Hello,
I’ve always been interested in creating a contact form, although I’ve never understood how to create the PHP file that verifies the fields and sends the form contents. I have searched for tutorials, although none really make a lot of sense to me, unfortunately. I love how the contact form works on this page:
Especially how the “Please Enter Your Name” etc. slide in if you do not complete the form properly. I would like to learn how I could do something that functions not unlike this one. Could anyone point me in the right direction? I am fine at designing and building the form on the page, but its the PHP file to send it (and the fancy “Please Enter Your Name” popups that I cannot get a handle on.
Validation was, in this case, some basic if statements in Javascript - I would usualy use jomething like the jQuery Validation plugin, but decided to keep it simple this time.
The tooltips are just poshytip for jQuery - look great, and easy to implement!
Server-side is quite simple too - just validating, checking for spam, then posting off the mail.
This site was a couple of days work - was quite lucky I didn’t need to support IE6!
I would recommend JQuery as it is quite simple to use, however, be warned… JQuery does a very good job of making a lot of javascript functions simple to implement, but you should still have a good underlying knowledge of javascript.
Without the background knowledge, things can get quite messy.
As with any framework - if you don’t understand what is behind the framework, then you probably won’t be using it to its full potential - in some cases, just working against it.
