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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 ??