php and html email forms - php

Question

I am creating a website for my church choir in HTML. I have a "contact us" page written in HTML. It has a form for the user to send the choir director an email from the website. I am aware that I have to write the email in php in order for the email to send. Do I need to duplicate the html file and rewrite it in PHP?
<form name="Send-mail" action="mailto:email#email.com" method="post">
<label>Name:</label>
<input class="nice" name="name" type="text"/>
<label>Email:</label>
<input class="nice" name="email" type="text"/>
<label>Subject:</label>
<input class="nice" name="subject" type="text"/>`enter code here`
<label>Message:</label>
<text-area type="text" name="message"></text-area>
<input class="centered" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send email"/>
</form>
I need the server to send the email from the website to the email of our choir director.

Answer 1

You would need to create the PHP file where there is an email sending logic,eg: sendEmail.php. The form tag would change to:
<form name="Send-mail" action="sendEmail.php" method="post">

Answer 2

Below is how you can send the mail in php from form inputs.
<form action="mail.php" method="post">
<label>Name:</label>
<input class="nice" name="name" type="text"/>
<label>Email:</label>
<input class="nice" name="email" type="text"/>
<label>Subject:</label>
<input class="nice" name="subject" type="text"/>`enter code here`
<label>Message:</label>
<text-area type="text" name="message"></text-area>
<input class="centered" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send email"/>
</form>
You will have to name your php file mail.php like in case below
mail.php
<?php
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$sender = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$message .= "<h1>This is Message from $sender.</h1>";
$header = "From:senderemail#somedomain.com \r\n";
$header .= "Cc:senderemail#somedomain.com \r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$retval = mail ($to,$subject,$message,$header);
if( $retval == true ) {
echo "Message sent successfully...";
}else {
echo "Message could not be sent...";
}
?>
You will need to ensure that email for this line of code is correctly set.
$header = "From:senderemail#somedomain.com \r\n";
$header .= "Cc:senderemail#somedomain.com \r\n";
In otherword, if your site email is support#hey.com
Try Replacing it snderemail#somedomain and it will work. You can also try the replacement with some other emails like good working gmail and let me know what happen. Thanks