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I have 5 websites over the last 20 years but am just beginning to investigate php. Not too successfully though. I’m experimenting with the simple of task of emailing a form from a website. Not working in any browser.
Any suggestions? Help, criticism (I weep easily) words of encouragement? Do I have the right files in the right place? The error I receive is:
[I]File not found
Firefox can’t find the file at /C:/Users/Duane/AppData/Local/Temp/send_form_email.php.
Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
[/I]
I’ve put up a test folder on one of my websites (/test) whose contents are:
Files in folder
.htaccess
index.html
send_form_email.php
testor.html
The index.html file contains the mail form (as does testor.html)
The contents of the .htaccess file are:
[code]
RewriteEngine on
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>
deny from 186.96.184.88
deny from 144.76.185.173
deny from 79.213.89.125
deny from 110.85.102.56
deny from 27.159.207.57
deny from 27.159.211.0
deny from 46.105.135.238
deny from 59.60.213.150
The contents of the “send_form_email.php” are: (copied from a sample on the web)
[code]
<!DOCTYPE php>
<?php
if(isset($_POST[’email’])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = “[email protected]”;
$email_subject = “Form Response”;
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo “We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. “;
echo “These errors appear below.<br /><br />”;
echo $error.”<br /><br />”;
echo “Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />”;
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST[‘first_name’]) ||
!isset($_POST[‘last_name’]) ||
!isset($_POST[’email’]) ||
!isset($_POST[‘telephone’]) ||
!isset($_POST[‘comments’])) {
died(‘We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.’);
}
$first_name = $_POST[‘first_name’]; // required
$last_name = $_POST[‘last_name’]; // required
$email_from = $_POST[’email’]; // required
$telephone = $_POST[‘telephone’]; // not required
$comments = $_POST[‘comments’]; // required
$error_message = “”;
$email_exp = ‘/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/’;
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />’;
}
$string_exp = “/^[A-Za-z .’-]+$/”;
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />’;
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />’;
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= ‘The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />’;
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = “Form details below.nn”;
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array(“content-type”,”bcc:”,”to:”,”cc:”,”href”);
return str_replace($bad,””,$string);
}
$email_message .= “First Name: “.clean_string($first_name).”n”;
$email_message .= “Last Name: “.clean_string($last_name).”n”;
$email_message .= “Email: “.clean_string($email_from).”n”;
$email_message .= “Telephone: “.clean_string($telephone).”n”;
$email_message .= “Comments: “.clean_string($comments).”n”;
// create email headers
$headers = ‘From: ‘.$email_from.”rn”.
‘Reply-To: ‘.$email_from.”rn” .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!– include your own success html here –>
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>