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2007

PHP Contact Form Script

By jeeremie. Posted in Articles, PHP

Here is a nice contact form for your website.

This contact form will return a validation message if the message was sent succesfully.
It will also display an error message if you try to send an empty message or if the e-mail is invalid.

The Demo

SEE THE DEMO »

There are only two scripts for this simple contact form:

contact.php : the PHP contact form itself (contact.php)
style.css : the CSS page (style.css) to control the layout of the page

Download:

Download (7.0 KiB, 15,552 hits)

Popularity: 19% [?]

40 Responses to “PHP Contact Form Script”

1
Adão Braga Says:
June 30th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I tested you script.
http://www.holistica.com.br/artigo1/contato/contact.php

But my internet provider don´t send the messagen for my inbox. Look, message the CONGRATULATION, but don´t.

Very Good.
2
darlene Says:
July 1st, 2007 at 8:37 am
great site for helping people!!…wtg
3
Jeeremie Says:
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Hello Adao Braga,

I tested the contact form you installed on your server but I can’t see what is the problem. Did you changed the email address to be your own in the contact.php page (user@email.com – line 61)? If it is not working, try changing the email to be something else or contact your internet provider. And by the way, check your spam box. It is possible your email provider moved the mail into it.

I hope it helps you.
4
tamara Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 10:20 am
is this good for a flash form ?
my form in flash gives me a message of message sent but i get no emails
5
Jeeremie Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Hello Tamara,

I have no idea. I never tried to adapt it to a flash form but I suppose it is possible.

However, your problem may due to your e-mail provider. Try to contact them and see if they can first fix it. If not, then it could be a problem with your flash form.

Let me know.
6
Anwar Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hey, PHP guy!
I am getting this problem,
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\Shop On!\categories.php on line 68
I know there is some problem with the mySQL. But EasyPHP is showing it to me as started.
I have the database in the MYsQL data folder as well. Do you have any idea, what might be the problem ?
P.S. plz reply on my email adress! Thanks
7
shivu Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 10:46 am
great site for helping people
8
ollie10123 Says:
August 1st, 2008 at 5:04 am
Hey, Any plans for expanding the form to include SMTP authenitcation?

Ollie
9
Jeeremie Says:
August 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
No, not at the moment but that’s a good idea Ollie. I will think about it. Thanks!
10
Jason Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hey Jeeremie,

I know this form is free and so any advice would be greatly appreciated, but understand if you don’t have time to look at it.

I love this form and am using it a lot but I’ve come across a need for some drop down select menus. Which it works fine and collects the data and emails it, the problem comes in if there is any type of error, the drop-down select menus RESET because there is no way to tell them what the original value was that had been selected by the user.

I’ve tried several things without success. Thought you might have some advice to make this work. (I sent you an email with the code if you want to look at it).

Thanks, the site looks AWESOME!!! BTW, FYI, MooFlow works in Firefox 3+ guess I was behind the times =)

j
11
Jeeremie Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 am
Thanks Jason,

I got your email two days ago but I didn’t have time to look at it yet. I will as soon as possible.
12
Jason Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Hey man, no problem, I just appreciate it! Hope things are going great.

Jeeremie Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Jason,

Your code was correct. Just replace:

^?View Code PHP

else if(trim($referred) == '')
{
$error = '<div class="errormsg">Please tell us who referred you to us. Thank You!</div>';
}

…by:

^?View Code PHP

else if(trim($referred) == '(Please Select One...)')
{
$error = '<div class="errormsg">Please tell us who referred you to us. Thank You!</div>';
}

And it should work! you can download the (simplified) code here if you want.

14
Jeeremie Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
By the way, I will release in a couple of weeks the quote form I used on my old site. It was based on this contact form. Since I am not using it anymore, I think it is a good idea to give it away. I will publish it in approximately one month as I have other posts in the queue waiting to be published.
15
Jason Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Hey Jeeremie,

Thanks for looking at it. I got it to require it so that if it’s not selected it gives an error, but the problem remains that if any error happens, then the select box doesn’t remember what was selected and reset itself back to the default… does that make sense?

Sorry if I was not more clear. I really appreciate your time.

Jeeremie Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

I tried this and it works! Check it by yourself (click on [+] to expand the code) :

^?Download download.txt

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
  <title>test SELECT</title>
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
.errormsg {
	color: red;
	border: red 1px solid;
	padding: 3px 7px;
	margin: 20px 5px;
}
 
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- The contact form starts from here-->
<?php
	$name       = '';
	$Email       = '';
	$error     = ''; // error message
 
	// Select
	function select_options($option_values, $default_option){
		foreach ($option_values as $value => $text)
		{
			$is_selected = ($value == $default_option)? 'selected': '';
			$html_text = htmlspecialchars($text);  // in case text contains '&', etc.
			echo "<option value=\"$value\" $is_selected>$html_text</option>\n";
		}
	}  // End Select
 
	// Start Arrays for Select inputs
	$select1 = array('' => '', 'test1' => 'test1', 'test2' => 'test2');
	$select2 = array('' => '', 'pizza' => 'pizza', 'noodles' => 'noodles');
 
 
	if(isset($_POST['send']))
	{
		$name   = $_POST['name'];
		$Email   = $_POST['Email'];
		// Start Arrays for Select inputs
		$Select_1 = $_POST['select1'];
		$Select_2 = $_POST['select2'];
 
 
		if(trim($name) =='')
		{
			$error = '<div class="errormsg">Enter your Name please!</div>';
		}
 
		else if(trim($Email) == '')
		{
			$error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter your email address!</div>';
		}
 
		else if(!isEmail($Email))
		{
			$error = '<div class="errormsg">You have enter an invalid e-mail address. Please, try again!</div>';
		}
 
		else if(trim($Select_1) == '' )
		{
			$error = '<div class="errormsg">Please choose an option for "Select - test 1". Thank You!</div>';
		}
 
		else if(trim($Select_2) == '' )
		{
			$error = '<div class="errormsg">Please choose an option for "Select - test 2". Thank You!</div>';
		}
		if($error == '')
		{
			if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())
			{
				$message = stripslashes($message);
			}
			//CHANGE EMAIL ADDRESS !!!!
			$to      = "test@gmail.com";
			$subject = '[WEBSITE] : ';
			$msg     = "Name :" . $name;
			$msg     .= "\r\nEmail :" . $Email;
			$msg     .= "\r\nSelect - test 1 :" . $_POST['select1'];
			$msg     .= "\r\nSelect - test 2 :" . $_POST['select2'];
			mail($to, $subject, $msg);
?>
 
<!-- Message sent! (change the text below as you wish)-->
<h1>Congratulations!!</h1>
<p>Thank you <?=$name;?>, your message is sent!</p>
<!--End Message Sent-->
 
<?php }
} if(!isset($_POST['send']) || $error != '') {
?>
 
<!--Error Message-->
<?=$error;?>
 
<form  method="post" name="contFrm" id="contFrm" action="">
 
	<div><label>Your Full Name: <span class="required">*</span></label> </div>
	<input type="text" size="40" value="<?=$name;?>" name="name" id="name" />
 
	<div><label>Your Email: <span class="required">*</span></label> </div>
	<input type="text" size="40" value="<?=$Email;?>" name="Email" id="Email"  />
 
	<div><label><span class="required">*</span> Select - test 1:</label> </div>
	<select name="select1" id="select1">
		<?= select_options($select1, $_POST['select1']) ?>
	</select>
 
	<div><label><span class="required">*</span> Select - test 2:</label> </div>
	<select name="select2" id="select2">
		<?= select_options($select2, $_POST['select2']) ?>
	</select>
 
	<p></p>
	<!-- Submit Button-->  
	<input name="send" type="submit" class="button" id="send" value="Submit" />
 
</form>
 
<!-- E-mail verification. Do not edit -->
<?php
}
function isEmail($email)
{
return(preg_match("/^[-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$/i",$email));
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Jeeremie Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

By the way, if you want to validate a phone number in your PHP contact form, add this code:

^?View Code PHP

else if(trim($phone) == '')
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter your phone number!</div>';
}
else if(!preg_match("/^[0-9]{6,}$/",$phone))
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter a valid phone number!</div>';
}

… like this: (click on [+] to expand the code)

^?View Code PHP

if(trim($name) == '')
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter your name!</div>';
}
else if(trim($phone) == '')
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter your phone number!</div>';
}
else if(!preg_match("/^[0-9]{6,}$/",$phone))
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter a valid phone number!</div>';
}
else if(trim($email) == '')
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">Please enter your email address!</div>';
}
else if(!isEmail($email))
{
  $error = '<div class="errormsg">You have enter an invalid e-mail address. Please, try again!</div>';
}
if($error == '')
{
  if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())
  {
    $message = stripslashes($message);
  }
...

The code “/^[0-9]{6,}$/” will check if the phone number contains only numbers ([0-9]) and if the number contains at least 6 characters ({6,}). You can increase this number if you want. For example, in Spain, phone numbers contains at least 9 numbers. Your code could be: “/^[0-9]{9,}$/”.

18
Jason Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
DUDE, did you re-write the entire form?? OH MY GOODNESS!!! I’m so so sorry. I just thought it might be a quick fix. I did not mean for you to have to do all that work.

Nevertheless it works AWESOME!!!! Perfect. You should upload it as a download as a NEW form with your other two because it’s completely different in a lot of ways =)

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!
19
Jeeremie Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
You are welcome Jason. I enjoyed it anyway!
20
mohd saif Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
hi,
the problem statement for comment number 6 of anwar is:
please check your connection variable and the database variables in the mysql_connect and mysql_select_db.
21
Navin Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Hi Jeeremie,

what a piece of simple php script, its a best one i came across.

Can you please tell me how can i add drop down box to your wonderful script which should include in mail

dropdown1 : Date
dropdown2 : month
dropdown3 : year

please help me its important to me.
22
Obzolete Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I just get this errormessage:

The POST method has been disabled by the server administrator
23
Jeeremie Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Maybe your host does not allow to send messages with the post method. Contact your host and ask them.
24
Mohamed Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Hello,

Let me thank you for this nice contact form.

For those who needs drop downs, I added Jeeremie’s code to the original. you can download it here until Jeeremie updates his version.
25
Jeeremie Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Thanks Mohamed. Great work!

Anyone, if you need a more complex form, you can download my free quote form on my freebies page. It has some drop down menus, radio buttons and so on.
26
Mohamed Says:
December 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I have added a captcha protection to the contact form instead of the 2+3 problem. download from here.
27
Pete Says:
February 8th, 2009 at 5:19 am
post #16 is good the error checking is in order and the select box works great (i have not been able to do that before i found this script) i have customized the error messages, well as opposed to messages the text / textbox border goes red and i have removed the else if’s for the error check and replace with standard if so it does all the checking at once useing an array and got that fine, however i would appreciate help with a very lightweight captcha script (4 or 5 letters / numbers long NOT case sensitive and ability to change the bg / text colour but must be a very small image size (kb’s) could you help ?
28
Steve Clay Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Do not use this script. It is vulnerable to e-mail header injection (allows an attacker to send spam from your hosting account) and XSS (allows a 3rd party site to steal your users’ cookies). This is one of the few “free” contact forms that isn’t full of holes.
29
Steve Clay Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 6:59 am
I apologize if I was a little harsh, but PHP security is very important, especially if your encouraging others to use the code. I highly recommend this book. I should also mention your Wordpress templates are beautiful.
30
Jeeremie Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
No problem. Thanks for letting us know. I actually didn’t know.
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tonton Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 6:49 am
super work fine
35
Chris Kalis Says:
June 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
Hi Jeeremie,

So is this still a safe form to use? I’m trying to get this into a website but I can’t seem to get it to work after I press send. Maybe it’s because that I’m using it with spry and it jumps/ slide back to “home” from “contact”. So I have to click on “contact” again and it display the msg, “congratulation… “. It does not stay at “contact” after send. It’ll be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
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Amir Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Hi
I was testing the form and I noticed the first error message is “ Please enter a subject!”

Is there any reason the Subject error message showing up first and not Name? and how would I change the order?
38
Alexis Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Saludos des de Lima Peru gracias por el Php de contactos lo voya meter en mi web
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Beho Says:
March 11th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Hello,
I want to use this form but just the email!!!
I mean something like,
Please, enter your email : xxxxx
2 + 3 = xxxxx

That’s it, I tried but It didn’t work, I am not an expert in php coding,

Thanks in advance man,
Beho

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