
" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() ))
         {
                 print "An error occured during mail delivery <br>";
         }
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
 
 // ---------------------------- Success Message ---------------------------- //
 ?>
 <html><head><title>Success !</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
 <center><table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr>
 <td width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
 <table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><tr>
 <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div align="center"><br>
 Thank you !<br><br>Your message has been successfully sent to the webmaster and should receive an answer shortly.<br><br>
 <?php echo $status; ?>
 <br><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
 <p><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/">Back to the main page</a></p><br></div>
 <font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font>
 </tr></table>
 </td></tr></table></center></body>
 <!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/) -->
 </html>
 <?php
     }
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
     else
     {
 // ----------------------------- Error Message ----------------------------- //
 ?>
 <html><head><title>Error !</title></head><body bgcolor="white">
 <center><table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr>
 <td width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
 <table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><tr>
 <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div align="center"><br><b>
 <?php
 echo $noway;
 echo $ml;
 ?>
 </b><p><br><br>Your message could not be processed properly. Please note the error messages above and press the back button to try again.<br> If the problem still remains <a href="http://www.skyminds.net/contact/">contact the webmaster</a> to fix the problem.</p>
 <p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
 <p><a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'>BACK</a></p><br></div>
 <font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font>
 </tr></table>
 </td></tr></table></center></body>
 <!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/) -->
 </html>
 <?php
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
     }
 }
 else
 {
     $num = 0;
     $upload_box = '';
     while($num < $UploadNum)
     {
         $num++;
 $upload_box.= "<tr><td><font size='-1' face='verdana'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;File $num:</font></td><td><input name='fileup[]' type='file'></td>";
     }
 ?>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Script from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/)</title>
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" alink="#003399"
 topmargin=" 0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border: 1">
 <!--
 ##################################################  ##############
 # Mail-it Now! Upload2Server 1.4                               #
 # Script written by: Matthieu Biscay                           #
 # Web: http://www.skyminds.net/source/                         #
 # Contact: http://www.skyminds.net/contact/                    #
 # Copyright SkyMinds.Net. All rights reserved.                 #
 # This script is linkware. Please leave this header here.      #
 # For commercial use or custom version contact us.             #
 ##################################################  ##############
 -->
 <table border="0" width="60%" align="center"><tr><td valign="top">
 <table border="1" width="70%" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF" cols="1" align="center"><tr><td>
 <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
 <table border="0" bordercolor="#000000" height="100" align="center"><tr>
 <td height="5" width="218"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email : </b></font></td><td height="5" width="249"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="255" name="From" style="background-color: #CCCCCC;font: verdana; color: #000000; border: 0px;" value=""></td></tr><tr><td height="5" width="218"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Name : </font></td><td height="5" width="249"><input type="text" size="30" name="Name" style="background-color: #CCCCCC;font: verdana; color: #000000; border: 0px;" value=""></td></tr></table>
 <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Message : </font></b><br><textarea name="Msg" cols="45" rows="7"></textarea><br></p>
 <table width="95%" border="0" align="center"><tr align="center"><td>&nbsp;</td>
 <?php echo $upload_box; ?></tr></table>
 <p align="center"><br>
 <input type="reset" name="reset" value=" Clear ">
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Send " style="background-color:#CCCCCC">
 </p>
 </form>
 <font size="-2"><a href="http://www.skyminds.net/source/" target="_blank">Mail-it Now!</a></font>
 </td></tr></table>
 </td></tr></table>
 </body>
 <!--This script sources from SkyMinds.Net (http://www.skyminds.net/)  -->
 </html>
 <?php } ?>

system · July 20, 2004, 11:32am

I still got the error message. Could it have something do to with my server?
PS: www.kokoi.be/contact2.php

system · July 20, 2004, 11:51am

I tested it on my server and it worked flawlessly.
http://www.voetsjoeba.com/upload.php

It seems that your host does not allow emails to be sent.

system · July 20, 2004, 11:56am

Well that’s a bummer. Thnx for helping voetsjoeba.

system · July 20, 2004, 11:59am

Anytime. You might want to ask your host to allow email, after all email is a basic service of a host.