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- Sending Mail to specific email becomes a global issue for website development. Online communication for any organisation with customers or users is done either by emailing them or through comments. These organisations or companies uses feedback or contact form to communicate with users.
- Through these forms user is able to send his/her suggestion or feedback via email to respective organisation.
- Here, In this blog we will show you, how to use mail() function of PHP to send informations like, suggestions/messages to specific email address on form submission.
we used following PHP mail() function with four parameters to send email as follows:
mail("$to", $subject, $message, $headers);click below button to copy the code. php tutorial - team
- Here, $to variable is to store reciever’s email id.
- $subject is a variable to store mail subject.
- $message is a variable to store user’s message.
- $headers contains other email parameters like BCc, Cc etc.
You can download our zip file or simply follow our code and edit it to use.
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Most of the new host company has stopped PHP (mail) functioning, because using this spammer can send a thousand of emails. If your host not enabled with PHP mail function you can send using PHP Mailer Class.
HTML file: secure_email_form.php
Here, we have created a simple html Feedback Form as shown below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>FeedBack Form With Email Functionality</title>
<link href="css/elements.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<!-- Body Starts Here -->
<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Feedback Form Starts Here -->
<div id="feedback">
<!-- Heading Of The Form -->
<div class="head">
<h3>FeedBack Form</h3>
<p>This is feedback form. Send us your feedback !</p>
</div>
<!-- Feedback Form -->
<form action="#" id="form" method="post" name="form">
<input name="vname" placeholder="Your Name" type="text" value="">
<input name="vemail" placeholder="Your Email" type="text" value="">
<input name="sub" placeholder="Subject" type="text" value="">
<label>Your Suggestion/Feedback</label>
<textarea name="msg" placeholder="Type your text here..."></textarea>
<input id="send" name="submit" type="submit" value="Send Feedback">
</form>
<h3><?php include "secure_email_code.php"?></h3>
</div>
<!-- Feedback Form Ends Here -->
</div>
</body>
<!-- Body Ends Here -->
</html>click below button to copy the code. php tutorial - team
PHP File: secure_email_code.php
As User fills the above Html form and clicks on send button, following php code will executes.
<?php
if(isset($_POST["submit"])){
// Checking For Blank Fields..
if($_POST["vname"]==""||$_POST["vemail"]==""||$_POST["sub"]==""||$_POST["msg"]==""){
echo "Fill All Fields..";
}else{
// Check if the "Senders Email" input field is filled out
$email=$_POST['vemail'];
// Sanitize E-mail Address
$email =filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
// Validate E-mail Address
$email= filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
if (!$email){
echo "Invalid Sender's Email";
}
else{
$subject = $_POST['sub'];
$message = $_POST['msg'];
$headers = 'From:'. $email2 . "\r\n"; // Senders Email
$headers .= 'Cc:'. $email2 . "\r\n"; // Carbon copy to Sender
// Message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
// Send Mail By PHP Mail Function
mail("recievers_mail_id@xyz.com", $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Your mail has been sent successfuly ! Thank you for your feedback";
}
}
}
?>click below button to copy the code. php tutorial - team
CSS File: elements.css
Styling HTML form is done here.
@import "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway";
/*----------------------------------------------
CSS Settings For HTML Div ExactCenter
------------------------------------------------*/
h3,p,label {
text-align:center;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
color:#006400
}
h2 {
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif
}
input {
width:100%;
margin-bottom:20px;
padding:5px;
height:30px;
box-shadow:1px 1px 12px gray;
border-radius:3px;
border:none
}
textarea {
width:100%;
height:80px;
margin-top:10px;
padding:5px;
box-shadow:1px 1px 12px gray;
border-radius:3px
}
#send {
width:103%;
height:45px;
margin-top:40px;
border-radius:3px;
background-color:#cd853f;
border:1px solid #fff;
color:#fff;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
font-size:18px
}
div#feedback {
text-align:center;
height:520px;
width:330px;
padding:20px 25px 20px 15px;
background-color:#f3f3f3;
border-radius:3px;
border:1px solid #cd853f;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
float:left
}
.container {
width:960px;
margin:40px auto
}