PHP Mail Form Tutorial

This script is widely used by many sites on the net. PHP provides an easy way to send mail via the function mail().

First of all, we ought to prepare the adequate fields to be filled by the user.

Ex: Name, E-Mail, Subject, Body

Now we start coding :

Now we're going to work inside PHP braces ( <? ?>)

It's quite easy to write HTML code for a form. Just copy this:

Since PHP is case sensitive, beware when writing field names (write low-case names).

Now, we've got to remember that our page is composed of "two pages": the first one contains the form and the second one sends the mail and displays "Thank You For using our mail form"

So, we use a condition :

if ($submit) ( as we named our button submit)

This HTML code should only appear when the user is not submitting his message. So, the code becomes:

Now we have to add the script to send the mail.

Here it is:

So the final thorough script becomes :

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