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Form validation - error/success message placement

Asked by digitalPencil in PHP Scripting Language, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Macromedia Dreamweaver

Tags: , ,

Hi,

I've got a php mail form which uses a combination of javascript and php to validate form data.
The javascript traps errors using livevalidation and displays an asterix next to any empty fields and php traps any other errors like invalid email format, spamwords etc.

The problem is that, the asterix that should be displayed next to the message textarea, is displayed below it, and i would like to move the php success/error messages so they are center aligned instead of at the top of the page which is where they currently display.

I'm pretty new to php, so how would I center align the success/error messages? and, why does the textarea asterix display beneath it instead of displaying at the side?

The form's at davegrant.info/contact.php
and code is attached to this post.

Thanks
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<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{
        $error = '';
        $msg = '';
        $exploits = "/(content-type|bcc:|cc:|document.cookie|onclick|onload|javascript|alert)/i";
        $profanity = "/(beastial|bestial|blowjob|clit|cock|cum|cunilingus|cunillingus|cunnilingus|cunt|ejaculate|fag|felatio|fellatio|fuck|fuk|fuks|gangbang|gangbanged|gangbangs|hotsex|jism|jiz|kock|kondum|kum|kunilingus|orgasim|orgasims|orgasm|orgasms|phonesex|phuk|phuq|porn|pussies|pussy|spunk|xxx)/i";
        $spamwords = "/(viagra|phentermine|tramadol|adipex|advai|alprazolam|ambien|ambian|amoxicillin|antivert|blackjack|backgammon|texas|holdem|poker|carisoprodol|ciara|ciprofloxacin|debt|dating|porn)/i";
        $bots = "/(Indy|Blaiz|Java|libwww-perl|Python|OutfoxBot|User-Agent|PycURL|AlphaServer)/i";
        
        if (preg_match($bots, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
        {
        $error .= 'Known spam bots are not allowed.';
        }
        else
        {
                foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) 
                {
                $value = trim($value);
                
                        if (empty($value)) 
                        {
                        $msg .= 'Validation Error: Empty fields<br />';
                        } 
                        elseif (preg_match($exploits, $value)) 
                        {
                        $msg .= 'Validation Error: Malicious scripting attributes found!<br />';
                        } 
                        elseif (preg_match($profanity, $value) || preg_match($spamwords, $value)) 
                        {
                        $msg .= 'Validation Error: Profanity and/or spamwords found!<br />';
                        }
                        
                        $_POST[$key] = stripslashes(strip_tags($value));
                        }
                
                        if (!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,6})$",strtolower($_POST['email']))) 
                        {
                        $msg .= 'Validation Error: Invalid email format<br />';
                        }
                        
                        if($msg == '')
                        {
        
                        $recipient = "davegrant85@gmail.com";
                        $subject = "davegrant.info Contact Form";
                        
                        $message = "Contact form mail from davegrant.info: \n";
                        $message .= "Name: {$_POST['name']} \n";
                        $message .= "E-mail: {$_POST['email']} \n";
                        $message .= "Website: {$_POST['website']} \n";
                        $message .= "Feedback: {$_POST['comments']} \n";
                        
                        $headers = "From: davegrant.info <$recipient> \n";
                        $headers .= "Reply-To: <{$_POST['email']}>";
                        
                                if (mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers)) 
                                {
                                $msg .= 'Thank you! Your mail was successfully sent to the webmaster. Thank you for your time.';
                                } 
                                else 
                                {
                                $error .= 'Sorry, there was an error and your mail was not sent. Please find an alternative method of contacting the webmaster.';
                                }
                        }
                }
}
?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>davegrant - web &amp; graphic designer</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style_con.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="livevalidation.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style4 {
	font-size: 13px
}
.button {
	color: #fff;
	background: transparent;
	border: 1px solid #501936;
	padding:4px 15px 4px 15px;
}
input {
	background:none;
	background-color:transparent;
	border:1px solid #501936;
	padding:4px;
	margin-top:3px;
	font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, Sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#fff;
}
textarea {
	background:none;
	background-color:transparent;
	border:1px solid #501936;
	padding:4px;
	margin-top:3px;
	font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, Sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#fff;
	width:350px;
}
/* Validation Styles - Tweak as needed */
.LV_validation_message{
    font-weight:normal;
    margin:0 0 0 5px;
}
 
.LV_valid {
    color:#501936;
}
	
.LV_invalid {
    color:#7d3370;
}
    
.LV_valid_field,
input.LV_valid_field:hover, 
input.LV_valid_field:active,
textarea.LV_valid_field:hover, 
textarea.LV_valid_field:active {
    border: 1px solid #501936;
}
    
.LV_invalid_field, 
input.LV_invalid_field:hover, 
input.LV_invalid_field:active,
textarea.LV_invalid_field:hover, 
textarea.LV_invalid_field:active {
    border: 1px solid #7d3370;
}
-->
</style>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outside_container">
	<div id="container"> <a href="http://www.davegrant.info/"><img src="images/logo.jpg" width="286" height="50" id="logo" /></a>
		<ul id="menu">
			<li><a href="index.html">HOME</a></li>
			<li><a href="folio.html">PORTFOLIO</a></li>
			<li><a href="contact.php">CONTACT</a></li>
		</ul>
		<div id="content">
			<div class="column1">
				<h2>contact</h2>
				<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus non ligula nec sem posuere consectetuer. Proin sagittis diam sed sapien. Aliquam sem turpis, semper at, rhoncus in, aliquam at, lorem. Maecenas purus metus.</p>
			</div>
			<div class="column2">
				<p> name<br />
					address<br />
					address<br />
					address<br />
					address<br />
				</p>
			</div>
			<div class="column3">
				<p> email[at]email.com
					[00]00000001 </p>
			</div>
			<div class="column4">
				<?php 
				if((isset($msg)) && ($msg != ''))
				{
				echo '<p>' . $msg . '</p>' . "\n";
				}
				else
				{
					if((isset($error)) && ($error != '')) 
					{
					echo '<p>' . $error . '</p>' . "\n";
					}
					?>
					<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
                                                Name:<br>
                                                <input type="text" id="name" name="name"<?php if(isset($_POST['name'])){echo ' value="' . $_POST['name'] . '"';} ?> class="required">
                                                <br>
                                                <script type="text/javascript">
                                                var name = new LiveValidation('name');
                                                name.add( Validate.Presence );
                                                </script>
                                                <br />
                                                
												Email:<br>
                                                <input type="text" id="email" name="email"<?php if(isset($_POST['name'])){echo ' value="' . $_POST['email'] . '"';} ?> class="required">
                                                <br>
                                                <script type="text/javascript">
                                                var name = new LiveValidation('email');
                                                name.add( Validate.Presence );
                                                </script>
                                                <br />
												
                                                Website:<br>
                                                <input type="text" id="website" name="website"<?php if(isset($_POST['website'])){echo ' value="' . $_POST['website'] . '"';} ?> class="required">
                                                <br>
                                                <script type="text/javascript">
                                                var website = new LiveValidation('website');
                                                website.add( Validate.Presence );
                                                </script>
                                                <br />
                                                Message:<br>
                                                <textarea id="comments" name="comments" rows="10" cols="30"><?php if(isset($_POST['comments'])){echo $_POST['comments'];} ?></textarea>
                                                <br>
                                                <script type="text/javascript">
                                                var comments = new LiveValidation('comments');
                                                comments.add( Validate.Presence );
                                                </script>
                                                <br />
                                                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" class="button">
                                        </form>
				<?php } ?>
			</div>
			<div style="clear:both"></div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"> <img src="images/footer_logo.png" width="124" height="24" /> <span id="footer_text"> Portfolio for web and graphic designer, Dave Grant.<br />
	To find out more, <a href="folio.html">See my Work</a>, 
	or <a href="contact.html">Contact</a> me</span> </div>
</body>
</html>
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