Tutorials for passing value data to email with PHP - php

Question

I have built a html form in which a user has to specify which product he likes to order and depending on his answer other input fields arise. I have used some javascript for that. But now i want to data the user enters to be passed on to email via php. I know very little of php and scripting in general (let's say about nothing) but i did find some tutorials and templates on it. The only thing is that they all seem slightly different and specific to a form (mostly contact forms). And if i follow them closely it works fine, it's just that when i want to customize a little i seem to get terribly lost.
I have posted this before (Can i post data from a select drop down to email using PHP?) and have gotten some answers. It's just that i didn't formulate my initial problem well enough and edited it afterwards, but i don't know if that's the way to go on this forum. So i posted a new question (sorry if that's overkill, i'm pretty new to all of this). This is my html:
<form method="post" name="contact_form" action="contact.php">
<div class="form-div1">
<label for="profile" class="label1">Select your profile</label>
<br>
<select id="user-type" class="selectlist">
<option value="option1">I'm a first-time user</option>
<option value="option2">I would like to renew or upgrade</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-div2">
<label for="SEN" class="label2">SEN</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="input1" class="input1">
</div>
<div class="form-div3">
<label for="email" class="label3">Email Address</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="input2" class="input2">
</div>
<div class="form-div4">
<label for="product_choice" class="label4" name="select_menu">Select your product</label>
<br>
<select id="product" class="selectlist">
<option value="option1">JIRA</option>
<option value="option2">Confluence</option>
<option value="option3">JIRA Service Desk</option>
<option value="option4">Stash</option>
<option value="option5">Other</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-div42">
<label for="product" class="label42">Specify your product</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="input2" class="input2">
</div>
<div class="form-div5">
<label for="license_choice" class="label5">Select your license</label>
<br>
<select id="select" class="selectlist">
<option value="option1">25 users</option>
<option value="option2">50 users</option>
<option value="option3">100 users</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="input_box_atlassian">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button-atl" />
</div>
</form>
Now i want to build working php so i can pass the data to an email. Can somebody point me in the right direction or preferably show me some tutorials that tackle this issue more closely.

Answer 1

I havent dont any validation, try client side & server side validation along with code
Change the HTML as below
<form method="post" name="contact_form" action="contact.php">
<div class="form-div1">
<label for="profile" class="label1">Select your profile</label>
<br>
<select id="user_type" name="user_type" class="selectlist">
<option value="I'm a first-time user">I'm a first-time user</option>
<option value="I would like to renew or upgrade">I would like to renew or upgrade</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-div2">
<label for="SEN" class="label2">SEN</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="SEN" class="SEN">
</div>
<div class="form-div3">
<label for="email" class="label3">Email Address</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="email" class="email">
</div>
<div class="form-div4">
<label for="product_choice" class="label4" name="select_menu">Select your product</label>
<br>
<select id="product" name="product" class="selectlist">
<option value="JIRA">JIRA</option>
<option value="Confluence">Confluence</option>
<option value="JIRA Service Desk">JIRA Service Desk</option>
<option value="Stash">Stash</option>
<option value="Other">Other</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-div42">
<label for="product" class="label42">Specify your product</label>
<br>
<input type "text" name="product_specify" id="product_specify" class="input2">
</div>
<div class="form-div5">
<label for="license_choice" class="label5">Select your license</label>
<br>
<select id="license_choice" name="license_choice" class="selectlist">
<option value="25">25 users</option>
<option value="50">50 users</option>
<option value="100">100 users</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="input_box_atlassian">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button-atl" />
</div>
</form>
And make another PHP file by the name contact.php & paste the below code.
<?php
if($_REQUEST['submit']=='Submit'){
$user_type=$_REQUEST['user_type'];
$sen=$_REQUEST['SEN'];
$email=$_REQUEST['email'];
$product=$_REQUEST['product'];
$product_specify=$_REQUEST['product_specify'];
$license_choice=$_REQUEST['license_choice'];
$to = 'nobody#example.com'; //to whom the email have to besnd
$message = "User Type: $user_type \n Sen: $sen \n Email: $email \n Product: $product \n Product Specified: $product_specify \n License: $license_choice"; //content of the email
$subject = 'hello'; //shown as subject of the email
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" . //eamil header information
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "Mail Sucessfully Sent";
} else {
echo "Something went wrong";
}
}
?>
This will get the content from the form HTML & email its contents, however only if the email server is configured correctly

Answer 2

Consider the following URL http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php
Cheers!!