Hi Techies,
iam new bie.we are running a HTMl website.i implemented a Contact form and seding an email by using the PHP send email fucntionality.please see below code.
PhP form code:
<?php
$errors = '';
$myemail = 'sample@sample.com';//<-----Put Your email address here.
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['message']))
{
$errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address))
{
$errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}
if( empty($errors))
{
$to = $myemail;
$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message. ".
" Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message";
$headers = "From: $myemail\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//redirect to the 'thank you' page
header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact form handler</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- This page is displayed only if there is some error -->
<?php
echo nl2br($errors);
?>
</body>
</html>
HTML Code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact us</title>
<!-- define some style elements-->
<style>
h1
{
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 16px;
font-weight : bold;
}
label,a
{
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
}
</style>
<!-- a helper script for vaidating the form-->
<script language="JavaScript" src="scripts/gen_validatorv31.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Contact us</h1>
<form method="POST" name="contactform" action="contact-form-handler.php">
<p>
<label for='name'>Your Name:</label> <br>
<input type="text" name="name">
</p>
<p>
<label for='email'>Email Address:</label> <br>
<input type="text" name="email"> <br>
</p>
<p>
<label for='message'>Message:</label> <br>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
</p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><br>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
// Code for validating the form
// Visit http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-fo ... tion.phtml
// for details
var frmvalidator = new Validator("contactform");
frmvalidator.addValidation("name","req","Please provide your name");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email","Please enter a valid email address");
</script>
<!--
Sample code from:
http://www.html-form-guide.com/contact- ... -form.html
-->
</body>
</html>
when i run this code on my server it is given the following error.please see below.
HTTP Error 405.0 - Method Not Allowed
The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) is being used.
Error code:{0x80070001
the server is windows server 2008/IIS7.do i need to check that server allows PHP code?if so please let me know what to install and how to check the server is PHP is installed?
please advice.
thanks,
Nagaraju.

