I havent used any PHP, and wanted to make a form on my html file send an email without using mailto:
I have looked online for some tutorials on how to do this, and the best I could do myself was this.
<form method="POST" action="contact.php">
<input type="text" name="FirstName" placeholder="First Name" size="24px"/> <input type="text" name="LastName" placeholder="Last Name" size="24px"/><br>
<input type="tel" name="Phone" placeholder="Address" size="53px"/><br>
<input type="text" name="Address" placeholder="Phone Number" size="53px"/><br>
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email Address" size="53px"/><br>
<input type="email" name="confirmemail" placeholder="Confirm Email" size="53px"/><br>
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" />
</form>
and for my PHP file the best I could try to get was this:
<?php
if($_POST["submit"]) {
$recipient="basketgiftsreceiver#gmail.com";
$subject="Form to email message";
$sender=$_POST["Email sender"];
$senderEmail=$_POST["basketgiftssender#gmail.com"];
$message=$_POST["This is my message"];
$mailBody="Name: $sender\nEmail: $senderEmail\n\n$message";
mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody, "From: $sender <$senderEmail>");
$thankYou="<p>Thank you! Your message has been sent.</p>";
}
?>
When I click my submit button, all I get is this:
If any of you guys could help me with this, that help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
By the looks of your issue you are not running a web server on localhost.
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
Php is server side scripting and does not run in the web browser.
Scripts are only executed when you access them through a webserver. You can't use a local file to run a script. Accessing the script using file://path will just display the contents of the script, not run it.
Beyond the fact that you probably not running a web server that supports php,
You are probably missing a smtp server, you need that to send an email in the code.
Google provides Information about their smtp.
server address : smtp.gmail.com
ports :
465 (SSL required) or 587 (TLS required)
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I'm fairly new to php and I'm still learning the basics. I created a simple "contact us" form that should send the data to an email address. However, I'm not receiving the email. The "Thank you" message displays correctly, but the email is never sent.
Unfortunately my knowledge in php is slim so I'm having difficulty trouble shooting this one. I did successfully code a simpler form with only one field. That one is sending correctly. Since this form has multiple fields, it seems to be throwing something off.
<?php
if($_POST["submit"]) {
$recipient="myemail#gmail.com";
$subject="Contact Form";
$sender=$_POST["sender"];
$senderEmail=$_POST["senderEmail"];
$message=$_POST["message"];
$mailBody="Name: $sender\nEmail: $senderEmail\n\n$message";
mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody, "From: $sender <$senderEmail>");
$thankYou="<p>Thank you! Your message has been sent.</p>";}
?>
<?=$thankYou ?>
<form method="post" action="company.php">
<input class="contact" type="text" name="sender"
placeholder="First Name" size="25">
<input class="contact" type="text" name="last"
placeholder="Last Name" size="25">
<input class="contact" type="text" name="title"
placeholder="Title" size="25">
<input class="contact" type="text" name="business"
placeholder="Business" size="25">
<input class="contact" type="email" name="senderEmail"
placeholder="Email" size="25">
<input class="contact" type="text" name="phone"
placeholder="phone" size="25">
<textarea class="contact" name="message"
placeholder="How can we help you?" rows="4" cols="56"></textarea>
<input class="blu-btn" type="submit" name="submit"
value="Send Message">
</form>
It's not throwing any errors, I'm just not receiving the email. I've checked spam, tried a separate email, I'm missing something. Thank you so much for your help!
You should check first if your server is truly sending the mail, changing your code a bit:
if($_POST["submit"])
{
$recipient="myemail#gmail.com";
$subject="Contact Form";
$sender=$_POST["sender"];
$senderEmail=$_POST["senderEmail"];
$message=$_POST["message"];
$mailBody="Name: $sender\nEmail: $senderEmail\n\n$message";
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody, "From: $sender <$senderEmail>"))
{
echo "<p>Thank you! Your message has been sent.</p>";
}
else
{
print_r(error_get_last()["message"]);
}
}
Take a look into the PHP Documentation for mail() function
Return Values
Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for
delivery, FALSE otherwise.
It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for
delivery, it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended
destination.
Probably the server itself isn't properly configured to send email.
Is a shared hosting? Or something like?
Kind regards!
The environment where you run this makes all the difference. Mail may not be configured correctly or, some spam filter blocked it. In this case, nothing in your code can make a difference.
If you have control of the server, and you know how, you could check the mail program. If you are limited to only writing code, you have other options. You can use SMTP and send email through an external service. Then you can use mailtrap.io to capture the outbound email. This is a good way to go for debugging and making sure that your code is right.
You can use SwiftMailer if you want to try an alternative mail client.
I build a website which has a form. Contact form redirects to contact.php on submit. For some reason whenever I submit, it says page not found.
index.html
...
<form action="contact.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" required><br>
E-mail:<br>
<input type="email" name="mail" class="form-control" required><br>
Message:<br>
<input type="text" name="comment" size="50" class="form-control" required><br><br>
<button type="submit" value="Send"> Send Message </button>
</form>
...
contact.php
<?php
if($isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$mailFrom = $_POST['mail'];
$message = $_POST['comment'];
$mailTo = "sample#email.com";
$headers = "From: ".$mailFrom;
mail($mailTo, $name, $message, $headers);
header("Location: index.html");
}
?>
I added a build.sh file containing:
#!/bin/bash
php contact.php
I also added ./build.sh in build command. I feel my script is wrong. Please suggest me alternatives to solve this problem.
A Netlify site is deployed to a CDN and serves up static content and although you can run PHP at the time of a deploy, you cannot execute PHP during a page request.
To submit a form, you can use Netlify Forms or some other serverless forms solution.
I recommend using InfinityFree for hosting the PHP site for free. or if your need is just to send an email form and the rest is static pages then i recommend emailjs that will let you send emails for free. so that you can deploy your site in netlify or vercel
You can use 000webhost.com hosting for uploading your php projects.
I have a contact form that I wrote in the html document and this then is executed by an external php file. How do I validate it? All tutorials that I've looked at have shown the validation and the html form in the actual php file and so how can my validation be accomplished?
HTML5:
<form id="form-area" action="email-processor.php" method="POST">
<div id="name-area"><p>Name (required)</p><input class="form-input" type="text" name="name"></div>
<div id="email-area"><p>Email (required)</p> <input class="form-input" type="text" name="email"></div>
<div id="phone-area"><p>Telephone</p> <input class="form-input" type="text" name="phone"></div>
<div id="msg-area"><p>Message</p><textarea id="msg-input" name="message" rows="6" cols="25"></textarea><br /></div>
<input id="sendbtn" type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent="From: $name \n Phone Number: $phone \n \n Message: \n \n$message";
$recipient = "sampleemail#hotmail.com"
$subject = "Contact Form";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You!";
?>
You need to put required behind the input fields. If you want to make an email required as the standard format xxx#xxx.xxx instead simple text use type="email". For the telephone number you can use type="number" to allow numbers only, otherwise simply use text.
NEW HTML
<form id="form-area" action="email-processor.php" method="POST">
<div id="name-area"><p>Name (required)</p><input type="text" class="form-input" type="text" name="name" required></div>
<div id="email-area"><p>Email (required)</p> <input class="form-input" type="email" name="email" required></div>
<div id="phone-area"><p>Telephone</p> <input class="form-input" type="number" name="phone" required></div>
<div id="msg-area"><p>Message</p><textarea id="msg-input" name="message" rows="6" cols="25" required></textarea><br /></div>
<input id="sendbtn" type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
As has already been pointed out, for client-side validation, you can use the required attribute, which will trigger appearance changes in most web browsers.
However, you MUST do server-side validation as well. Failure to do so will result in vulnerabilities in your application code. For example, your mail() call currently allows unsanitized input for the additional_headers parameter. That means that malicious actors can easily inject whatever headers they want to - e.g. injecting an additional To: or CC: header can turn your server into an open mail relay (i.e. that's bad). Attackers are ALWAYS looking for incorrect usage of the PHP mail() function such as demonstrated by your code.
Because of the poor design of the PHP mail() function, my view is that no one should directly call it. The function is actually much more complicated to use correctly since it is only a basic layer over sendmail and, without significant effort, ignores all sorts of IETF RFCs that govern e-mail. You should use a library such as Ultimate E-mail Toolkit, PHP Mailer, etc. that offer a nicer layer over mail() and/or SMTP to do the actual sending of the e-mail and avoid turning your server into an open relay.
The server is the final authority on what is and is not allowed. For this reason, I use CubicleSoft FlexForms, which aids me in generating HTML forms and processing user input server-side. How you handle things server-side is far more critical than client-side validation, which can and will be ignored by malicious users. You can't control what a client will send and there are plenty of malicious actors out there. So you have to make the unfortunate assumption that all users will attack your software. You should always start with server-side validation and then add client-side validation afterwards.
In addition, your code won't work as you expect. Most mail servers are configured to deny spoofing attempts. You can't assume that you can send e-mail From: someone whose e-mail servers you don't control. The messaging will bounce back and if you send enough spoofed mail messages your server will eventually be added to a global blacklist (via DNSRBL) and denied sending e-mail to anyone else. You can only send "From" an address that you have control over AND have set up things such as a SPF record or DMARC for. Sending e-mail is hard thanks to spammers and the lack of direction by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to solve the problem.
You can, however, use the Reply-To: header with any sanitized e-mail address that you want to use. Most e-mail clients respect the Reply-To header and will use it instead of the From header when it exists.
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I am trying to create a 'contact me' form by sending data in HTML form to an email address using php mail() function.
I am using xampp and testing my code on localhost. I have installed Test Mail Server Tool and it is running on port 25.
Configuration of php.ini file
[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
; SMTP = smtp.secureserver.net
; smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = zain.farid#live.com
HTML Code
<form action="upload.php" method="post" style="height:100%">
<input name="articleTitle" value="Title" maxlength="50"
id="articleTitle">
<textarea name="article-body">
Compose your article...
</textarea>
<script>
CKEDITOR.inline( 'article-body' );
</script>
<input name="senderName" type="text" value="Name" maxlength="50"
id="name" class="textBox">
<input name="senderEmail" value="Email address" maxlength="50"
id="email" class="textBox">
<input name="abtyou" value="About Yourself" maxlength="150"
id="abtyou" class="textBox">
<input type="submit" name="submit" class="button">
</form>
PHP Code
<?php
$thankYou="";
if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {
$recipient="zain.farid#live.com";
$subject="New Guest Post";
$sender=$_POST["senderName"];
$senderEmail=$_POST["senderEmail"];
$senderAbout=$_POST["abtyou"];
$message=$_POST["article-body"];
$title=$_POST["articleTitle"];
$mailBody="Name: $sender\nEmail: $senderEmail\nAbout Sender: $senderAbout\nTitle: $title\n\n$message";
mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody, "From: $sender <$senderEmail>");
$thankYou="Thank you! Your post has been submitted.";
}
?>
No error is reported but i cant see any email in my inbox of the mentioned email address.
Can you please spot the error. I think its a configuration problem because i am using mail server for the first time and i think i might have made an error in configuration. Thank you
first check your spam box
and do notice that main mail services for preventing from spam and fake email reject this type of email ,for test , I think you should set valid mail server accounts like google yahoo and ...
I've got a WordPress site with a contact form that works fine on my MAMP environment, but when I publish to my clients WIMP server I get a failure.
I am not at all familiar with WIMP environments- how does one go about checking PHP error logs
Offhand, are there issues with PHP emailing on WIMP that would be causing this?
Code:
<?php
if ($_POST["contact_name"]<>'') {
$ToEmail = 'me#domain.com';
$EmailSubject = 'New contact message';
$mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["contact_email"]."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["contact_email"]."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY = "<b>Name:</b> ".$_POST["contact_name"]."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "<b>Email:</b> ".$_POST["contact_email"]."<br>";
mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
?>
<h4>Your message was sent. We will be in touch with you shortly.</h4>
<?php
} else {
<form id="contact-form" name="contact" method="post" action="#">
<label for="contact-name">Name *</label>
<input type="text" id="contact-name" name="contact_name" tabindex="1" class="required"/>
<label for="contact-email">Email</label>
<input type="text" id="contact-email" name="contact_email" tabindex="2" class="email" />
<input type="submit" id="contact-submit" name="contact_submit" value="" tabindex="8" />
</form>
<?php
};
?>
Windows does not have a built in email server like unix type OSs tend to have. You need to configure php.ini to add SMTP server information through which to relay email.
The PHP manual page for the `mail()' function details a number of Windows-specific points. However, the main points which could affect you are in this section: (to quote)
The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine).
Second, the custom headers like From:, Cc:, Bcc: and Date: are not interpreted by the MTA in the first place, but are parsed by PHP.
As such, the to parameter should not be an address in the form of "Something <someone#example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.
There are a few other things to consider as well; please read the manual page for more.
Hope that helps.