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marcott

Hello everyone,

I am building a contact form as well as a registration form to be included in a Wordpress template. So far the form is styled and the jQuery validation is working correctly. What I would like the form to do when it is submitted is do the back end validation, email the info to a set email address and then replace the form with a success message.

Can anyone recommend a good tutorial? I have googled it but I seem to be swimming in a sea of contact forms.

Thanks.

TheDoc

This one is pretty simple:

http://scriptplayground.com/tutorials/p ... -with-PHP/

marcott

Thanks for the link.

I used the script and it passes on the info fine but I am wondering how I can go about displaying the success or failure message on the original contact page rather than having a new page loaded.

User fills out info -> user clicks submit -> info is validated -> form disappears or fades out and is replaced by the success or failure message

TheDoc

Find this at the bottom:

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{
		$result = \"<b>Thank you</b>.<br />I will get back to you very soon.<br />\";
		}
	else
		{
		$result = \"Sorry: An error occured, please try again later.\";
		}
	}

And replace it with something like this:

$result = \"../contact-success.php\";
$errorpage = \"../contact-error.php\";

	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{
		header(\"Location: \" . $result);
		}
	else
		{
		header(\"Location: \" . $errorpage);
		}
	}

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