How Do I Create a Fill-in Email Form?

Receive email from your website with a form.

One of the most common ways to receive feedback from your website visitors is to provide an email form. It can provide a means of receiving suggestions, questions or comments. Knowing that they can get in touch with you can also increase your users' confidence in your website. Create a contact or email form for your users to fill in using HTML and PHP.

Things You'll Need

• HTML or text editor
• Web server that supports PHP

Instructions

1. Open the file to which you will add the email form and insert the following:

   <form action="contact.php" method="post" name="contact" ><table>

   <tr>

   <td valign="top">Email:</td>

   <td><input name="email" type="text" /></td></tr>

   <tr>

   <td valign="top">Name:</td>

   <td><input name="name" type="text" /></td></tr>

   <tr><td valign="top">Subject:</td><td><input name="subject" type="text" /></td></tr>

   <tr>

   <td valign="top">Message:</td>

   <td><textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10">

2. Open a new file. Save it as "contact.php" and insert the following:

   <?php

   // The data to submit

   $name = $_POST['name'];

   $email = $_POST['email'];

   $subject = $_POST['subject'];

   $message = $_POST['message'];

   $to = [e-mail]' . "\r\n";

   $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

   $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

   $headers .= 'From: '.$email.. "\r\n";

   $body = "Name: ".$name. "<br/>";

   $body .= "Email: ".$email. "<br/>";

   $body .= "Subject: ".$subject. "<br/>";

   $body .= "Message: ".$message. "<br/>";

   // Send

   mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

   header( 'Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

   ?>

   Replace "[e-mail]" with your email address. The message entered on your form is emailed to you. Users are returned to the page they were on by the "$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']" value.

3. Save the file. Upload all files and test the form by entering the page in your Web browser.

References

• PHP.net: mail