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Keef on 04/06/09


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Form generator

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  1. <?php
  2. 	define('VALID_NOT_EMPTY', '/.+/');
  3. 	define('VALID_EMAIL', "/^[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[a-z]{2,4}|museum|travel)$/i");
  4. 	define('ALPHANUMERIC', '/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/');
  5.  
  6. 	function displayForm($form, $function) {	
  7. 		$errors = array();
  8.  
  9. 		if (!empty($_POST))
  10. 		{
  11. 			// Validate form and post it
  12. 			foreach ($form['fields'] as $field => $options)
  13. 			{
  14. 				if (is_array($options) && !empty($options['rule']))
  15. 				{
  16. 					// Remove all non-alphanumeric characters for the id/name
  17. 					$name = preg_replace(ALPHANUMERIC, null, strtolower($field));
  18.  
  19. 					if (!preg_match($options['rule'], $_POST[$name]))
  20. 					{
  21. 						$errors[] = $field;
  22. 					}
  23. 				}
  24. 			}
  25.  
  26. 			if (empty($errors)) {
  27. 				call_user_func($function, $_POST);
  28. 			}
  29. 		}
  30.  
  31. 		if (!empty($errors) || empty($_POST))
  32. 		{
  33. 			//Display any errors
  34. 			if (!empty($errors))
  35. 			{
  36. 				echo '<div class="errors">';
  37. 				echo 'There was an error processing your form, please check the following fields and resubmit:';
  38.  
  39. 				echo '<ul>';
  40. 				foreach($errors as $field)
  41. 				{
  42. 					echo sprintf('<li>%s</li>', $field);
  43. 				}
  44. 				echo '</ul>';
  45. 				echo '</div>';
  46. 			}
  47.  
  48. 			// Display the form
  49. 			echo '<form method="post" action="#">';
  50.  
  51. 			foreach ($form['fields'] as $field => $options)
  52. 			{
  53. 				// PHP will make the array key the keys index if it's not an array
  54. 				$name = is_array($options) ? $field : $options;
  55.  
  56. 				// Remove all non-alphanumeric characters for the id/name
  57. 				$form_name = preg_replace(ALPHANUMERIC, null, strtolower($name));
  58.  
  59. 				if ($form['escape'] == true) $name = htmlspecialchars($name);
  60.  
  61. 				echo sprintf('<label for="%s">%s: </label>', $form_name, $name);
  62.  
  63. 				// Default is a standard text input
  64. 				if (!is_array($options) || !isset($options['type']) || $options['type'] == 'text')
  65. 				{
  66. 					echo sprintf('<input type="text" id="%s" name="%s" value="%s" />', $form_name, $form_name, $_POST[$form_name]);
  67. 				} elseif ($options['type'] == 'textarea') {
  68. 					echo sprintf('<textarea id="%s" name="%s" cols="%s" rows="%s">%s</textarea>', $form_name, $form_name, $options['cols'], $options['rows'], $_POST[$form_name]);
  69. 				} elseif ($options['type'] == 'select') {
  70. 					echo sprintf('<select id="%s" name="%s">', $form_name, $form_name);
  71. 					foreach ($options['items'] as $item)
  72. 					{
  73. 						if ($form['escape'] == true) $item = htmlspecialchars($item);
  74.  
  75. 						echo sprintf('<option value="%s">%s</option>', $item, $item);
  76. 					}
  77. 					echo '</select>';
  78. 				}
  79. 				echo '<br />'. "\n";
  80. 			}
  81.  
  82. 			echo '<input type="submit" value="Send" />';
  83. 			echo '</form>';
  84. 		}
  85. 	}
  86. ?>

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Posted By: Keef on April 13, 2009

An example of use:

Posted By: Keef on April 13, 2009

// Your function that gets the data after the form is posted function emailForm($data, $email) { foreach($data as $key => $item) { $item = str_replace(htmlentities($item), "\n", ''); $message .= wordwrap(''. $key. ''. ":". $item. "", 70); }

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

mail($email, 'test', $message, $headers);

}

$form = array( 'escape' => true, 'fields' => array( 'First name' => array('rule' => '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'), 'Last name' => array('rule' => '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'), 'School/Company', 'Town', 'Country', 'Phone Number', 'Email Address' => array('rule' => VALIDEMAIL), 'Subject' => array('type' => 'select', 'items' => array('General', 'Equipment', 'Sales', 'Technical', 'Web')), 'Enquiry' => array('type' => 'textarea', 'cols' => 50, 'rows' => 10, 'rule' => VALIDNOT_EMPTY), ) );

displayForm($form, 'emailForm', array('[email protected]'));

Posted By: Keef on April 13, 2009

An example of use:

// Your function that gets the data after the form is posted
function emailForm($data, $email) {
    foreach($data as $key => $item)
    {
        $item = str_replace(htmlentities($item), "\n", '');
        $message .= wordwrap('<b>'. $key. '</b>'. ":". $item. "", 70);
    }

    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

    mail($email, 'test', $message, $headers);
}


$form = array(
            'escape' => true,
            'fields' => array(
                'First name' => array('rule' => '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'),
                'Last name' => array('rule' => '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'),
                'School/Company',
                'Town',
                'Country',
                'Phone Number',
                'Email Address' => array('rule' => VALID_EMAIL),
                'Subject' => array('type' => 'select', 'items' => array('General', 'Equipment', 'Sales', 'Technical', 'Web')),
                'Enquiry' => array('type' => 'textarea', 'cols' => 50, 'rows' => 10, 'rule' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY),
                )
            );

displayForm($form, 'emailForm', array('[email protected]'));

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