Unintentionally Blank

This week I produced a relatively simple bit of code for someone to use on a few websites. All I wanted to do was take a contact form that I had already written, simplify it, comment it and send it on. Sounds easy, why wasn’t it then?

I learnt the PHP for creating a contact form last summer. It is one of the obvious things to do first as a contact form is a standard occurrence on any site. After gathering the information from the HTML form all that is really left to do is create the following line:

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Having completed this, I uploaded a test and tried it out, visited my email account to see the test email arrive and… nothing! I checked and re-checked the code. I eventually found that I had a typo in one variable name, but that wouldn’t have stopped the message being sent, just not deliver any message. Minutes and hours of tinkering and looking on in disbelief with the occasional test passed. Eventually I received an email!

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The irresistable urge to take part in competitions run by other bloggers has overcome me twice this week. Firstly, I submitted my how to, for the ProBlogger group writing project (look out for another one soon), now I’ve had a go at Veerle’s Photo Imaging Contest. The idea was simple, Veerle supplied four different pictures of herself and all you had to do was manipulate (at least) one of them in a creative or witty way. There are prizes on offer, but it is a bit of fun too.

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You have created a site, hand-coded it to perfection in your eyes, but you are missing something. Something that every other web designer in the world has done before*. You have forgotten to alienate a subsection of Internet surfers by including some of the tricks below.

* may only apply to me

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