PHP - Complete Noob Here :p

Gday,
I'm trying to add a contact form on my site using a PHP script I downloaded from the web. I have tweaked the script, but I have never used PHP before and haven't got the time to learn it yet. Could someone please help me to get this working, I have added a subject drop down field that I would like to add validation to force the user to choose one, and I'd like the subject they choose to appear in the subject field of the resulting email. Once the PHP script has run and the email has been sent I'd like the text at the bottom to appear on the original page. At the moment when i click submit it just goes to the php page and shows three lines of the error message text.
Here is the relevant code:

This form is placed within a static html page:

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<form name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php" style="text-align:left;">
          <label for="first_name">First name <span class="red">*</span></label>
          <input name="first_name" type="text" value="please enter your first name" size="30" maxlength="75" onclick="document.contactform.first_name.value='';" />
          <br/>
          <label for="last_name">Last name <span class="red">*</span></label>
          <input name="last_name" type="text" value="please enter your last name" size="30" maxlength="75" onclick="document.contactform.last_name.value='';" />
          <br/>
          <label for="email" style="margin-right:32px;">Email <span class="red">*</span></label>
          <input name="email" type="text" value="please enter your email address" size="30" maxlength="75" onclick="document.contactform.email.value='';" />
          <br/>
          <label for="phone_number" style="margin-right:34px;">Phone</label>
          <input name="phone_number" type="text" value="please enter your phone number" size="30" maxlength="75" onclick="document.contactform.phone_number.value='';" />
          <br/>
          <label for="email_subject" style="margin-right:19px;">Subject <span class="red">*</span></label>
          <select name="email_subject" style="margin-bottom:10px;">
          <option value="Choose one">Choose one</option>
            <option value="Lost my password">Lost my password</option>
            <option value="Gardening advice">Gardening advice</option>
            <option value="Order status">Order status</option>
            <option value="Web feedback">Web feedback</option>
            <option value="Customer Service">Customer Service</option>
            <option value="Product feedback">Product feedback</option>
            <option value="Other">Other</option>
          </select>
          <br/>
          <label for="comments">Queries/Comments <span class="red">*</span></label>
          <textarea rows="10" cols="50" wrap="virtual" name="comments"
          onclick="document.contactform.comments.value='';" style="margin-bottom:5px;">Please type your query or comments here</textarea>
          <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
      </form>


and here is the seperate php script that is used:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "johnc@diggers.com.au";
$email_subject =  $_REQUEST['email_subject'];


 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($_POST['email_subject']) ||
!isset($_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
$telephone = $_POST['email_subject']; // required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required

$error_message = "";
$email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
   $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
$string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) {
   $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!eregi($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 />';
  }
  $string_exp = "^[0-9 .-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$telephone)) {
   $error_message .= 'The Telephone Number you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($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
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>

<!-- include your own success html here -->

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch within 72 hours of the next working day.

<?
}
?>


Any help on how to get this going would be greatly appreciated, thanks

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- Step 1: Insert row into database
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If the user closes the browser soon after Step 1 has complete Step 2 and 3 will not run.

I would prefer if all 3 steps were complete or none at all. What can I do?

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    public function executeSpecificRequestCommand(array $data):bool {
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All is good until doSomething()  takes a lot of time and results in a cURL error between the HTTP web server and HTTP REST API.  For this particular case, the task isn't meant to provide immediate feedback to the user, but to do some work and update the database, and as such, my desire is to return true status and then perform the work instead of extending the cURL timeout.

One option is to ran some process in the background and return status, but I don't think doing so is really right.  Using a queue seems excessive as I am already decoupled via the socket.  As such, I will probably just add some logic between the initial $string->on('data') and this executeSpecificRequestCommand() method to determine whether the success message should be returned before or after the method is complete.

Before doing so, however, I would like to know if there is a more appropriate approach to this scenario.  It appears that maybe a child process or a deferred might be appropriate, but am not sure whether I am going down the wrong path.

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// $page = html source file

define("LIST_OF_SCHOOLS", "Piarsaigh,Phiarsaigh,Vincents");

$schoolList = explode(',', LIST_OF_SCHOOLS);

function checkForSchool($page, $schoolList) {
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}