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wordpress contact form

Hi

I am trying to develop a contact form on a wordpress page, but I dont want to use any plugins, just my own php/html.

All I want to do it post the form contents back to the same page, so that I can process the form using php (which is in the same page as the form) and either display errors or redirect to a thank you page. simples...

or maybe not...

The page displays perfectly, but whenever I click 'send' it returns back to my blog page, but the url is for the contact page?? kind of weird thing going on there...

I have the following form declaration:

<form id='contactform' method='post' action=''>

joeypolice

May I ask why you are not wanting to use any plugins? This is a great one which can be customized easily.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

-Joey

cycledude

ASKER

Reason is I have my own script with jquery and php to handle the processing, which I like more...

I have used contact for 7, and dont really like it...

joeypolice

You could try this: http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/8.html

Or, I have a simple PHP script that I have used several times which is easy to implement. I would be happy to email it to you.

jrm213jrm213

just to clarify,

you have a contact form on a page like www.yourblog.com/contact

you submit the page to itself

after submit it displays www.yourblog.com/contact in the url but is showing the page from www.yourblog.com

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cycledude

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@jrm213jrm213:

you got it mate, spot on

joeypolice

This is the HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Contact Form</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="contact.php" method="post">
	Your name<br>
    <input type="text" name="cf_name"><br>
	Your e-mail<br>
    <input type="text" name="cf_email"><br>
	Message<br>
    <textarea name="cf_message"></textarea><br>
	<input type="submit" value="Send">
	<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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cycledude

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@joeypolice

Thanks for the script mate, but like I say I have a pretty comprehensive one I developed myself, which uses jquery and php... I am more than happy with it, just getting wordpress to post to the same page is my problem.

joeypolice

Sorry, I misunderstood. :)

cycledude

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@joeypolice

No problem, thanks for your help ;o)

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cycledude

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@jrm213jrm213:

Thanks, tried it but it is the same....

this link has some info, but tried that and I get no page content other than the header when the form returns...

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-found-forms-posting-to-itself

cycledude

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@jrm213jrm213:

I am developing the page directly in the template, not in wordpress at all..

In wordpress I have a page called contact which is using the the template that I am manipulating in my dev tool

cycledude

ASKER

I have basically taken my contact from from my existing (non wordpress) website and pasted the code into the template-file... maybe this can't be done this way?

cycledude

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weird, this simple code works

<?php echo 'We have got: ' . $_POST['f1'] . ''; ?>
<form action="" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="f1" value="test"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>

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cycledude

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ok I am narrowing it down to an error in the php somewhere...

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jrm213jrm213

what do you mean it is throwing the page out?