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//// These brackets refer to the explanation and are not part of the script ////

Part 1 ( The php action feedback script ) <?php
1 $mailto = ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . ' ;
//// The email used here will be the email that you created on your hosting server ////
2 $subject = " Blog Form Results" ;
//// This will be the subject of your email when you login to your hosting email account ////
3 $formurl = " topwebdesign/blog.html " ;
//// This will be the url of where your html form is located ////

4 $errorurl = " topwebdesign.ie/error.html " ;
//// This will be the error page that will appear if the necessary required fields are not properly filled out.You must create this page yourself ////
5 $thankyouurl = " topwebdesign.ie/thanks-blog.html " ;
//// This will be the page that appears once all the required fields have been properly filled out.You must create this page yourself ////

6 $email_is_required = 1 ; //// The six lines here you can leave as they are and remember that the two required fields ie email and name are defined here ////
7 $name_is_required = 1 ;
8 $uself = 0 ;
9 $use_envsender = 0 ;
10 $use_webmaster_email_for_from = 1 ;
11 $use_utf8 = 1 ;

// -------------------- END OF CONFIGURABLE SECTION ---------------//

( All of the rest of the script can be left as it is but for an explanation of key individual items look at the description within the brackets //// //// )

12 $headersep = ( !isset ( $uself ) || ($uself == 0 )) ? " \r\n " : " \n " ;
13 $content_type = ( !isset ( $use_utf8 ) || ($use_utf8 == 0 )) ? ' Content-Type: text/plain ; charset=" iso-8859-1"' : ' Content-Type: text/plain ; charset=" utf-8 "' ;
14 if ( !isset ( $use_envsender )) { $use_envsender = 0 ; }
15 $envsender = "-f$mailto" ;
16 $name = $_POST [ ' name ' ] ;
//// The name in brackets [ 'name' ] refers to the html form code ie <input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="25" maxlength="40">.The keywords here as far as the php script is concerned are <input name="name" because this line enables the php script to catch the information inserted into the name textfield ////
17 $email = $_POST [ ' email ' ] ;
//// The same applies to email [ 'email' ] as far as the html form code is concerned <input name="email" type="text" id="email"size="30" maxlength="40" > .The keywords here,as in the above,as far as the php script is concerned are <input name="email" because this enables it to catch the information inserted into the email textfield ////
18 $comments = $_POST [ ' comments' ] ;
//// As above ////
19 $http_referrer = getenv ( "HTTP_REFERER" ) ;

if ( !isset ($_POST [ ' email ' ] )) {
header ( " Location: $formurl " ) ;
exit ;
}
if (($email_is_required && (empty ($email) || !ereg ( "@ ", $email ))) || ($name_is_required && empty ($name))) {
header ( " Location: $errorurl " ) ;
exit ;
}
if ( ereg ( " [ \r\n ] " , $name ) || ereg ( " [ \r\n ] " , $email ) ) {
header ( " Location: $errorurl " ) ;
exit ;
}
if ( empty ( $email )) {
$email = $mailto ;
}
$fromemail = ( !isset ( $use_webmaster_email_for_from ) || ($use_webmaster_email_for_from == 0 )) ? $email : $mailto ;

if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc ()) {
$comments = stripslashes ( $comments ) ;

}

20 $messageproper =
" This message was sent from : \n " .
" $http_referrer\n " .
"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
" Name of sender : $name\n " .
//// This is what you see within your hosting email account when you check your email ie name of sender : joe blogs ////
" Email of sender : $email\n " .
//// You will also see the email of sender within your email hosting account ie email of sender : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ////

"------------------------- COMMENTS -------------------------\n\n" .
//// This above line inserts a comments section within your hosting email account ////
$comments .
//// This line shows the comments made within the email message ////

"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" ;

$headers =
"From: \"$name\" <$fromemail>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer : chfeedback.php 2.13.0" .
//// The above line refers to the original script and must be left intact ////
$headersep . ' MIME-Version: 1.0' . $headersep . $content_type ;

if ($use_envsender) {
mail ($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, $headers, $envsender ) ;
//// The above line is the mail function and it gathers all the information for you within your hosting email account ////
}
else {
mail ($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, $headers ) ;
}
header ( "Location: $thankyouurl" ) ;
exit ;

?>

Thats the php script completed so just file and save this script as feedback.php.You then need to upload this script in ascii mode to the root directory of your website or in other words where all your other html files are located.

Part 2 ( The html form code ) //// The keywords in the html form code are name = " name ", name = " email ", name = " comments ".The words in brackets refer to the words that you used to define your php variables ie [ ' name ' ], [ ' email ' ], [ ' comments ' ] and these words must be the same in order for the php script to collect the information submitted within the html form ////
The html code of your form will look like the following :

<form action="feedback.php" method="post">

<table width="60%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#D8D8D8" summary = "feedback form">
<tr>
<td width="27%"><div align="left"><strong><label for="name">Name</label></strong> <em>required</em></div></td>
<td width="73%">
<div align="left">
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="25" maxlength="40">
</div> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="left"><strong><label for="email">Email</label></strong><span><em> required</em></span></div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">
<input name="email" type="text" id="email"size="30" maxlength="40" >
</div> </td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td><div align="left"><strong><label for="comments">Comments</label></strong></div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">
<textarea name="comments" cols="30" rows="3" id="comments"></textarea>
</div> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><label>

<div align="left">
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="Reset" id="Reset" value="Reset" />
//// The above two lines have nothing to do with the php script but are necessary html form attributes ////
</div>
</label></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Thats it, your finished.