sending email upon hitting submit in html or php - php

Question

I have a simple site with 3 input forms: a first name, last name, and email address fields for the user to fill out. I want them to be able to fill those 3, and when hitting submit, an email to be generated with some autofilled text, for example:
email: what the user put as their email
the subject will be something I make, like, "regarding your _"
and the body of the email to use their first and last name they entered like so:
Dear __ __,
click here to fill out this bla bla bla etc
How would I go about doing this?
any helpful links or tutorials would be fantastic

Answer 1

you can make a simple html and process it by php. You can do like this :
index.php:
<form action='sendmail.php' method='post'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Firstname</td>
<td><input name="firstName" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LastName</td>
<td><input name="firstName" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lastname</td>
<td><input name="lastName" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td><input name="email" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input type='submit' value='send' /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
sendmail.php:
$firstName = $_POST['firstName'];
$lastName = $_POST['lastName'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
//build email content
$emailSubject = "Email subject";
$mailContent = "Regarding ".$firstName." ".$lastName;
$mailContent .= "more content here";
//send mail
if(mail($email,$emailSubject,$mailContent))
echo "mail send successful";
else
echo "mail send fail";
NOTICE: I suppose that all the input param is valid for send mail. You should add more validation for input field.

Answer 2

I would not use the basic mail function within PHP as it does not protect you against header inject (open relay etc).
Take a look at one of these:
- http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.mail.message.html
- http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/cookbook/email/email.html
NB: They can be used outside of the MVC framework, i.e just as a mail library

Answer 3

This short code for this...i hope its clear to you and will help to you, there is a lot of tutorials ......just try to search in google
foreach($_POST as $field_name=>$field_val)
{
$message = $message. $field_name . " : $field_val \n";
}
//email code
$headers = "From: Feedback <".$email.">";
mail($email_to, $subject, $message, $headers);