Php Simple Email Script

**FireNova** · #1 06-25-2005, 11:10 AM

Hey guys yes thats rite i learnt more php lol :P. today were learning the basic way to send emails from a form that can be place on sites. All of this is in one file.

First open a new document in any program notepad is easiest

and name the file 'emailform.php' without the quotes.

Enter in this code

Code:

<?Php
if( isset($_POST['submit']) )
{
	mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");
	echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';
}

else
{
echo '
	<form method="post" action="emailform.php">
	Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" size="15"><br />
	Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="15"><br />
	Message: <br /><textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea><br />
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Email">
	</form>';

}?>

now lets break it down

Code:

if( isset($_POST['submit']) )
{
	mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");
	echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';
}

This says that if submit is clicked do whats in the { } brackets in this case this:

Code:

mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");
	echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';

now lets break it down even further

Code:

mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");

This says when submit is clicked mail the info to 'email@url.com'.

It also says that the info sent is the varibles subject, email and message.

Code:

echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';

this says after the info is sent echo the info in the speechmarks in this case it tells it to produce text like this

subject: blah
email: blah
message: blah

Go Back

after the subject, email and message the varibles can be seen in the coding. This basically means that it will echo what you just sent. So if you wrote this in the name part "My name is Tom" then it will do this

subject: My name is Tom

Code:

else
{
echo '
	<form method="post" action="emailform.php">
	Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" size="15"><br />
	Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="15"><br />
	Message: <br /><textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea><br />
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Email">
	</form>';

The 'else' tells the php that if the submit is not clicked then go to this. As like before the echo can be seen. This says if else is use then echo this form onto the page.
The form is easy and if you have basic knowledge of html then you know what this is.

An example of this can be seen at

http://p3rc3pt10n.net/site/tuts/php/emailform.php

if you need help feel free to ask

all comments are appreciated :P

<span style='color:red'>
*Note: To all those expert programmers if i have anything wrong please tell me as im not experience in php and correcting it will help get me and other members better.</span>

**Insaze** · #2 06-25-2005, 11:47 AM

haha that script is nasty
i remember the times when i did nasty, and i really mean nasty things with it ^^

oh yeah btw good tut..

**ownsyou** · #3 06-25-2005, 01:44 PM

Code:

if($submit)
{
mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");
echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';
}

It would only work if "register_globals" are ON in php.ini, if it is ON, there is a security risk, change it to:

Code:

if( isset($_POST['submit']) )
{
mail("email@url.com", "$subject" , "$email" , "$message");
echo '<b>Subject:</b> '.$subject.' <br /> <b>Email:</b> '.$email.' <br /> <b>Message:</b> <br /> '.$message.' <br /> <br /> <a href="emailform.php">Go Back</a>';
}

Hope it helps!

**FireNova** · #4 06-25-2005, 01:46 PM

thanks for this James

**xplicit** · #5 07-01-2005, 07:56 PM

Only If i knew how to do php, looks like a headache waiting to happen. T_T

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