One of the first things I wanted to configure on this site was a contact form. I searched and found that Iain Houston documented how he configured one. I took his ideas and implemented my own slightly different version.
Where he used a separate template, I chose to use the base template and create a Pelican page for my contact form.
The contents of my content/pages/contact.md file are shown here. This results in a page being created at /pages/contact/index.html, which I then added to MENUITEMS.
Title: Contact me
Slug: contact
<div class="col-md-12">
<header class=jumbotron>
<h1>Contact me</h1>
<p>I'd love to hear from you.</p>
</header>
<form method="post" action="/php/submit.php">
<div class="form-group col-md-6">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-md-6">
<input type="email" class="form-control validate email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Enter email" required>
</div>
<p class="antispam">
Leave this empty:
<br />
<input name="url" />
</p>
<div class="form-group col-md-12">
<textarea class="form-control" rows="5" name="message" placeholder="Message" required></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-md-3 offset-md-3">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
The content/php/submit.php file is similarly simple:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['url']) && $_POST['url'] == ''){
//The form was submitted
$ouremail = 'your@email.com';
// Important: if we add any form fields to the HTML,
// and want them included in the email, we will need to add them here also
$body = "This is the form that was just submitted:
Name: $_POST[name]
E-Mail: $_POST[email]
Message: $_POST[message]";
// From:
// Use the submitters email if they supplied one
// (and it isn't trying to hack our form).
// Otherwise send from our email address.
if( $_POST['email'] && !preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $_POST['email']) ) {
$headers = "From: $_POST[email]";
} else {
$headers = "From: $ouremail";
}
// finally, send the message
mail($ouremail, 'Contact Form submitted', $body, $headers );
header('Location: /pages/thank-you/');
}
?>
You will also need a thank-you page. Here's mine, saved as content/pages/thankyou.md:
Title: Thank you for contacting me
slug: thank-you
Your message has been sent.
Iain's script implements simple spam control. To use it properly, you need to add some custom CSS so that the antispam field is hidden from view:
.antispam { display:none;}
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