I found a tutorial for a simple contact form using fancyBox. I was able to apply the form into my website, and then modify the code of the form to meet my needs. But my form is not working. Once I put in all of the information into the form and I press the Send Email button, the button then disappears and I get a "sending..." which is what it supposed to do if all of the fields are "true". But it does not want to do the last step which is to run the php file.
The form also came with the php file necessary for this to work, but it doesn't send it.
Does the php file have to be in an specific place in the website? I have tried to place it from several different locations but to no avail.
<div id="inline">
<form id="contact" name="contact" action="#" method="post">
<label for="name">Your Name </label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" class="txt">
<br>
<label for="email">Your E-mail</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" class="txt">
<br>
<label for="msg">Enter a Message</label>
<textarea id="msg" name="msg" class="txtarea"></textarea>
<button id="send">Send E-mail</button>
</form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validateEmail(email) {
var reg = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
return reg.test(email);
}
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".modalbox").fancybox();
$("#contact").submit(function() { return false; });
$("#send").on("click", function(){
var nameval = $("#name").val();
var emailval = $("#email").val();
var msgval = $("#msg").val();
var msglen = msgval.length;
var mailvalid = validateEmail(emailval);
var namelen = nameval.length;
if(namelen < 2) {
$("#name").addClass("error");
}
else if(namelen >= 2) {
$("#name").removeClass("error");
}
if(mailvalid == false) {
$("#email").addClass("error");
}
else if(mailvalid == true){
$("#email").removeClass("error");
}
if(msglen < 4) {
$("#msg").addClass("error");
}
else if(msglen >= 4){
$("#msg").removeClass("error");
}
if(mailvalid == true && msglen >= 4 && namelen >= 2) {
// if both validate we attempt to send the e-mail
// first we hide the submit btn so the user doesnt click twice
$("#send").replaceWith("<em>sending...</em>");
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'sendmessage.php',
data: $("#contact").serialize(),
success: function(data) {
if(data == "true") {
$("#contact").fadeOut("fast", function(){
$(this).before("<p><strong>Success! We will respond to your request as soon as possible.</strong></p>");
setTimeout("$.fancybox.close()", 1000);
});
}
}
});
}
});
});
</script>
sendmessage.php
<?php
$sendto = "antiques47@aol.com";
$username = $_POST['name'];
$usermail = $_POST['email'];
$content = nl2br($_POST['msg']);
$subject = "More information request";
$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($usermail) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". strip_tags($usermail) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 \r\n";
$msg = "<html><body style='font-family:Arial,sans-serif;'>";
$msg .= "<h2 style='font-weight:bold;border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;'>New User Feedback</h2>\r\n";
$msg .= "<p><strong>Sent by:</strong> ".$username."</p>\r\n";
$msg .= "<p><strong>Email:</strong> ".$usermail."</p>\r\n";
$msg .= "<p><strong>Message:</strong> ".$content."</p>\r\n";
$msg .= "</body></html>";
if(@mail($sendto, $subject, $msg, $headers)) {
echo "true";
} else {
echo "false";
}
?>
I tried changing the ACTION on the form to the specific file, but it didn't work either.
I noticed that the ajax part also has the URL to send message.php, I tried to change that so it has a specific directory to the file but that did not work.
