Email validation
Invisible spam protection
Better empty checks
Sanitizing of values submitted
No jquery, substituted some better php errors
Email headers to correct the from address and name
No html message

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Jordan

Regards.

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<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//create an empty errors array
$errors = array();
//our form has been submitted
if($_POST['name'] == "") {
//the name field is empty
$errors[] = "The name field is empty";
}
if($_POST['date of birth'] == "") {
//the Date of Birth field is empty
$errors[] = "The date of birth field is empty";
}
if($_POST['email'] == "") {
//the email field is empty
$errors[] = "The email field is empty";
}
if($_POST['copy and paste your work here'] == "") {
//the copy and paste your work here field is empty
$errors[] = "The copy and paste your work here field is empty";
}
if($_POST['comment'] == "") {
//the comment field is empty
$errors[] = "The comment field is empty";
}
if(!stripos($_POST['email'], '@')) {
$errors[] = "The email address was not valid";
}
if($_POST['spam'] != 42) {
$errors[] = "The Spam question was answered incorrectly";
}
if(count($errors) == 0) {
$sendto = "vernonstallins@yahoo.com";
$title = "Submit your work";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$dateofbirth = $_POST['date of birth'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$paste your work in the text box below = $_POST['copy and paste your work in the text box below'];
$choice = $_POST['choice'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];
$message = <<<DATA
Name: $name
date of birth: $date of birth
Email: $email
Paste your work in the text box below: $Paste your work in the text box below
Choice: $choice
Comment: $comment
DATA;

if(mail($sendto, $title, $message)) {
$success = true;
}
}else {
$success = false;
}
else {
$success = false;
}
}
?>

Submit your work
.style1 {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
font-size: medium;
}
.style2 {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
font-size: medium;
margin-left: 40px;
}
.style3 {
margin-left: 40px;
}
.style5 {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
font-size: x-large;
}

Submit one of your works to be posted on

Day Dream Reading!

If your worked is deemed to contain plagiarized and/or offensive material then it will not be posted.

Name

Date of Birth

Email
   
What kind of work would you like to submit?
<option >poem
<option >story
<option
>essay<option >other
 
Paste your work in the text box below.

   
 
In your comment please specify what contact info you would like added to your works, if any.

Such as Telephone number, e-mail, etc. Thanks.
Comment
   
Please answer the below question to prove you are not a computer. Thanks.    
What is 6 x 7?

any ideas i would really appreciate explaination of the if(mail()) {} fuction i get what it is doing but i dont see what its condition is?

many thanks
darren