Submitting forms in Php

[gajer]

Hello, I need to have an online form submitted to my email address, but I do not want to have it use the customers email client. The server side language supported by my host is PHP, but I am clueless in this regard. The page can be viewed at

http://www.harmonic.co.za/request.html.

I need all the fields to be sent to my email address. Can anyone help with php code, and how it should be integrated.

 

[vacunita]

Change the action of your form from mailto:... to a page that will hold your script.

The script can be something as simple as:

$formfields="The Form Contents: Textfield1:" . $_POST['textfield'] . "<br>Textfield2:" . $_POST['textfield2'] . "<br>Textfield3:" . $_POST['textfield3'] . "<br>Textfield4:" . $_POST['textfield4'] . "<br>SeletBox:" . $_POST['select'] . "<br>Textfield5:" . $_POST['textfield5'] . "<br>Textfield6:" . $_POST['textfield6'];


$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = $formfields;
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

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[gajer]

HI, thanks for the reply. It kinda makes sense, seeing as I've not use php before. But to be sure, how would I associate my online form with the code.
I'm a bit lost from the "$headers =" bit.

 

[vacunita]

As I said change the Action of your form. that reads action="mailto:...." to the file that will hold the script such as, myemailscript.php.

Make sure the file myemailscript.php is located in the same folder as the page that contains your form.

As for the headers, that's just your information, Replace webmater@example.com with your email. or the email you wish to appear in the FROM field of the email you receive.



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