Send Email with PHP

Simple how to send a plain text email with PHP. Covers the contact form, the email processor, and the thank-you page.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• PHP
• HTML
• Email
• Contact Form

[drummerjacob]

i dont understand why the header and footer.php files are referenced @ :10. i dont have any files by that name and theres no coding of those in this video.....anyone?

[waltdesignanddevelop]

@drummerjacob Those are if you were displaying a web page, you can put the top part of the page in 'header.php' and the bottom part of the page in 'footer.php'.

They are not required to make the script run.

[AustinMutschler]

Hello, is there a code where I can make them set who they want to send the message to?

[waltdesignanddevelop]

@AustinMutschler You can add a form field to collect an email address, and then reference that in the mail command. A simple version would look like:

mail ($_POST['toEmail'], '[[Subject]]', '[[body]]'); // replace subject and body with your actual text.

[drmcgog]

Great tutorial for someone who knows nothing about how to set this up.

Its a good practice to differentiate between when you are using curly brackets and round brackets because its impossible to see in a video.

Again, thanks for this video especially setting up the if statements.

[waltdesignanddevelop]

@drmcgog Good point about mentions which type of characters are being typed for when someone isn't viewing full screen. I'll work on that for future tutorials.

[Nyutoraru]

@waltdesignanddevelop You can seperate HTML and PHP, instead of making 1 big mess. Search up templatepower if you haven't already.

[drummerjacob]

@waltdesignanddevelop ok thanks

[shindedeepakm]

thanks very USEFUL ... code