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PHP

Posted by Brandon Beard
Brandon Beard
9,495 Points

Extra Credit: Re-Displaying the Submission

Does anyone have any ideas about how to implement the extra credit items on this exercise?

Extra Credit Instead of showing only the highest-priority error message, it might be nice to display all the error messages

Make the $error_message variable an array instead of a simple piece of text. Change the validation so that it runs all the checks, even after it encounters an error. Change the code that displays the error message to use a foreach loop that goes through all the elements in the error message array and display them.

1 Answer

Brandon Beard
Brandon Beard
9,495 Points
Brandon Beard
Brandon Beard
9,495 Points 
<?php 

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    $name = trim($_POST["name"]);
    $email =  trim($_POST["email"]);
    $message =  trim($_POST["message"]);
     $error_message = array();

    if($name == "" OR $email == "" OR $message == ""){
        $error_message[] = "Name, Email, and or Message is blank!";

    }
    {
    foreach($_POST as $value){
        if( stripos($value,'Content-Type')!== FALSE ){
            $error_message[] = "Error!";

        }
      }  
    }
        if($_POST["address"] != ""){
            $error_message[] = "Your not human";
        }

        require_once("inc/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
        $mail = new PHPMailer();

        if (!$mail->ValidateAddress($email)){
            $error_message[] = "Please enter a valid email!";

        }   
if(!isset($error_message)){
    $email_body = "";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Name: " . $name . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Email: " . $email . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Message: " . $message;

    //Create a new PHPMailer instance
    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    //Set who the message is to be sent from
    $mail->SetFrom($email, $name);
    //Set who the message is to be sent to
    $address = "bdini.beard@gmail.com";
    $mail->AddAddress($address, 'Shirts 4 Mike');
    //Set the subject line
    $mail->Subject = 'Shirts 4 Mike Contact Forum |' . $name;
    //Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded, convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
    $mail->MsgHTML($email_body);
    //Send the message, check for errors
    if($mail->Send()) {
     header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");
     exit;
    }else{
        $error_message = "There was a problem sending the forum " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        }
    }
}
?><?php 
$pageTitle = "Contact Mike";
$section = "contact";
$activeState = "contact";
include('inc/header.php'); ?>

    <div class="section page">

        <div class="wrapper">

            <h1>Contact</h1>

                <?php

                    if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND $_GET["status"] == "thanks") { ?>

                        <p>We will be in touch shortly</p>

                <?php } else { ?>


                <?php 
                 if(!isset($error_message)){
                    echo '<p>I&rsquo;d love to hear from you! Complete the form to send me an email.</p>';

                 }else{?><p class="message">
                     <?php 
                     foreach ($error_message as $error) {
                         echo $error;
                     }
                 } 

                  ?>
                    </p>

                <form method="post" action="contact.php">

                    <table>
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <label for="name">Name</label>
                            </th>
                            <td>
                                <input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php if(isset($name)){ echo htmlspecialchars($name);} ?>">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <label for="email">Email</label>
                            </th>
                            <td>
                                <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php if(isset($email)){echo htmlspecialchars($email);} ?>">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <label for="message">Message</label>
                            </th>
                            <td>
                                <textarea name="message" id="message"><?php if(isset($message)){echo htmlspecialchars($message);} ?></textarea>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr style="display: none;">
                            <th>
                                <label for="address">Address</label>
                            </th>
                            <td>
                                <input type="text" name="address" id="address">
                                <p>Humans please leave this empty or else.....</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>                    
                    </table>
                    <input type="submit" value="Send">

                </form>
            <?php } ?>


        </div>

    </div>
    </div>
<?php include('inc/footer.php') ?>