13Feb/102
How to add a simple guest book to your site
So How to add a simple guest book to your site? The code below will help visitors to your site to read your guestbook entries and post a message of their own. Very simple setup, only requires you to change 4 settings. This code uses MySQL to store the entries.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 | <?php/*** Create the table in your MySQL database:** CREATE TABLE guests (* id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,* name varchar(50) NOT NULL,* message varchar(255) NOT NULL,* date timestamp(14) NOT NULL,* PRIMARY KEY (id)* )** Change the database login settings to your own** The script is now ready to run*/// Change these to your own database settings$host = "localhost";$user = "username";$pass = "password";$db = "database";mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) OR die ("Could not connect to the server.");mysql_select_db($db) OR die("Could not connect to the database.");$name = stripslashes($_POST['txtName']);$message = stripslashes($_POST['txtMessage']);if (!isset($_POST['txtName'])) {$query = "SELECT id, name, message, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%D %M, %Y @ %H:%i') as newdate FROM guests ORDER BY id DESC";$result = mysql_query($query);while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {?><p><strong><?php echo $row->message; ?></strong><br />Posted by <?php echo $row->name; ?> on <?php echo $row->newdate; ?></p><?php }?><p>Post a message</p><form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><p><label for="txtName">Name:</label><br /><input type="text" title="Enter your name" name="txtName" /></p><p><label for="txtMessage">Your message:</label><br /><textarea title="Enter your message" name="txtMessage"></textarea></p><p><label title="Send your message"><input type="submit" value="Send" /></label></p></form><?php}else {// Adds the new entry to the database$query = "INSERT INTO guests SET message='$message', name='$name', date=NOW()";$result = mysql_query($query);// Takes us back to the entries$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];header ("Location: $ref");}?> |
The code above is referenced from http://www.totallyphp.co.uk
13Feb/100
How to make an e-mail contact form on your website?
This is a simple form mail PHP script that displays a contact form to enable visitors to your site to send the website administrator a message via email. Built in security will prevent spammers hijacking it from another domain.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 | <?php/*** Change the email address to your own.** $empty_fields_message and $thankyou_message can be changed* if you wish.*/// Change to your own email address$your_email = "you@example.com";// This is what is displayed in the email subject line// Change it if you want$subject = "Message via your contact form";// This is displayed if all the fields are not filled in$empty_fields_message = "<p>Please go back and complete all the fields in the form.</p>";// This is displayed when the email has been sent$thankyou_message = "<p>Thankyou. Your message has been sent.</p>";// You do not need to edit below this line$name = stripslashes($_POST['txtName']);$email = stripslashes($_POST['txtEmail']);$message = stripslashes($_POST['txtMessage']);if (!isset($_POST['txtName'])) {?><form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><p><label for="txtName">Name:</label><br /><input type="text" title="Enter your name" name="txtName" /></p><p><label for="txtEmail">Email:</label><br /><input type="text" title="Enter your email address" name="txtEmail" /></p><p><label for="txtMessage">Your message:</label><br /><textarea title="Enter your message" name="txtMessage"></textarea></p><p><label title="Send your message"><input type="submit" value="Send" /></label></p></form><?php}elseif (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($message)) {echo $empty_fields_message;}else {// Stop the form being used from an external URL// Get the referring URL$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];// Get the URL of this page// If the referring URL and the URL of this page don't match then// display a message and don't send the email.if ($referer != $this_url) {echo "You do not have permission to use this script from another URL.";exit;}// The URLs matched so send the emailmail($your_email, $subject, $message, "From: $name <$email>");// Display the thankyou messageecho $thankyou_message;}?> |
The code is referenced from http://www.totallyphp.co.uk
22Jul/095
Here is how you can implement the code to your website
Here is how you can implement the code to your website