[dgamma3]

hi, I have just finshed making a contact form. in the form the action sends it to a page called send.php. This is my problem:

if(!preg_match('/^[\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*@(?:[\w-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/', $to)) {
echo 'bad email' ;
}

when a user enters an incorrect email, it will display the bad email error on the send.php page. This is not want i want it to do.

i want it do display and error above the contact form on the contact page. Like this: HERE. Try enter an incorrect email, it will display a message above the contact form. How do i do this.

[Techmonkeys]

You would set a variable for the bad email so instead of

echo 'bad email' ;

you would have

$bademail = 1;

Then you would have the code at the top of your page something like:

if ($bademail = 1) {
echo '<font color="#FF0000">Invalid Email Address</font>';
}

So when you click the Submiyt button and it reloads the page then the $bademail is set to one it will display the message at the top of the page

[dgamma3]

ok. how would insert this message:
if ($bademail = 1) {
echo '<font color="#FF0000">Invalid Email Address</font>';
}

in a specific cell.