Had a simple form script that suddenly stopped working

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

It was made about a year ago and had been working fine. Last time it was known to work for sure was in early October. I got a message from someone saying they didn't think it work and I tried it through both Firefox and IE and it didn't work.

What it does do right now is load up fine but when you fill out the form and hit submit it just clears the form. Since it's having the same issue on two different browsers I'm wondering if maybe my host (yahoo) did something or if it's some universal browser change. Any help would be great because I don't see anything wrong with it but I'm far from an expert. I just need to get it working again.

Also here is the website to where it is if you want to see how it acts.

http://www.thebrocadeblackbird.com/ then click on anything and then go to consultation.


Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
head { margin: 0 0 0 0 }
body { margin: 0 0 0 0 }
img
{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:20px;
}
div.alertone
{
position:absolute;
top:10px;
left:295px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.alerttwo
{
position:absolute;
top:30px;
left:68px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.alertthree
{
position:absolute;
top:10px;
left:45px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.one
{
position:absolute;
top:35px;
right:355px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.two
{
position:absolute;
top:35px;
right:50px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.three
{
position:absolute;
top:74px;
right:355px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.four
{
position:absolute;
top:72px;
right:103px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.five
{
position:absolute;
top:112px;
right:355px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.six
{
position:absolute;
top:112px;
right:50px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.seven
{
position:absolute;
top:145px;
right:505px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.eight
{
position:absolute;
top:145px;
right:48px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.nine
{
position:absolute;
top:73px;
right:50px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.submit
{
position:absolute;
top:240px;
right:60px;
z-index: 1;
}
div.required
{
position:absolute;
top:338px;
right:285px;
font-size: 85%;
color: #808284;
z-index: 1;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
# ATTENTION! - IF YOU COPY THIS CODE, CHANGE THE NEXT LINE!
$to = "design@thebrocadeblackbird.com";
$ask = 0;
if (($FName == "") && ($Email == "") && ($PriPhone == "") && ($TimeContact == "") && ($TypeEvent == "") && ($DateEvent == "") && ($Additional == ""))
{
$ask = 1;
}
elseif (($FName == "") || ($Email == "") || ($TypeEvent == "") || ($DateEvent == ""))
{
$ask = 1;
echo "<div class='alertone'>You missed some fields.</div>";
}
if ($ask == 1)
{
echo "
<img src='Consultation_BlueBox.jpg' />
<form name='form' method='post' action='Formmiddle.php'>
<div class='one'><font color='#808284'>*</font>Name <input type='text' name='FName' value='$FName' size='20'></div>
<div class='two'><font color='#808284'>*</font>E-Mail Address <input type='text' name='Email' value='$Email' size='20'></div>
<div class='three'>Phone Number <input type='text' name='PriPhone' value='$PriPhone' size='20'></div>
<div class='four'>Best Time to Contact <input type='text' name='TimeContact' value='$TimeContact' size='11'></div><div class='nine'><select name='AMPM' value='$AMPM'><option value='AM'>am</option><option value='PM'>pm</option></select></div>
<div class='five'><font color='#808284'>*</font>Type of Event <input type='text' name='TypeEvent' value='$TypeEvent' size='20'></div>
<div class='six'><font color='#808284'>*</font>Date of Event <input type='text' name='DateEvent' value='$DateEvent' size='20'></div>
<div class='seven'>Additional Notes </div><div class='eight'><textarea name='Additional' rows='4' cols='54' wrap='hard'>$Additional</textarea></div>
<div class='required'>*required fields</div>";

echo "<div class='submit'><input type='image'SRC='SubmitBox.jpg'></div>";
echo "</form>";
}
else
{
$message = "Name: $FNamenE-mail: $EmailnPrimary Phone: $PriPhonenBest Time to Contact: $TimeContact $AMPMnType of Event: $TypeEventnDate of Event: $DateEventn Additional: $Additionaln";
$eLog="/tmp/mailError.log";
//Get the size of the error log
//ensure it exists, create it if it doesn't
$fh= fopen($eLog, "a+");
fclose($fh);
$originalsize = filesize($eLog);

mail ($to, "Website Email", $message);

/*
* NOTE: PHP caches file status so we need to clear
* that cache so we can get the current file size
*/
clearstatcache();
$finalsize = filesize($eLog);

//Check if the error log was just updated
if ($originalsize != $finalsize) {
print "<div class='alertthree'>There was a problem sending the mail. Please try again later or send the message to<a href="$to">$to</a> using your own mail client progam.</div>";
} else {
echo "<div class='alerttwo'>Thank you for your interest in The Brocade Blackbird. You will be contacted shortly.</div> <img src='Consultation_BlueBox.jpg' />";
}
}

?>


</body>
</html>

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