jQuery Contact Form Markup
http://www.raymondselda.com/php-contact-form-with-jquery-validation/
First, let’s create the markup for our contact form. Create a new page called contact.php (or whatever name you want as long as it has a PHP extension). Having a PHP file affords us the luxury of only having a single page to display and at the same time process our contact form. We also used a PHP constant for the action value of our contact form. That constant is the filename of the current file, relative to the document root. This is to ensure us that our form will go to the same page after sending our form.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>PHP Contact Form with JQuery Validation</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contact-wrapper">
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contactform">
<div>
<label for="name"><strong>Name:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="contactname" id="contactname" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email"><strong>Email:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="email" id="email" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="subject"><strong>Subject:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="subject" id="subject" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="message"><strong>Message:</strong></label>
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="message" id="message"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Send Message" name="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Step Two: Give it some style
We’re going to apply some styling to our contact form using CSS to make it more interesting. For the purposes of this tutorial we’re going to embed our CSS right inside contact.php inside the head section and in between the style tags.body {
font-family:Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
}
#contact-wrapper {
width:430px;
border:1px solid #e2e2e2;
background:#f1f1f1;
padding:20px;
}
#contact-wrapper div {
clear:both;
margin:1em 0;
}
#contact-wrapper label {
display:block;
float:none;
font-size:16px;
width:auto;
}
form#contactform input {
border-color:#B7B7B7 #E8E8E8 #E8E8E8 #B7B7B7;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
padding:5px;
font-size:16px;
color:#333;
}
form#contactform textarea {
font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:100%;
padding:0.6em 0.5em 0.7em;
border-color:#B7B7B7 #E8E8E8 #E8E8E8 #B7B7B7;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
}
If you’re following along, your contact form should look like this:
Step Three: Validate using JQuery
We already loaded JQuery in case you haven’t noticed in our initial contact form markup:<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>Loading JQuery alone only gets half of the job done. We still need a JQuery plugin called Validation to help us validate our contact form. After you’ve downloaded and extracted the plugin, look for jquery.validate.pack.js file and save it where your contact.php is saved and reference it from the file just like what you did with JQuery.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="jquery.validate.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>Now we need to initialize the JQuery:Validation plugin in order to use it. Take note that #contactform is the id value of the form.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.validate.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#contactform").validate();
});
</script>
After that, we now need to add a class attribute to our input fields. If you just need a required field you just add class=”required” to the input tag and when you need to require and validate an email so that the format is correct then you need to add class=”required email”. Here’s the updated markup for our jQuery contact form with the classes already added.<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contactform">
<div>
<label for="name"><strong>Name:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="contactname" id="contactname" value="" class="required" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email"><strong>Email:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="email" id="email" value="" class="required email" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="subject"><strong>Subject:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="subject" id="subject" value="" class="required" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="message"><strong>Message:</strong></label>
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="message" id="message" class="required"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Send Message" name="submit" />
</form>
Now refresh your jQuery contact page and submit the contact form without entering any data. Your contact page will catch the errors and hopefully will look like the image below. Also try entering a different format for the email field and you should see a different message. Try reading the Validation documentation for more validation options.
Step Four: Submit and process the form using PHP
Now it’s time to add some PHP magic to our jQuery contact form! Place this code on the topmost section of your file (just above your DOCTYPE declaration). You might be wondering why we need to validate the inputs again even if we already validated the inputs using Javascript. The reason is that PHP will act as our second level of validation in case Javascript is turned off on the client’s machine. I highly suggest that you don’t rely on Javascript alone for validating form inputs. Aside from validating inputs, PHP will also be responsible for sending out the email in case no errors were found.I’ve stripped down and borrowed the code below from this very helpful article. The green comments should basically explain what each code snippet is doing.
<?php
//If the form is submitted
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//Check to make sure that the name field is not empty
if(trim($_POST['contactname']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$name = trim($_POST['contactname']);
}
//Check to make sure that the subject field is not empty
if(trim($_POST['subject']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$subject = trim($_POST['subject']);
}
//Check to make sure sure that a valid email address is submitted
if(trim($_POST['email']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else if (!eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($_POST['email']))) {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
}
//Check to make sure comments were entered
if(trim($_POST['message']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {
$comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['message']));
} else {
$comments = trim($_POST['message']);
}
}
//If there is no error, send the email
if(!isset($hasError)) {
$emailTo = 'youremail@yoursite.com'; //Put your own email address here
$body = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nSubject: $subject \n\nComments:\n $comments";
$headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email;
mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
$emailSent = true;
}
}
?>
We’re almost finished! All we have to do is insert a little more PHP to output two kinds of messages. The first message is to notify us in case there were errors after our submission, and the other is a message to tell us that the email was already sent and no errors were found. The code for that will just sit right inside the contact-wrapper div but right before the jQuery contact form markup.<?php if(isset($hasError)) { //If errors are found ?>
<p class="error">Please check if you've filled all the fields with valid information. Thank you.</p>
<?php } ?>
<?php if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true) { //If email is sent ?>
<p><strong>Email Successfully Sent!</strong></p>
<p>Thank you <strong><?php echo $name;?></strong> for using my contact form! Your email was successfully sent and I will be in touch with you soon.</p>
<?php } ?>
Finished Code
<?php
//If the form is submitted
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//Check to make sure that the name field is not empty
if(trim($_POST['contactname']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$name = trim($_POST['contactname']);
}
//Check to make sure that the subject field is not empty
if(trim($_POST['subject']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$subject = trim($_POST['subject']);
}
//Check to make sure sure that a valid email address is submitted
if(trim($_POST['email']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else if (!eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($_POST['email']))) {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
}
//Check to make sure comments were entered
if(trim($_POST['message']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {
$comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['message']));
} else {
$comments = trim($_POST['message']);
}
}
//If there is no error, send the email
if(!isset($hasError)) {
$emailTo = 'youremail@yoursite.com'; //Put your own email address here
$body = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nSubject: $subject \n\nComments:\n $comments";
$headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email;
mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
$emailSent = true;
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>PHP Contact Form with JQuery Validation</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.validate.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#contactform").validate();
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family:Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
}
#contact-wrapper {
width:430px;
border:1px solid #e2e2e2;
background:#f1f1f1;
padding:20px;
}
#contact-wrapper div {
clear:both;
margin:1em 0;
}
#contact-wrapper label {
display:block;
float:none;
font-size:16px;
width:auto;
}
form#contactform input {
border-color:#B7B7B7 #E8E8E8 #E8E8E8 #B7B7B7;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
padding:5px;
font-size:16px;
color:#333;
}
form#contactform textarea {
font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:100%;
padding:0.6em 0.5em 0.7em;
border-color:#B7B7B7 #E8E8E8 #E8E8E8 #B7B7B7;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contact-wrapper">
<?php if(isset($hasError)) { //If errors are found ?>
<p class="error">Please check if you've filled all the fields with valid information. Thank you.</p>
<?php } ?>
<?php if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true) { //If email is sent ?>
<p><strong>Email Successfully Sent!</strong></p>
<p>Thank you <strong><?php echo $name;?></strong> for using my contact form! Your email was successfully sent and I will be in touch with you soon.</p>
<?php } ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contactform">
<div>
<label for="name"><strong>Name:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="contactname" id="contactname" value="" class="required" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email"><strong>Email:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="email" id="email" value="" class="required email" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="subject"><strong>Subject:</strong></label>
<input type="text" size="50" name="subject" id="subject" value="" class="required" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="message"><strong>Message:</strong></label>
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="message" id="message" class="required"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Send Message" name="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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