Comments on: AJAX Contact Form with PHP Fallback

By: ming

ming — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:06:28 +0000

Hi all. My sincere apologies for not replying sooner. I wasn’t receiving notices about comments for some reason.

@ fotinorod, I’m glad I was able to help out.

@ Ian, yes, this is a new version of the other code I wrote. The original code was a PHP form that did javascript validation prior to posting and php form validation after posting. This code above has that, plus, if the user has javascript, it has a separate form that allows them to submit the form via AJAX rather than submitting it via PHP and having to reload the page. Now, that’s a bit of a misnomer as I’m using PHP with the AJAX form for submission, but the user only sees the AJAX portion of it.

@ Tim, yes, you can use noscript tags, BUT, if you put noscript tags in your header, your code won’t validate. I actually looked at doing it with noscript, but it just wouldn’t work for what I needed it to do and still validate.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:39:40 +0000

Sorry, it filtered out the NOSCRIPT tag I had in there. Browsers process code within any tags they do not know the meaning of. I believe javascript-enabled browsers know to completely ignore the NOSCRIPT tag. It’s the same reason why some people put javascript code within comment tags in HTML–otherwise, non-js enabled browsers would just output your raw js code.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:30:33 +0000

“Unfortunately, there’s no good way to test if people have javascript enabled.”

Would work for this purpose?

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:00:40 +0000

I’ve just noticed that this post is very similar to your previous post: “PHP Contact Form with Javascript and PHP Form Validation”. Is this a later version of the same form?

By: fotinorod

fotinorod — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:41:09 +0000

I am Lucy, I have found your website while searching for some info at Google. Your site has helped me in a big way.

G’night