[QUESTION] How to do form processing?

[mithat]

What's the recommended way to handle form processing (e.g. a contact form) in Phile? I've tried a few approaches but none have succeeded--though I'm not ruling out my own stupidity or the limitations of PHP's development server.

[Schlaefer]

It should be straight forward:

• write the contact form HTML on a page (remember: you can use raw HTML in markdown documents; or use a dedicated template)
• in a plugin check for the form fields in $_POST
• send email

Every ordinary "contact form in PHP" tutorial on the net should get you going.

[mithat]

It looks like I was falling victim to the behavior of PHP's built-in development server. I have the PHP form processing script in the root directory. When I try a submission with PHP's built-in server, I get 404. I just tested in an Apache-based environment, and it works as expected.

I suspect PHP's server assumes everything is routed through index.php, even requests that end in .php.

[Schlaefer]

Ok. So I guess we can close this.