When i am filling my form it gives me a validation error but i’m not understanding why am i getting it even after filling the form correctly
and the php validation code is below: Please help me where am i going wrong!
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email_to = "mail@example.com";
$email_subject = "Mail from Digital Marketing Engiry form";
function died($error) {
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['occupation']) ||
!isset($_POST['education']) ||
!isset($_POST['age']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['occupation']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['education']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['age']; // not required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$occupation)) {
$error_message .= 'The occupation you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$education)) {
$error_message .= 'The education you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "occupation: ".clean_string($occupation)."\n";
$email_message .= "education: ".clean_string($education)."\n";
$email_message .= "age: ".clean_string($age)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- success html -->
<div style="border:1px solid #F60;background-color:#FFC;text-alignment:justify;width:200px;height:200px;padding:40px;"><p>Thank you for contacting us. <br/>We will get in touch with you.<p><p><a href="http://skymo-digiworld.com/enquiry.php">Go Back</a></p></div>
<?php
}
?>