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Send Email
1) HTML Form with Inputs
<form action="" method="post">
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<label for="Email">Email:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
<label for="Message">Message:</label><br />
<textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>2) Process with PHP
This could be in a seperate file (e.g. sendemail.php) in which you’d set the action URL of the form to go there. Or, have the form submit to itself (leave action URL blank) and test for one of the values of the form being POSTed and process there.
<?php
// from the form
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['message']);
// set here
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
$to = 'your@email.com';
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
// redirect afterwords, if needed
header('Location: thanks.html');
?>3) Test it
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thanks this was real helpful !
as I’m quite new to PHP.
Hiya – great stuff as always – but for some reason, I can’t get this to work! It redirects to me thanks page, but the email doesn’t come through. Is there something special that has to be configured in php? I’m running php4 (but I don’t really get too involved in php stuff!!)
Lovin your work on twitter by the way!
great! – but for some reason, It redirects to me thanks page, but the email comes blank no data in there. any help would be appreciated. I am getting in to php.
I’m getting the same problem it’s like is not reading the inputs
got the problem solved the form method must be POST (i’m dumber in my way :)) )
Thanks Chris again and again and yeah AGAIN THANKS !!
Thanks Chris, it is really helpfull
still can’t get this to work. using wordpress.
I get this error: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home2/yourmedp/public_html/wp-content/themes/obvious/inc/contact-form.php:3) in /home2/yourmedp/public_html/wp-content/themes/obvious/inc/contact-form.php on line 24
Can U Tell Me Solution For Bulk Mail ??
Replace the following in the php bit:
$body = <<<HTML$message
HTML;
with:
$body = $message;And it should work.
Hi, thanks for this code, i was pulling my hair out trying to get my form to work! i did have some problems though, you need to change the code as mentioned above^^^^^ and also I was not receiving the persons name in the email so i substituted “Contact form submitted!” for “$name” and now their name comes through in the header :-)
Thanks again, Liam
It work for after some tweak:
put the input form and textarea names and ids lowercase.
But i can not use it like this.
I’m not sure how to link the PHP with the HTML. Could someone email me?
Just getting warmed up on the development level of web education.. need this like last year.
Very useful, thank you.
I got issues testing from a local server. How can I make it work please?.
I understand I could download a mail server. Any ideas?
It only works if you write exactly the same in the variable name ($Name) as the in the input tag in your html document. I made it work by the copy-paste method so I was sure that the variables had the same name..
In the code example the name is written with capitalize and in the php code the variable name is written with lowercase, and that courses the problem.
Hope it helped..
Ah yes! That’s definitely a problem. This is now fixed in the above code.
Hey Chris,
Thanks for this form. Though for some reason when I put in an email address the form doesn’t get submitted properly. But, if I leave the email blank or leave out the @ it works fine. Do you have any suggestions?
Cheers!