This lesson demonstrates how to create a secure email contact form for users to use on your site. There are 8 video lessons in this series.
To get the starting file, you can download the attachment file (“contact_01.php.zip“) to this video. Additionally, you can start with the style sheet, as well (contact.css).
Email Form – Part 1 (16:10)
This movie covers the following topics:
- Setting up the basic form in “contact_01.php” file
- Delineation between different form tags and their attributes
- $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] as the form action
Email Form – Part 2 (9:55)
This movie covers the following topics:
- working within the “contact_01.php” file
- The difference between $_POST and $_GET
Email Form – Part 3 (18:27)
This movie covers the following topics:
- working in the “contact_01.php” file
- the mail() function
- sending email with a basic, insecure, non-validating form
Email Form – Part 4 (11:26)
This movie covers the following topics:
- the completion of “contact_01.php”
- basic error reporting
- initiation of “contact_02.php”
Email Form – Part 5 (21:43)
This movie covers the following topics:
- stripslashes()
- completion of “contact_02.php” file
- initiation of “contact_03.php” file
Email Form – Part 6 (47:15)
This movie covers the following topics:
- specific field error reporting
- in_array()
- array_push()
- htmlentities()
- completion of “contact_03.php” file
- initiation of “contact_04.php” file
Email Form – Part 7 (36:03)
This movie covers the following topics:
- start and end “contact_04.php”
- preg_match() and regular expressions intro
- security code for spam
- security for email validation
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- $checkMail = ‘/^[^@]+@[^\s\r\n\'”;,@%]+$/’;
For more information on regular expressions and a healthy dose of self-punishment, visit:
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Email Form – Part 8 (14:04)
This movie covers the following topics:
- adding additional headers to your script (From:, Reply-To:, Cc:, Bcc:, etc).