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Hi all. I am fairly new to PHP and I'm running into a few problems and I don't really know where to start. I have a form that is trying to submit and send to an email address. I am using jQuery ajax function along with php mail function. I installed a WAMP server on my PC (not sure if that's where I'm running into an issue). I typically get "syntaxerror: json.parse: unexpected character" error message. Also, if this is not the proper forum to post in, I apologize in advance and please point in the right direction. Thanks! Here's the JavaScript and PHP code:

JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function() {
	
	$('form #response').hide();
	
	$('#submit').click(function(e) {
		
		// prevent forms default action until
		// error check has been performed
		e.preventDefault();
				
		// grab form field values
		var valid = '';
		var required = ' is required.';
		var name = $('form #name').val();
		var email = $('form #email').val();
		var message = $('form #message').val();
		var honeypot = $('form #honeypot').val();
		var humancheck = $('form #humancheck').val();
		
			$('form #response').removeClass().addClass('processing').html('Processing...').fadeIn('fast');										
			
			var formData = $(this).serialize();
			submitForm(formData);
					
	});
});

// make our ajax request to the server
function submitForm(formData) {
	$.ajax({	
		type: 'POST',
		url: 'feedback.php',		
		data: formData,
		dataType: 'json',
		cache: false,
		timeout: 7000,
		success: function(data) {

$('form #response').removeClass().addClass((data.error === true) ? 'error' : 'success')
						.html(data.msg).fadeIn('fast');	
						
			if ($('form #response').hasClass('success')) {
				
				setTimeout("$('form #response').fadeOut('fast')", 5000);
			}
		
		},
		error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

$('form #response').removeClass().addClass('error')
						.html('<p>There was an<strong> ' + errorThrown +
							  '</strong> error due to a<strong> ' + textStatus +
							  '</strong> condition.</p>').fadeIn('fast');
		},				
		complete: function(XMLHttpRequest, status) { 			
			
			$('form')[0].reset();
		}
	});
	
};

PHP:

<?php 
sleep(2);
//Sanitize incoming data and store in variable
$name = trim(stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'])));	  		
$email = trim(stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email'])));
$message = trim(stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message'])));	    
$humancheck = $_POST['humancheck'];
$honeypot = $_POST['honeypot'];

if ($honeypot == 'http://' && empty($humancheck)) {	
		
		//Validate data and return success or error message
		$error_message = '';	
		$reg_exp = '/^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,4}$/';
		
		if (!preg_match($reg_exp, $email)) {
				    
					$error_message .= "<p>A valid email address is required.</p>";			   
		}
		if (empty($name)) {	
				   
				    $error_message .= "<p>Please provide your name.</p>";			   
		}			
		if (empty($message)) {
					
					$error_message .= "<p>A message is required.</p>";
		}		
		if (!empty($error_message)) {
					$return['error'] = true;
					$return['msg'] = "<h3>Oops! The request was successful but your form is not filled out correctly.</h3>".$error_message;					
					echo json_encode($return);
					exit();
		} else {

//send to email
			$to = '(MY EMAIL ADDRESS)';
			$from = 'root@localhost.com';
			$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . '\n';
			$headers .= 'From: $from' . '\n';
			$subject = 'Contact Form Submission\n';
			$body = 'Name: ' .$name . '\n';
			$body .= 'Email: ' .$email . '\n';
			$body .= 'Message: ' .$message . '\n';
			
			//send email and return a message to user
			if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, '-f admin@localhost.com')) {
				$return['error'] = false;
				$return['msg'] = "<p>Thanks for your feedback " .$name .".</p>"; 
				echo json_encode($return);	
			} else {
				$return['error'] = true;
				$return['msg'] = "<h3>Oops! There was a problem sending your email. Please try again.</h3>";	
				echo json_encode($return);		
			}
							  
		  }		
} else {
	
	$return['error'] = true;
	$return['msg'] = "<h3>Oops! There was a problem with your submission. Please try again.</h3>";	
	echo json_encode($return);
}
	
?>

Nick Charles

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I suspect that json_encode doesn't like the HTML string contents. Try removing json_encode and just echo the msg. Or remove the HTML tags from the message text.

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Nick Charles wrote:I suspect that json_encode doesn't like the HTML string contents. Try removing json_encode and just echo the msg. Or remove the HTML tags from the message text.

Hm. Neither seems to be working unfortunately.

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If you removed the calls to json_encode you should be getting a different error message. What error are you getting now?

Also, it might help to post the entire error message, or web page with the error message. The full text might provide some insight.

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