jQuery and php Progressive Form Example

Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: php | Tags: jquery, php, progressive enhancement | No Comments »

How to use php and jquery to submit a form. This form features progressive enhancement meaning that if the client has javascript disabled the form will still function.

First the form, written in php:

 
<?php
function DisplayForm($values, $errors){
?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Progressive Enhancement</title>
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="progressive.js"></script> 
</head>
<body>
<div id="contact_form">
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" id="contact">
 
	<div id="top_message" class="top_message">
	<?php echo (count($errors)>0) ? '<span class="required_show">Please enter required information</span>' : 'Enter Your Information Below' ?>
	</div>
 
	<div class="container">
 
		<div class="spacer" id="spacer">
		&nbsp;
		</div>
 
		<div id="form">
			<div class="row">
			  <span class="label">Name:</span>
			  <span class="input_span"><input size="30" <?php echo (ISSET($errors['name_check'])) ? 'class="missing"' : '' ?> maxlength="30" name="name" id="name" value="<?php echo htmlentities($values['name']) ?>" ></span>
			  <span id="name_error" <?php echo (ISSET($errors['name_check'])) ? 'class="required_show"' : 'class="required_hide"' ?> >(required)</span>
			</div>
 
			<div class="row">
			  <span class="label">Email:</span>
			  <span class="input_span"><input size="30" <?php echo (ISSET($errors['email_check'])) ? 'class="missing"' : '' ?> maxlength="30" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo htmlentities($values['email']) ?>"></span>
			  <span id="email_error" <?php echo (ISSET($errors['email_check'])) ? 'class="required_show"' : 'class="required_hide"' ?> >(required)</span>
			</div>
 
			<div class="row">
			  <span class="label">Phone:</span>
			  <span class="input_span"><input size="15" <?php echo (ISSET($errors['phone_check'])) ? 'class="missing"' : '' ?> maxlength="15" name="phone" id="phone" value="<?php echo htmlentities($values['phone']) ?>"></span>
			  <span id="phone_error"  <?php echo (ISSET($errors['phone_check'])) ? 'class="required_show"' : 'class="required_hide"' ?> >(required)</span>
			</div>
 
			<div class="row">
			  <span class="submit_span">
			  <input type="image" id="submit" value="submit" name="submit" src="submit.gif" alt="Submit" /></span>
			</div>
		</div>
 
		<div class="spacer" id="spacer">
		&nbsp;
		</div>
 
	</div>
 
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
 
<?php
}
 
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
	//$formValues = $_POST;
 
	include ('process.php');
 
	if (count($return_arr)>0){
 
		$formErrors = $return_arr;
 
		if(isset($formErrors['process_check'])){//error occurred processing data
			displaySubmit("Sorry an error occurred, please try again later.");
			exit;
		}
 
		DisplayForm($_POST, $formErrors);
 
	}else{
		//success! no validation or processing errors
		displaySubmit("Thank you for submitting your data.");
	}
 
}else{
	DisplayForm(null, null); //form not submitted - typically when page is loaded 1st time
}
 
?>

Next the php script the handles validation and processing of data:

<?php
//requires php 5.2 or greater
//sleep(2);  // use to mimic delayed response from server
 
if (empty($_POST)){exit;}
 
$return_arr = array();
 
if (isset($_POST['email']) && !isEmail(trim($_POST['email']))){ //validate value posted from email input box
	$return_arr["email_check"] = 'invalid';
}
 
if (isset($_POST['name']) && !isName(trim($_POST['name']))){
	$return_arr["name_check"] = 'invalid';
}
 
if (isset($_POST['phone']) && !isPhone(trim($_POST['phone']))){
	$return_arr["phone_check"] = 'invalid';
}
 
if (count($return_arr) == 0 && !isset($_POST['single_field'])){	//if no validation errors try to process the data and not single field flag set
 
	$process_errors = processData($_POST);
 
	if (!$process_errors){ //mail function returns 1
		$return_arr["process_check"] = 'invalid';
	}
}
 
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] == 'XMLHttpRequest')){
		//data posted using jquery framework
		echo json_encode($return_arr);
 
	}else{
		//data posted using traditional form post
		return $return_arr;
}
 
function processData($formValues){
 
  $subject = "Contact Information Submitted";
  $message = 'Name: ' . $formValues['name']."\r\n" ;
  $message .= 'Email: ' . $formValues['email']."\r\n" ;
  $message .= 'Phone: ' . $formValues['phone']."\r\n" ;
 
//ini_set("SMTP","smtp.example.com"); //if you are using an smtp server add it here
//return mail("me@example.com", "Subject: $subject", $message, "From: contact-form@example.com");
//return 0; //test fail use this if you dont want to actually send an email while testing
return 1; //test success
}
 
 
//validation functions
function isEmail($email){
	return(preg_match("/^[-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$/i"
			,$email));
}
 
function isPhone($phone){
	return(preg_match( "/(\d)?(\s|-)?(\()?(\d){3}(\))?(\s|-|\.)?(\d){3}(\s|-|\.)?(\d){4}$/"
			,$phone));
}
 
function isName($name){
	return strlen($name) > 2;
}
 
function displaySubmit($message){
 
$data_posted = <<<EOT
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Progressive Enhancement</title>
<meta content="" name="description"/>
<meta content="" name="keywords"/>
<link media="screen" type="text/css" href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
</link>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contact_form">
<form id="contact">
<div id="top_message" class="top_message error"> </div>
<div class="container">
<div id="spacer" class="spacer">$message</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
EOT;
echo $data_posted;
 
}
 
?>

The jQuery file to process ajax requests:

 
$(document).ready(function(){
 
var bSubmitted = false;
 
	$("#name").focus(); //set focus to first input box
 
 
 
	$("#contact").submit(function(){  //form submitted
		//disable submit button and display loading gif to prevent multiple posts
		$('input[id=submit]', this).attr('disabled', 'disabled');
		$("#submit").attr("src", "loading-ani.gif");
 
		$.post("process.php", $("#contact").serialize(),
		function(data){
			var valid ='true';	//function level variable to track if all inputs on the form passed validation
 
			if (data.phone_check == 'invalid'){
				valid = 'false'; 
				$("#phone").addClass('missing'); 
				$("#phone_error").removeClass('required_hide');
				$("#phone_error").addClass('required_show');
				$("#phone").focus(); 
			} else {
				$("#phone_error").removeClass('required_show');
				$("#phone_error").addClass('required_hide');
				$("#phone").removeClass('missing'); 
			}
 
			if (data.email_check == 'invalid'){
				valid = 'false'; 
				$("#email_error").removeClass('required_hide');
				$("#email_error").addClass('required_show');
				$("#email").addClass('missing'); 
				$("#email").focus();
			} else {
				$("#email_error").removeClass('required_show');
				$("#email_error").addClass('required_hide');
				$("#email").removeClass('missing'); 
			}
 
			if (data.name_check == 'invalid'){
				valid = 'false'; 
				$("#name_error").removeClass('required_hide');
				$("#name_error").addClass('required_show');
				$("#name").addClass('missing'); 
				$("#name").focus(); 
			} else {
				$("#name_error").removeClass('required_show');
				$("#name_error").addClass('required_hide');
				$("#name").removeClass('missing'); 
			}
 
			//re-enable submit button
			$("#submit").removeAttr("disabled");
			$("#submit").attr("src", "submit.gif");
 
			if (valid == 'false'){ 	//if the form contains invalid data notify user else display thank you message	
				$("#top_message").html('Please enter required information');
				$("#top_message").addClass('error'); 
			} else  {  //all form data is valid and has been processed
				$("#form").hide();
				$("#top_message").html('&nbsp;');
					if (data.process_check == 'invalid'){  //processing error
						$("#spacer").html('Sorry an error occurred, please try again later.');
					}else{
						$("#spacer").html('Thank you for submitting your data.');
					}
			}
 
		}, "json");
		//prevent default post behavior
		bSubmitted = true;
		return false; 
 
		});
 
	//single field validation functions - fired on key up event
	$("#name").keyup(function(){
		if (bSubmitted == true){ //only validate after the form has been submitted
			val  =  $(this).val();
		//	val  = $("input#name").val();
			what = 'name';
			SingleValidate(val, what);
			}
		});
 
	$("#email").keyup(function(){
		if (bSubmitted == true){ //only validate after the form has been submitted
			val  = $(this).val();
			what = 'email';
			SingleValidate(val, what);
			}
		});
 
	$("#phone").keyup(function(){
		if (bSubmitted == true){ //only validate after the form has been submitted
			val  = $(this).val();
			what = 'phone';
			SingleValidate(val, what);
			}
		});
 
 
});
 
 
function SingleValidate(val, what) {
 
var dataString = what + '=' + val + '&single_field=yes';//single field = tell process script to only validate data
var error = what + "_check";
 
	$.post("process.php", dataString, function(data){
			if (data[error] == 'invalid'){
				$('#' + [what] + '_error').removeClass('required_hide');
				$('#' + [what] + '_error').addClass('required_show');
				$('#' + what).addClass('missing'); 
			}else{
				$('#' + [what] + '_error').removeClass('required_show');
				$('#' + [what] + '_error').addClass('required_hide');
				$('#' + what).removeClass('missing');
			}
		}, "json");
}

Finally, a style sheet to help with the presentation

input.missing {
 /*background-color: #FFFF77;*/
 border: 2px solid #ff0000;
}
 
div.row {
 clear: both;
 padding-top: 5px;
}
 
div.row span.label {
 float: left;
 width: 100px;
 text-align: right;
  }
 
div.row span.input_span {
 width: 235px;
 text-align: left;
 padding-right: 0px;
 padding-left: 45px;
 
  } 
 
div.row span.submit_span {
 padding-right: 0px;
 padding-left: 145px;
 
  } 
 
div.spacer {
 clear: both;
 }
 
.container{
 width: 425px; 
 background-color: #ccc;
 border: 1px dotted #333;
 padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; 
 margin: 0px auto;
 }
 
.top_message{ 
 width: 360px; 
 margin: 10px auto;
}
 
.error{
 color: #ff0000;
  }
 
.required_hide{
 color: #ff0000;
 display:none;
} 
 
.required_show{
 color: #ff0000;
 }

See the form in action here.
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Blank html template – Transitional dtd

Posted: December 13th, 2009 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: web, wordpress | Tags: blank, dtd, html, html template, template, transitional | 1 Comment »

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
 
<title>HTML Template</title>
 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<!--link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"-->
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
</body>
</html>

Download zipped html file

DNS Server Look up on Windows XP/Vista/2003

Posted: December 5th, 2009 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: Vista, XP | Tags: dns, ip address, server | No Comments »

To look up your DNS ip address open the command console (Start->Run->type ‘cmd’). In the console type or paste ‘ipconfig /all’.

ipconfig

In this case I’m using Google’s DNS servers located at ip address ’8.8.8.8′.

Firefox: Create a Bookmark that Validates html

Posted: December 2nd, 2009 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: firefox | Tags: bookmark, firefox, html, validate, w3c | No Comments »

An important part of writing html is making sure that what you’ve written is valid code. W3C provides an excellent resource for validating. I will show you how to utilize this service to validate any page directly from a Firefox bookmark.

First, click on the ‘Bookmarks’ menu, and then right-click on ‘New Bookmark…’

validate bookmark

Add text for the name that will be easy for you to remember. In the location text box paste the following javascript snippet:

javascript:void
(document.location='http://validator.w3.org/check?uri='+document.location+';verbose=1;ss=1')

Click the ‘Add’ button and test it out!

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