PHP email form for dummies???

[katiebugla]

I am working a site for a client and I am a newb to web design and development... so talk slowly and at like a 3rd grade level.

So, I am trying to make an email form - I have designed the form in HTML on my contact page http://gscapedesign.com/contact_us.html

I also created a php file - email_form.php (which I have no idea what I did there... I "hacked" from a tutorial and inserted what I thought was right and relevant to my situation). That said, when the form is completed, an error message comes up reading Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONCAT_EQUAL in /home/content/95/8124395/html/email_form.php on line 17

<?php
$to = "josh@gscapedesign.com";
$subject = "Greenscape Customer Inquiry";
$message = "Customer name: " . $_POST['name'] . "\r\n" .
"Phone number:			" . $_POST['phone'] . "\r\n" .
"Email:					" . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n" .
"Contact: 				" . $_POST['contact'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n" .
"Services:				" . $_POST['landscape design and construction'] . "\r\n" .
"Services:				" . $_POST['hardscape design and construction'] . "\r\n" .
"Services:				" . $_POST['grounds maintenance'] . "\r\n" .
"Services:				" . $_POST['irrigation and drainage systems'] . "\r\n" .
"Services:				" . $_POST['lighting'] . "\r\n" .
"Budget:				" . $_POST['budget'] . "\r\n" . 
 
$from = $_POST['email'];
$headers = "From: $from" . "\r\n";
$headers = .= "Bcc: kroge16@tigers.lsu.edu" . "\r\n" ;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ;
?>

Any pointers???

[bluewalrus]

Can you please post your code?

[katiebugla]

Did you need the html or php?

Or did you need something else?

Sorry I'm such a newb... I'm stumbling through all these languages.

[katiebugla]

    <form action="email_form.php" method="post" name="contact_gscape" id="contact_gscape">
      <span id="sprytextfield1">
      <label for="name"><span class="form_text">Name</span></label>
      <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A contact name is required.</span></span>
      <br />
      <span id="sprytextfield2">
      <label for="phone" class="form_text">Phone Number</label>
      <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A phone number is required.</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a valid phone number.</span></span>
      <br />
      <span id="sprytextfield3">
      <label for="email" class="form_text">Email</label>
      <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">An email address is required.</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a valid email address.</span></span>
      </p>
      <span id="contact">
      <label for="label">What is the best way to contact you?</label>
      <select name="contact" size="1" id="contact">
        <option value="Phone">Phone</option>
        <option value="Email">Email</option>
      </select>
      <span class="selectRequiredMsg">Please select an item.</span></span>
      </p>
        <span class="form_text">What Greenscape services would you like to know more about?</span>      
        <br />
       <label>
       	  <input name="landscape design and construction" type="checkbox" id="landscape design and construction" value="landscape design and construction" />
          <span class="form_text">Landscape Design &amp; Construction</span></label>
           <br />
       <label>
       	  <input name="hardscape design and construction" type="checkbox" id="hardscape design and construction" value="hardscape design and construction" />
          <span class="form_text">Hardscape Design &amp; Construction</span></label>
          <br />
      <label>
       	  <input name="grounds maintenance" type="checkbox" id="grounds maintenance" value="grounds maintenance" />
          <span class="form_text">Grounds Maintenance</span></label>
          <br />
      <label>
       	  <input name="irrigation and drainage systems" type="checkbox" id="irrigation and drainage systems" value="irrigation and drainage systems" />
          <span class="form_text">Irrigation &amp; Drainage Systems</span></label>
         <br />    
      <label>
       	  <input name="lighting" type="checkbox" id="lighting" value="lighting" />
          <span class="form_text">Lighting</span></label>
        </p>
         <span class="form_text">What is your budget?</span>
         <label for="budget"></label>
         <select name="budget" id="budget">
           <option value="level1">$0 - $500</option>
           <option value="level2">$501-$1000</option>
           <option value="level3">$1001-$5000</option>
           <option value="level4">$5000+</option>
         </select>
         <span class="selectRequiredMsg">Please select an item.</span></span>
        </p>
        <span id="sprytextarea1">
        <label for="other" class="form_text">Anything else?</label>
        <br />
        <textarea name="other" id="other" cols="45" rows="2"></textarea>
        <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span><br />
      <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Email Us" />
  </form>

[bluewalrus]

Sorry, I meant the PHP.

[JShor]

Your syntax error is on this line:

$headers = .= "Bcc: kroge16@tigers.lsu.edu" . "\r\n" ; 

You put "= .=" by accident. It should only be ".=".

Change that line to this:

$headers .= "Bcc: kroge16@tigers.lsu.edu" . "\r\n" ; 

And you should be fine.

[katiebugla]

It did indeed!!! THANK YOU!

[katiebugla]

I have more questions - if y'all don't mind. When the company receives the emailed form this is what they get

Customer name: Katie Rogers
Phone number: 1-555-555-5555
Email: katiebugla@yahoo.com

Best way to contact: Phone

Services:
Services:
Services:
Services:
Services: lighting
Budget: level1


I would like it to just display the services people selected (please see page for reference http://gscapedesign.com/contact_us.html)

Thoughts??? Thank you!

[JShor]

Create an array with each POST value, looping through them and checking if they're filled out should work.

<?php
$to = "josh@gscapedesign.com";
$subject = "Greenscape Customer Inquiry";
$message = "Customer name: " . $_POST['name'] . "\r\n" .
"Phone number:            " . $_POST['phone'] . "\r\n" .
"Email:                    " . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n" .
"Contact:                 " . $_POST['contact'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n";

$field = array('landscape design and construction', 'hardscape design and construction', 'grounds maintenance', 'irrigation and drainage systems', 'lighting', 'budget');

foreach($field as $f) {
if($_POST[$f] != '' && isset($_POST[$f])) {
$message .= "Services: ".$_POST[$f]."\r\n";
}
}

$message .= "Budget:                " . $_POST['budget'] . "\r\n" . 
 
$from = $_POST['email'];
$headers = "From: $from" . "\r\n";
$headers = "Bcc: kroge16@tigers.lsu.edu" . "\r\n" ;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ;
?>

[katiebugla]

Thank you JShor, you have been a tremendous help... I owe you!