I am fairly new at PHP and struggling along, so please be patient with me.
the form I am working on is based upon a book tutorial, that I have entered manually and don't have an editor that color codes PHP errors, so that is part of my problem! Anyway, I am receiving an error msg that states 'Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /hsphere/local/home/bruceg/inspired-evolution.com/Contact_Form.php on line 39'
I assume this means I may be missing a ; or something similar, but I have double checked and don't see anything.
here is the ENTIRE code on the page:
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<!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" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Inspired Evolution :: Contact</title>
<?php require('includes/meta_tags.inc'); ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Gilbert.css" type="text/css" media="screen, handheld" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- begin outer wrapper div -->
<div id="wrapper_outer">
<a class="skiplink" href="#startcontent">Skip over navigation</a>
<!-- begin header div -->
<div id="header"><?php require('images/Rotating_Banner/rotating_banner.php'); ?></div>
<!-- top nav list -->
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li ><a href="About_Me.php" title="you know you want to learn more about me">About Me</a></li>
<li><a href="Skillset.php" title="I've got skillz">Skill set</a></li>
<li><a href="Hireme.php" title="I can do wonders for your web presence">Hire Me</a></li>
<li><a href="Portfolio.php" title="web sites, graphics, newsletters">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="Contact.php" title="how to get in touch with me">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="Resume.php" title="my beautiful resume">Résumé</a></li>
<li><a href="Blog.php" title="My musings on everyday life" >Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="RSS.php" title="Syndication that is really simple" >RSS</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- inner content wrapper div -->
<div id="wrapper_inner">
<!-- breadcrumbs div -->
<div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="index.php" title="home link" accesskey="1">Home</a> > > Contact</div>
<!-- text div -->
<div id="main_content">
<a name="startcontent" id="startcontent"></a>
<h1 title="Contact">Contact</h1>
<?php
$form_block = "
<form method=\"POST\" action=\" $PHP_SELF\" class=\"info_request\">
<fieldset>
<legend title="additional information request">Additional Information Request</legend>
<table id="info_request">
<tr>
<td>
<label for="firstname"><span class="red">*</span> First Name: </label></td>
<td>
<input id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" value="$_POST['firstname'] />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="lastname"><span class="red">*</span> Last Name:</label></td>
<td>
<input id="lastname" name="lastname" type="text" value="$_POST['lastname'] />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="company"><span class="red">*</span> Company: </label></td>
<td>
<input id="company" name="company" type="text" value="$_POST['company'] /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="phone"><span class="red">*</span> Phone: </label></td>
<td>
<input id="phone" name="phone" type="text" value="$_POST['phone'] /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="email"><span class="red">*</span> e-mail: </label></td>
<td>
<input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="$_POST['email'] /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="email2"><span class="red">*</span> re-enter e-mail: </label></td>
<td>
<input id="email2" name="email2" type="text" value="$_POST['email2'] />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="URL"> URL:</label></td>
<td>
<input id="URL" type="text" name="URL" /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="Contact_Preference"> Best way to reach:</label></td>
<td>
<input id="Contact_Preference" type="text" name="Contact_Preference" value="$_POST['Contact_Preference'] /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="Contact_Time"> Best time to contact:</label></td>
<td>
<input id="Contact_Time" type="text" name="Contact_Time" value="$_POST['Contact_Time'] />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<label for="message" id="message"> message:</label></td>
<td>
<textarea name="Textarea" rows="25" cols="50">Send me a detailed message specifying what you wish to accomplish with your web site.</textarea>
<input class="submit" src="/images/submit.gif" alt="Submit" type="image" name="submit" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</fieldset>
</form>" ;
if ($_POST[op] !="ds") {
// they need to see the form
echo "$form_block";
} else if ($_POST[op] == "ds") {
// check value of $_POST['firstname']
if ($_POST['firstname'] == " ") {
$name_err = '<span class="red">Please enter your first name!</span>< /br>';
$send = "no" ;
}
// check value of $POST['email']
if ($_POST ['email'] == " ") {
$email_err ='<span class="red">Please enter your email address!</span><br />';
$send="no";
}
if ($send != "no") {
//it's ok to send, so build the mail
$msg = "E-mail sent from www site\n";
$msg .="Sender's first name: $_POST [firstname]\n";
$msg .="Sender's last name: $_POST [lastname]\n";
$msg .="Company name: $_POST [company]\n";
$msg .="Senders Phone number: $_POST [phone]\n";
$msg .="Senders email address: $_POST [email]\n";
$msg .="Senders email address (re-typed): $_POST [email2]\n";
$msg .="URL : $_POST[URL]\n";
$msg .="Contact_Preference" $_POST[ Contact_Preference]\n";
$msg .="Contact_Time" $_POST[ Contact_Time]\n";
$msg .="Message: $_POST [message]\n\n";
$to ="webguync@gmail.com";
$subject ="There has been a disturbance in the force";
$mailheaders .="From: My Web Site
<http://www.inspired-evolution.com>\n";
$mailheaders .="Reply-To: $_POST [email]\n";
//send the mail
mail ($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
//display information to user
echo "<p>Hola, <strong>$firstname</strong>!.<br /><br />
We have received your request for additional information, and will respond shortly.<br />
Thanks for visiting inspired-evolution.com and have a wonderful day!<br /><br />
Regards,<br /><br />
<strong>Inspired Evolution</strong></p>";
} else if ($send =="no") {
//print error messages
echo "$name_err";
echo $email_err";
echo "$message_err";
echo "$form_block";
}
}
?.
<p><span class="red">*</span> indicates a required field.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<?php require('includes/bottom_links.inc'); ?></div>
<!-- begin footer -->
<div id="footer">
<p class="footertag">Inspired-Evolution - Web Site: Design, Development, Marketing for Raleigh/Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary North Carolina.</p>
<?php require('includes/footer.inc'); ?>
<span class="date"><?
$last_modified = filemtime("index.php");
print("Last Modified ");
print(date("m/j/y h:i", $last_modified));
?></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>a couple of ending questions.....
is there a way to turn off the errors so the form will display anyway?
For the textarea part of the form I am wanting to have the content not disappear if there is a validation error elsewhere .The other fields I have added value="$_POST['whatever'] do I do the same with textarea?
eg:
<textarea name="Textarea" rows="25" cols="50">Send me a detailed message specifying what you wish to accomplish with your web site.value="$_POST['Textarea']</textarea>
or is there another way??
sorry for the long post, but any assistance is greatly appreciative as I get over this "hump"!