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PHP

Nthulane Makgato
PLUS
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points
Posted by Nthulane Makgato
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points

Adding forms.

Hi Guys,

I'm following along with the videos on the php track and we are creating a form. I understand what is going on but my contact page won't show. Please let me know what is wrong:

<?php

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $email = $_POST["email"];
    $message = $_POST["message"];
    $email_body = "";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Name: " . $name . "\n";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Email: " . $email . "\n";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Message: " . $message;

    // TODO: Send Email

    header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");
    exit;
}
?><?php 
$pageTitle = "Contact Mike";
$section = "contact"; 
include('inc/header.php'); 
?>

    <div class="section page">

        <div class ="wrapper">

            <h1>Contact</h1>

            <?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND ($_GET["status"] == "thanks") { ?>

                <p>Thanks for the email! I&rsquo;ll be in touch shortly.</p>

            <?php } else { ?>

                        <p>I&rsquo;d love from you! Complete the form to send me an email.</p>

                            <form method="post" action="contact.php">
                                <table>
                                        <tr>
                                            <th>
                                                <label for="name">Name</label>
                                            </th>
                                            <td>
                                                <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
                                            </td>
                                        </tr>
                                        <tr>
                                            <th>
                                                <label for="email">Email</label>
                                            </th>
                                            <td>
                                                <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                                            </td>
                                        </tr>
                                        <tr>
                                            <th>
                                                <label for="message">Message</label>
                                            </th>
                                            <td>
                                                <textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                                            </td>
                                        </tr>

                                </table>
                                <input type="submit" value="send">
                             </form>    

            <?php   } ?>


        </div>

    </div>

<?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>

Please help.

Alejandro Cavazos
Alejandro Cavazos
4,250 Points

Save yourself some time and add this two lines of code to the top of your php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

It will display errors and let you know whats going on.

IMPORTANT: Remove this two lines when pushing to production

2 Answers

dhillonsh
dhillonsh
4,745 Points

I believe I see the problem; replace where you have:

<?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND ($_GET["status"] == "thanks") { ?>

with:

<?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND $_GET["status"] == "thanks") { ?>

You added an extra ( before the $_GET["status"] which created a syntax error in the php code, preventing it from loading.

Nthulane Makgato
PLUS
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points
Nthulane Makgato
Nthulane Makgato
Courses Plus Student 19,602 Points

@Alejandro Cavazos, I will try it. Thank you.

I have errors with my php and I have your lines of code in my code. Please detail how i'm supposed to use it as nothing is happening.