Hello October Community! I'm currently partaking in the lovely job of transferring a straight file based PHP site, with no CMS, to October. I've gotten just about everything from styles to Javascript setup, but I'm having one main problem.

I can't seem to get those PHP forms to work. Below is a sample of the original form

<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="info-message">
    <p>Into paragraph</p>
</div>
<div class="evaluation-form">
    <?php if (isset($_REQUEST['mess'])) { ?>
        <p class="info">Thank you for your enquiry, a representative from Someone <strong>Somewhere</strong> will get back to you within 24 hours</p>
    <?php } ?>      
    <form class="validate" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>?mess=true">
        <strong class="ttl">Your Details</strong>
        <div class="row">
            <input name="sidebar_form" value="true" type="hidden" value="">
            <input id="name" name="name" class="required <?php if(!isset($_POST['name'])){ echo 'defaultInvalid'; } ?>" type="text" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['name']))){ echo $_POST['name']; } else{ echo 'Name'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <input id="email" class="email" type="text" name="email" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['email']))){ echo $_POST['email']; } else{ echo 'Email'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <input id="phone" name="phone" class="required <?php if(!isset($_POST['phone'])){ echo 'defaultInvalid'; } ?>" type="text" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['phone']))){ echo $_POST['phone']; } else{ echo 'Phone'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <strong class="ttl">SomeDetails</strong>
        <div class="row">
            <select class="required" name="model">
                <option></option>
                        <option>Option1</option>
                <option>Option2</option>
                <option>Option3</option>
                <option>Option4</option>
                <option>Option5</option>
                <option>Option6</option>
            </select>
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <input type="text" name="modelno" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['modelno']))){ echo $_POST['modelno']; } else{ echo 'Model no'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <ul class="check-list">
            <li>
                <label for="o_box">Original box:</label>
                <input id="o_box" type="checkbox" name="orig-box" value="1">
            </li>
            <li>
                <label for="o_papers">Original papers:</label>
                <input id="o_papers" type="checkbox" name="orig-pap" value="1">
            </li>
        </ul>
        <div class="row">
            <label>Upload picture:</label>
            <div class="container">
                <input type="file" name="uploaded_file" >
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <input type="text" name="old" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['old']))){ echo $_POST['old']; } else{ echo 'How old is your watch?'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <input type="text" name="price" value="<?php if((isset($_POST['price']))){ echo $_POST['price']; } else{ echo 'Asking price'; } ?>">
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <textarea name="add_info" name="info" cols="30" rows="10"><?php if((isset($_POST['add_info']))){ echo $_POST['add_info']; } else{ echo 'Additional info'; } ?></textarea>
        </div>
        <div class="row">
            <button class="btn-request">Request Your FREE Evaluation</button>
        </div>
    </form>
</div>
</aside>

Besides pointing out I really need to learn PHP (and if this is just a case of un-education, let me know so I can study up), I'd appreciate any advice on how to get this form to start working on my OctoberCMS site!

Really, any and all help is appreciated.

-Harry

For anyone else wondering how to do this, I am experimenting with using a PHP script outside of the OctoberCMS shell that will execute the form intake and email the submissions. I have success in getting it to write to a txt file. Feel free to reply if you want some code snippets.

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