Make contact form for iOS app with Swift and PHP - php

Question

I want to create a contact form where the user can leave me a message (and name and phone number…) and send it to me.
But I don't know how to do this because I never dealt with thinks like this before.
My own suggestion is to $_POST the content from TextField and TextView to a PHP script on my server. This will handle the content. (Either send an email to me with mail() or store it in a file on the server. The PHP script is no problem for me.)
Is that way reasonable? What is the common way to do that, to leave a feedback or something like this to the developer?
P.S. I know there's a way that the user sends me an email from inside the app. But I don't like this way.

Answer 1

That seems reasonable to me. You could just write a function in swift to send to send get or post parameters like so:
func postParamRequest(resourceURL: String, postData: String, completionHandler: ((NSURLResponse?, NSData?, NSError?) -> Void)) {
let request : NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest()
request.URL = NSURL(string: resourceURL)
request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
request.setValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
request.HTTPBody = postData.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue(), completionHandler:{ (response:NSURLResponse?, data: NSData?, error: NSError?) in
completionHandler(response, data, error)
})
}
You can then just call that function and get the callback of the response, data, and any errors too (the postData should be [key: value]) for the POST parameters. Like so:
postParamRequest("theUrlToYourScript", postData: "key1=value&key2=value&key3=value") { (response, data, error) in
print(data)
}
In your PHP script you could then retrieve the data with something like this: $_POST["paramName"].