Building Websites Create a fully functional Web contact form
What you'll learn
- create a web contact form
- understand how to add security checks to forms
- be able to send emails from a form to an address
- use jQuery to check fields in form
- validate form content on submission with PHP and jQuery
Course content
- Preview03:14
- 04:01Developer Resources
- Preview06:52
- 08:57Create form structure
- 09:18Add PHP session holder
- 00:42Source Code Contact Form
- 11:28PHP Get Post Data
- 05:21AnitSpam Check using PHP
- 07:03PHP send Email
- 04:31Upload file and send email to email address
- 02:04PHP form Fixes
- 01:16Source Code PHP mail
- 04:17jQuery Form Check setup
- 10:01jQuery Toggle Error messages
- 02:49Web Contact Form live Test
- 05:42Web Contact Form Tweaks and Adjustments
- 01:19Source Code Complete Project
- 00:02Course Resources
- 00:19Check to ensure sendmail is functioning
Requirements
- basics of HTML CSS jQuery and PHP
- computer access
Description
Web forms are a crucial communication format between your website visitors and you. This course will show you how to build one from scratch! Create a fully functional dynamic web contact form that can be used on any website to collect messages from visitors. Lets your web visitors send you email messages. This form comes complete with several layers of security checks to ensure spam and unwanted emails are not valid.
Form is HTML5 so depending on the input type HTML5 will check for validity.
Security question that get dynamically generated and needs to be filled out correctly before the form contents get sent to your email address
jQuery layer of form field input checks, to ensure all fields have values
PHP back end form Post checks, to ensure all fields have correct content and data can be sent to a selected email address. Also stores values on error so that the visitors don't have to re-enter the values.
Step by step training introducing all the core concepts and development steps to produce a web contact form. Source code is included so that you can follow along and try it out for yourself.
The course covers multiple approaches to form development, and the code is flexible enough to be updated and used for a more specific projects.
- HTML - used to setup the form structure
- CSS - used at a basic level to create limited styling
- Bootstrap - used to help style the form container
- jQuery - selecting elements, and looping values
- PHP - used to collect posted values, set variables, and send mail function.
See how all these languages can work together to create a complete project
This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about setting up a contact form on a website. Everything is included, from an instructor with over 18 years of web development experience.
I'm ready to answer any questions you may have, and here to help you learn about web development.
Who this course is for:
- web developers and designers
- anyone who wants to create dynamic content online
- anyone who needs to add a web form to their website
Instructor
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