<FORM ID='htmlform' action="" onsubmit="return valforms(this)">
.....
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Submit">
When the user is done filling out the form, and clicks the submit button, I want all of the form information to be sent to me. How do I do this? This is only part of the code, the whole code is too long for me to type in here.
To reply on your question:
Oh, so like the page that emails the data is that an html page that I can have a message saying, "Thank you for your interest, you will hear back from us soon." and then have the page redirect to the home page again? I hope I'm not getting too complicated with this
You're almost right. Let me explain it to you:
the user gets a HTML page that was made in PHP, ASP,.. to fill in
some data in a form
the user fills in the data and clicks a button
The action on the button tells the server to process the page, or have another page to process it. Let's call this page PageX
PageX (written in PHP, ASP,...) will email the data to you
You can also have pageX return some text to the user's browser saying "thank you for your interest,....". You can also make a redirect to another page from this page
Does this answer your question?
The action part of the form element tells the browser what URL to post the information to. You would need to specify some page with some server-side code that would take that information and store it or send it in an email. The onsubmit part of your form element fires a JavaScript event that can be handled on the client's machine. You cannot do much on the client's machine without sending the data back to the server.
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I have a really simple form that allows a user to input an email address here:
<form method="post" action="http://www.mydomain.com/page2/">
<input type="email" name="email">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
This works correctly and it takes the visitor to www.mydomain.com/page2 when the submit button is clicked.
I am trying to get it to email me this input email address also when the submit button is clicked. I understand how to email using PHP but can the action have two urls?
Or is there a simpler way of doing this?
On /page2/ access the email in the global variable $_POST['email']. And then you can send it to yourself with PHP mail(). Example:
mail('myemail#domain.com', 'Someone submitted my form', 'Their email was: ' . $_POST['email']);
If you are stuck somewhere else, let me know and I can update the answer.
Once a form is submitted, you are no longer on that page. You've navigated away.
The other way you can do this is submit the first action via AJAX, then submit the form naturally to the second destination. I would suggest using jQuery to make your AJAX calls since most of the AJAX code is already there for you to use.
Another option is to have page2 be a php script, and have it perform the two actions once it receives the form data. See: Post to another page within a PHP script
I understand how to email using PHP
Then I would recommend writing some PHP code that sends the email to you.
but can the action have two urls?
No. A web browser can't make two requests at the same time. Which response would take precedence?
Nor does it need to. Now, you have a target already:
http://www.mydomain.com/page2/
Don't you control that page? That would be the page on which you'd put your PHP code for sending an email. If you don't control that page, then you would want an intermediary page. Something like:
sendmailandredirect.php
(Named solely to illustrate intent, you can call it what you like.) What this page would do is send the email, then issue a redirect to your final target. Something like:
header('Location: http://www.mydomain.com/page2/');
In effect, there would be "two urls" but they're invoked in serial instead of in parallel.
If you wanted to keep the code seperate and the action url as /page2/ you could fire off an ajax request on submit to your sendmail handler.
First question! Glad to be here. :)
I have a form set up to validate the input, and then if all fields are valid, send the entered information over to an email:
<form onsubmit="return validateForm()" action="mailto:someemail#me.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Everything works great! But now I need to reset the form after the information is transferred to the email (because my form is hidden on the same page, user can click the button again to make the form appear and the information from last time is still there). I can't add a line to my validateForm() to reset it because that happens before the information is transferred over, causing the email to lose the entered information. I also can't force the page to reset the form onload, because my webpage isn't reloaded after submission, and I certainly don't want to have to set a timer to clear it.
So my question is, how do I reset the form after the entered information is transferred to an email, using only HTML and JavaScript?
Thanks!
I have a simple form on my site that allows users to add comments on photos. However, the form doenst use ajax (like facebook). Instead, it submits the form and refreshes the page. This is fine however, if a user reloads the page, there is an alert that he/she will resubmit the data resulting in two of the same comments. Id like to remove this resubmit without sending the user to a confirmation page. Thanks.
Here is my form:
<form name='form' action='index.php' method='POST'>
<input type='text' name='comment'>
<input type='submit' value='submit' name='submit'>
PHP:
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$comment=$_POST[comment];
$time=time();
$id=$_GET['id'];
$put=mysql_query("INSERT INTO comments VALUES ('','$user','$time','$comment','$id')");
Is your PHP script simply re-rendering the page in response to a form post? The standard way to get the behavior you describe is that it should either return a HTTP status of 204 (No content) or 303 (see other, with a redirect to the page you want to show).
I have a form that looks like this
<form action="/receiver.pl" method="post">
</form>
Clicking on the submit button doesn't take the user to a new page, because of some JQuery that can be seen here.
Is it possible in receiver.pl to reload the current page?
What receiver.pl is doing is processing some data that is shown on the current page, where the submit button is.
So it would be really cool if the page could be reloaded, so the changes could be seen right away.
Receiver wouldn't do that. What you'd do is this:
jQuery makes an AJAX call to receiver.pl
Receiver.pl does its thing and returns a valid JSON string to jQuery.
jQuery then reloads the page or alters the page based on the content of the JSON results.
The CGI itself cannot reload a page once it's already been loaded.
No. A server side process can only return data to the client. The client has to initiate reloading the page. This would normally happen when the form was submitted, but the JavaScript is intercepting that action and replacing it.
It sounds like the solution is "Remove the JavaScript that is stopping normal form submission".
I have a form which submits to an iframe, This works fine if you are on a page with the iframe.
I want to be able to have the form on any page and when submit is pressed load a page and send the submit to the iframe
e.g.
On page "article.php" and press submit
Open page "results.php" and
Send post data from form clicked in "article.php" to iframe "DataHere" on "results.php"
Thanks in advance
You could try detecting if the frame exists when the form is submitted and if it does not, reload the whole page and generate the iFrame.
If you need a hand checkout http://www.java-scripts.net/javascripts/Check-Frames-Page-Script.phtml
If you are able to comfortably sanitize your initial POST data to avoid XSS, you could create an intermediate page for your iframe destination that does your POST for you:
On page article.php with <form action="results.php">, press submit.
results.php validates that the input isn't XSS, and renders with a <iframe src="negotiator.php?my=form&data=here"></iframe>
negotiator.php takes the query string arguments (and runs the same sanitizing as results.php) and POSTs them to your intended url.
Your results will load in the iframe.
It's pretty important that you make sure your input isn't insane. If your form requires arbitrary text, punctuation, and special characters, this is not safe for you.