Title: Loading the current theme for a php form handler
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Loading the current theme for a php form handler

 *  [droidzone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droidzone/)
 * (@droidzone)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-the-current-theme-for-a-php-form-handler/)
 * I have created a WordPress page and added html form fields, to send data via 
   POST to a simple php script, which would then mail me the feedback left by visitors
   on the form. For now, the script and form work.
 * However I would like to have the current wordpress theme loaded for the php file
   which parses user data and informs the visitor that form has been submitted correctly.
 * The code of the php parser form is:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
   
           // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
           $email_to = "myemail@domain.tld";
           $email_subject = "Someone has submitted feedback on your website";
   
           function died($error) {
               // your error code can go here
               echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
               echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
               echo $error."<br /><br />";
               echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
               die();
           }
   
           // validation expected data exists
           if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
               !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
               !isset($_POST['email']) ||
               !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
               !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
               died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
           }
   
           $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
           $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
           $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
           $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
           $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
   
           $error_message = "";
           $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
         if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
           $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
         }
           $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
         if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
           $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
         }
         if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
           $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
         }
         if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
           $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
         }
         if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
           died($error_message);
         }
           $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
   
           function clean_string($string) {
             $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
             return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
           }
   
           $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
           $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
           $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
           $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
           $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
   
       // create email headers
   
       $headers = 'From: '.'server@droidzone.in'."\r\n".
       'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
       'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
       @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
       ?>
   
       Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
   
       <?php
   
       }
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 * In other words, I need to convert my simple page shown to visitors, into a page
   with the same theme as that of the whole blog.
 * Could someone point out the way for learning more about how to do this?

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