Coding a PHP contact form (was re: WordPress)

benbrown

Hello fellow Wordpressers. I am using Wordpress too. I have a little problem though at the moment and I am looking for a fix for it. I want to create a quick contact me form on the home page of a website. I don't necessarily want to use a plugin. I have set the form up in the html <form>action="process_form" method="post"</form> etc. I then want to create the process_form.php page when I create this page using a .php page from wordpress the form does not seem to be able to find the process_form.php page and I get an error Page Not Found 404 when the form is filled in and submitted. Any suggestions? I can PM people the site name and let you take a look at it if possible. Thanks Ben

Kenny Logins

Why not use a plugin?

zom

benbrown wrote: »

form does not seem to be able to find the process_form.php page

Is your action="process_form" link correct? First check if it points correctly - add it to some text and then see if link works fine.
Another thing is that usually process_form.php is only managing data sending and you should have one hidden input like that:

[FONT=tahoma, arial]<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="redirect" value="http://www.server.com/formsent.html&quot;>[/FONT]

to point user to website you want him to go after submit form.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Make sure to activate Akismet, or you'll spend your whole life deleting spam comments.

Trojan

There's a load of reasons why a PHP form may not be working, you'll need to go through all the possibilities (or just use a plugin).

Dave!

Post up the relevant code