I have a PHP email form and the user enters their email and it sends them the link to the file they uploaded. How would I submit that form with AJAX?
Right now, I have it where they click on a link to go to the page with the email form on it, and I am passing the $target_path variable in the URL so the link to the uploaded file can be in the email. Here's the PHP I have on the "Successfully uploaded" page to go to email.php:
<?php echo "<a href='email.php?target_path=".$target_path."'>Click here</a> to get the link sent to your email." ?>
Here's the source of email.php:
<html>
<head>
<title>Upload File</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family:arial,sans-serif;
}
.error {
color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
function spamcheck($field)
{
//filter_var() sanitizes the e-mail
//address using FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL
$field=filter_var($field, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
//filter_var() validates the e-mail
//address using FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL
if(filter_var($field, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
{//if "email" is filled out, proceed
//check if the email address is invalid
$mailcheck = spamcheck($_REQUEST['email']);
if ($mailcheck==FALSE)
{
echo "Invalid email, please try again.";
}
else
{//send email
$to = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$subject = "Your file has been uploaded to our site and here's a link to it" ;
$message = "
Hello,
Your file has been uploaded to our site. Here is a link to it for future reference, keep this email if you want to remember the link to your file: http://www.example.com/upload/".$_REQUEST['target_path']."
Thank you.";
mail($to,$subject,$message, "From: noreply@example.com" );
echo "Email has been sent. Please check your inbox and/or spam folder.";
}
}
else
{//if "email" is not filled out, display the form
echo "<form method='post' action=''>
Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br /><br />
<input type='submit' />
</form>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
As you can see, when they click the link to go to email.php on the "Successfully Uploaded File" page (upload.php) it passes the $target_path variable so it will be able to send a link to the uploaded file.
I would like to put the email form right on upload.php (the page where the file upload form gets submitted to) and then submit that email form with jQuery AJAX. I just don't know how to make that work. I'll also need that variable to still be passed, but I don't think it would be in the URL, it would probably be in somewhere else in the AJAX code.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan
