Realtree

good to go.

i see you tested the form out.
only thing i havent figured out. is that  the last line in the form.php code had a redirect script. i was trying to get it to popup instead. but im sure we want something nicer, like a css div that shows or something next to completion of the submit button. let me know what you think on that.

yeah, thtsa pretty common, they either redirect to a 'success' screen, or they do it inline, we need one that does it inline so they not leave the site page they are on.  often you can get one that will just add like text below the submit button that says something like 'message sent', thats what i prefer

play with this and get it working, do it first before cccd, ecsp being that insta/twitter thing being such a pain

cant figure this part out....

http://client.fleeangrybear.com/realtree/glendale/index.html

dont fill in any of the fields and hit 'submit'.
it hovers a popup box 'please fill in this field' .....

where in the HELL is that box at.

not in the php. only a few lines there.
html is all simple form fields.
css is just simple box styling and bg colors

built into jquery

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=required%3D%20required%20jquery

notice the required="required" on each field.  that triggers jquery to know you need to do it before it is submitted, and that field you are seeing is default jquery stuff, its prob grabbing that little image from some jquery cdn, and the rest is made with css in jquery

what. wheres the jquery header tag though. hows it know what 'required' refers to language wise being that vague in terminology.

just is.  jquery does all kinda of crazy stuff.  required isnt a html normal keyword or anything.  i didnt know what was up either, so i looked at the html/php, and noticed there was not validation, so then i looked at the fields to see if anythign looked weird, noticed that required variable, googled it, found outs

weird. esp to be tied to something as oldschool as a bare bones form input field.

ok found some code to show/hide certain divs.
everyone said has to be done via AJAX but this guy is just using php somehow.

here's his example. if you leave a field out and hit submit you see its showing a red bg error div with all the missing fields listed.

http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/php/one-webpage-php-contact-form.php

heres the code broken apart.


important parts:

css-

.message {
background: red;
color:#088a08;
}
.message.error {
background:#f5a9a9;
color:#610b0b;
}

the 2 success/fail div params

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html-

<?php print $OUTPUT; ?>

looks like this is a placeholder till after the button is pressed then it populates the output with appropriate div.


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php sender-

        if( sendEmail( $mailConfig,$formFields ) ){
            $OUTPUT = successMessage();
        }else{
            $OUTPUT = failureMessage();
        }

if all fields are good and mail sent then go ahead and push successMessage div to ouput


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php config-

function successMessage(){
    $message = "Your message was sent successfully - expect a reply soon!  Thank you!";
    return "<div class='message'>$ message</div>";
}

function failureMessage(){
    $message = "We're sorry, we were unable to send your message.  Please try again.";
    return "<div class='message error'>$message</div>";
}


txt to put in called div class

does it work/on server?

there nothign wrong with ajax, all it really is, is js

still trying to figure out how to tie it into my simple php form i was using before. may be easier just to use his complete form rather than modify it into mine? he just has validation fields and stuff where mine doesnt and since i'm adding a few more fields i didnt want to screw something up.
just wanted to get that show/hide out of it.

use his if you can get same form fields, whatever is easiest to get working and meet our needs

updated glendale with updated form.
weird. all the timestamps i had on my local file glendale folder were all 7/30. so shows that i transfered them down at same time from sever. but server was showing old files.