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So I'm trying to integrate a code example I found to my webpage to send values from a form straight to and email, but testing the code on it's own gives me an error 405 while using a localhost
This is the template I'm using
PHP script
<?php
if(!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
echo "error; you need to submit the form!";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$visitor_email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
//Validate first
if(empty($name)||empty($visitor_email))
{
echo "Name and email are mandatory!";
exit;
}
if(IsInjected($visitor_email))
{
echo "Bad email value!";
exit;
}
$email_from = '[email protected]';//<== update the email address
$email_subject = "New Form submission";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from the user $name.\n".
"Here is the message:\n $message".
$to = "[email protected]";//<== update the email address
$headers = "From: $email_from \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n";
//Send the email!
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//done. redirect to thank-you page.
header('Location: thank-you.html');
// Function to validate against any email injection attempts
function IsInjected($str)
{
$injections = array('(\n+)',
'(\r+)',
'(\t+)',
'(%0A+)',
'(%0D+)',
'(%08+)',
'(%09+)'
);
$inject = join('|', $injections);
$inject = "/$inject/i";
if(preg_match($inject,$str))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
?>
Html form
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP form to email sample form</title>
<!-- define some style elements-->
<style>
label,a
{
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
}
</style>
<!-- a helper script for vaidating the form-->
<script language="JavaScript" src="scripts/gen_validatorv31.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Start code for the form-->
<form method="post" name="myemailform" action="form-to-email.php">
<p>
<label for='name'>Enter Name: </label><br>
<input type="text" name="name">
</p>
<p>
<label for='email'>Enter Email Address:</label><br>
<input type="text" name="email">
</p>
<p>
<label for='message'>Enter Message:</label> <br>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
</p>
<input type="submit" name='submit' value="submit">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
// Code for validating the form
// Visit http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/javascript-form-validation.phtml
// for details
var frmvalidator = new Validator("myemailform");
frmvalidator.addValidation("name","req","Please provide your name");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email","Please enter a valid email address");
</script>
<p>
<a href='http://www.html-form-guide.com/email-form/php-form-to-email.html'
>PHP form to email article page</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Do I need to use an actual live hosting for this code to work? Are there any other ways that I can use to send HTML form values to email since I've heard this method would likely push the email to spam
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