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matt25

Hi, I am trying to create a self referencing contact form in wordpress but I can't work out what to put in the post->action bit. I have tried everything I can think of like

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url')?>/contact-php

and things but everything comes back to page net found, what am I missing?

Bob

Are you sure the page exists? Also, you need to have permalinks set up and working, cause this is a permalink you're referring to. The way you do it now, the output would be:
http://example.com/contact-php

But if you don't have permalinks set up, it won't work. Check whether or not they are set up and see if this page really exists. Otherwise, try referencing it to some page you do know exists for sure, and add the extension to it, like this:
http://example.com/about.php
Or like <?php bloginfo('url')?>/about.php

matt25

The page defiantly exists, on the permalinks section in the pages it is '/contact-php' and when I go to the page directly it goes there
Cheers,
Matt

Bob

Can you please post your full code of the form? There might an error in your code, as I've just tried it with the following code, which works just fine:

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url')?>/?page_id=2">
<input type="submit" />
</form>

In the code you submitted in your first post, there is no " at the end, maybe thats why it doesn't work? Anyway, like I said, post your full code so we can see whats going on.

matt25

Here is the code:

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
	$emailFrom = strip_tags($_POST['email']);
	$emailTo = "matt@digital-spoon.co.uk";
	$subject = "Contact Form Submission";
	
	$name = strip_tags($_POST['name']); 
	$city = strip_tags($_POST['city']); 
	$email = strip_tags($_POST['email']); 
	$message = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['message'])); 
	
	$body = "Name: ".$name."\n";
	$body .= "City: ".$city."\n";
	$body .= "Email: ".$email."\n";
	$body .= "Message: ".$message."\n";
	
	$headers = "From: ".$emailFrom."\n";
	$headers .= "Reply-To:".$email."\n";	
	
	if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
		$success = mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
		if ($success){
		echo '<p class="yay">All is well, your e&ndash;mail has been sent.</p>';
		} 
	} else {
		echo '<p class="oops">Something went wrong</p>';
	}
} else {
?>

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/contact-php/" method="post" id="contact" name="contact">
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Contact form</legend>
        <label for="name">Name</label>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" class="required" minlength="2"/>
        
        <label for="city">City</label>
        <input type="text" id="city" name="city" class="required" minlength="2"/>
        
        <label for="email">E&ndash;mail</label>
        <input type="text" id="email" name="email" class="required email"/>
        
        <label for="message">Message</label>
        <textarea id="message" name="message" cols="50" rows="10" class="required"></textarea>
        

        <input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Send!" />
    </fieldset>
</form>

Cheers,
Matt

Bob

I can't really see an error there, do you have a live example?

Also, try testing it locally with MAMP or something like that, to see if that works. Might be something with your hosting.

matt25

www.digital-spoon.co.uk/contact-php/ is the site where I am testing on,
Cheers,
Matt

willB

Have you tried just using:

<form action="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" >

sspann

In case anyone finds this via search...

I encountered the same issue, and it has to do with the form field names. I believe Wordpress is interpereting either a POST or GET key value of 'name' as a post name to determine what wordpress page to show (resulting in a 404 error in most cases).

To verify if this is the issue, put in the slug of a post (like 'contact-php') in the name field, submit the form and see what happens (If it is a valid page/post slug, it should take you to that page).

Laters, Stephen

FurySting

@sspann Thanks! That was my issue. I should know better than to use common variable names by now.

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