PHP Email form help

**jam** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 06:22 PM

Hey,
So I'm making this site atm, and on one page, I have an Email form.
At the moment, it just emails me, and uses a CAPATCHA (sp?).
I want to include a part where people can upload photos only. (.jpg, .gif, .png)

I have looked on the net, but I can't find what I'm looking for. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out!

Here is my code so far:

HTML:

Code:

<form method="post" action="scripts/captcha.php">
  	Your Email: *<br><input name="email" type="text" size="40"/><br><br>
  	Message:<br>
  	<textarea name="message" rows="8" cols="35">Write Comment Here</textarea><br>
	<img src="scripts/captcha_image.php" /><br />
	<input type="text" name="captcha_input" size="15"><br />
  	<input type="submit" value="Send To Jam"/>
	</form>

PHP:

Code:

<?

session_start();



if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] <> "POST")

	die("You can only reach this page by posting from the html form");



if ($_POST["captcha_input"] == $_SESSION["pass"])

{


  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ; 

  mail( "XXX@hotmail.com", "POACHER 2008 - www.theworldofjam.com",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location:../thankyou.html" );    

       



} else {

	echo "Sorry, The CAPTCHA You Entered Was Incorrect.";
	echo "<br/>";
	echo "Please Go Back And Try Again.";

}

?>

Thanks In Advice!
...And I would gladly link to your site if you could help me

**Mr Pickles** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 10:14 PM

Jam, Do u know perl? as I have a better soloution using perl.

Quote:

The perl solution would be:

Quote:

## All query data is stored in %qs from a standard read/parse.
## Maximum number of pics allowed for upload?
$uploads_allowed = 2;
## If 0 images is not possible just start at 1.
if (! $qs{'num_pics'}) {
$form = qq¦
<form method="post" action="yourscript">
Please enter how many pics you will upload (if none, select 0.)
<select name="num_pics">
¦;
for $i (0..$uploads_allowed) {
$form .= qq¦<option value="$i">$i</option>\n¦;
}
$form .= qq¦
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Continue">
</form>
¦;
}
else {
$form = qq¦
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="yourscript">
<input type="hidden" name="num_pics" value="$qs{'num_pics'}">
¦;
## if number of pics is zero, it will do nothing here.
for $i (1..$qs{'num_pics'}) {
$label = 'File ' . $i;
$obj_name = 'file_' . $i;
$form .= qq¦$label: <input type="file" name="$obj_name"><br>\n¦;
}
$form .= qq¦
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="upload">
</form>
¦;

I dont know if any of this is helpful to you or not Jam?

**jam** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 12:39 PM

Thanks for the reply justin..
And no, I haven't even looked at perl before.

With this script, is there anyway of still using my capatcha thing with it?
And just wondering, how do I test that code out? Like hat format do I save it in?

Thanks

**Ash** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 02:09 PM

.pl or .cgi should work fine - you would have to have some kind of Perl / CGI loaded on your development box for it to wor.

abajan · #5 (**permalink**) 04-12-2008, 12:56 AM

Just one important question, jam: Are you using a free host for your site? If so, bear in mind that if they ever decide to disable PHP, the form will become unusable and you would have no recourse but to switch hosts.

There have been a couple of times where I've spent many hours building elaborate websites, including forms, that required PHP to function correctly, only to have the (free) host yank PHP because users started abusing the system and hogging resources.

By the way, PERL is said to be much more difficult to master than PHP but it's also said to be better by those "in the know". So, if you think you're up to it, more power to you! ;-)

**Ash** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-12-2008, 01:22 AM

The thing of course with Perl is that it does indeed use plenty of server resources, as opposed to PHP - if you can get something written in PHP rather than Perl, then you should do so.

**jam** · #7 (**permalink**) 04-12-2008, 03:42 PM

Yes, I have my own hosting space that I'm using.
And I had a go with the perl script, but I think I may of done something wrong, as it wasn't working :S

But anyways, I've decided not to use this idea anymore..
Thanks for the reply though!

Jam

**Ash** · #8 (**permalink**) 04-12-2008, 05:35 PM

PHP mail scripts work fine on the server, and so should Perl, unless your reseller has disabled it.

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