Re: send contact form to email in cakephp

Your missing a lot of CakePHP utility functions to make your life easier. What your doing at the moment has nothing to do with CakePHP as it is purely PHP.

Spend some time reading:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#cakerequest
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/email.html

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Afiq Rashid <afiqrashid91@gmail.com> wrote:

this is my contact.ctp

<form name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email">

<table width="450px">

<tr>

 <td valign="top">

  <label for="first_name">First Name *</label>

 </td>

 <td valign="top">

  <input  type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="30">

 </td>

</tr>

<tr>

 <td valign="top">

  <label for="email">Email Address *</label>

 </td>

 <td valign="top">

  <input  type="text" name="email" maxlength="80" size="30">

 </td>

</tr>

<tr>

 <td valign="top">

  <label for="comments">Comments *</label>

 </td>

 <td valign="top">

  <textarea  name="comments" maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6"></textarea>

 </td>

</tr>

<tr>

 <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center">

  <input type="submit" value="Submit">   

 </td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>

and this is my send_form_email

  

<?php

if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

     

    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED

    $email_to = "afiqrashid91@gmail.com.my";

    $email_subject = "contactform";

     

     

    function died($error) {

        // your error code can go here

        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";

        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";

        echo $error."<br /><br />";

        echo "Please go <a href=\"https://localhost/mall/pages/contact\">back</a> and fix these errors.<br /><br />";

        die();

    } 

     

 

    // validation expected data exists

    if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||

        !isset($_POST['email']) ||

        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {

        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       

    }

     

    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required

    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required

    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required

     

    $error_message = "";

    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';

  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {

    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

  }

    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";

  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {

    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

  }

  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {

    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';

  }

  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {

    died($error_message);

  }

    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

     

    function clean_string($string) {

      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");

      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);

    }

     

    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";

    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";

    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";

     

// create email headers

$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".

'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .

'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

?>

when i click the submit button there is no error..but there is nothing when i check my email..

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