I must've had a brain f*rt because I cannot remember how to do the first part and would really love to know the second part.

I created a form and I want certain input text fields filled in by the person before the form can be submitted, like firstname and email address or whatever (this is important), and then have a message appear someplace within the website in RED that states they must fill in certain fields or something to that effect (not as important, but nice to know).

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks a'bunch!
DianeD

Try having this in the PHP forum for a start. I am just getting to terms with PHP, but this is a little advanced for me.

For input boxes, I use this code:

<input type="text" name="namehere" value="valuehere" size="30" maxlength="30">

And for the message, you could just type regular text, and add a font tag. Like this:

<font color="#FF0000">Message here</font>

There's also a php script called NL-PHPmail from codegrrl.com that has a function you might want. It does not send the form if a certain field (or fields) isn't filled. You can visit this page http://codegrrl.com/scripts/nlphpmail/ for more information, and to download.

Yes, lil-cat-luver - that's how I created my form, too, but what happens when someone does NOT fill anything in - the form still gets sent to me.

I thought there was some sort of HTML that I can put in there that 'reminds' them to fill in the blank and not leave it. I thought I saw it somewhere and now I can't seem to find it. Drats!

Twitch - I wasn't looking for a PHP script, but perhaps that's the only way to accomplish what I need to do. Rats!! I don't know PHP to do this, but I guess this might be a way for me to learn!

DianeD

Diane, I don't think html codes can accomplish what you wanted. However, if you use NL-PHPMail, your forms will still be html forms, it would just be a php script that process the form. It's quite easy, because I don't know much about php either, and I still got it to work

Originally Posted by DianeD

Twitch - I wasn't looking for a PHP script, but perhaps that's the only way to accomplish what I need to do. Rats!! I don't know PHP to do this, but I guess this might be a way for me to learn!

DianeD

You can do also in Javascript.
For many free samples of PHP or Javascript then Goggling with "Form Validation"

Thanks for your help anyhow. I already have a PHP form mail script in place and it's working fine. Don't need another one.

DianeD

OK, so your existing php script has the warning message function as well? Anyways, as long as it works :P

Just an FYI (so that you all don't think I'm crazy) --->

I found exactly what I was looking for, and yes, it is a javascript, although the message doesn't appear in red, the little popup works fine. I thought I could do it another way,but I guess I can't. To see what I was talking about, go to my webpage here, and just go down and click on "Submit". You'll see what I mean.

I like to keep my pages cleansed from javascript within the actual page, so I create the javascripts as separate files and link them. They work fine and the HTML coding is cleaner and oh so much neater.

Thanks for your help,
DianeD