How to Get Contact Form Working - php

Question

Okay so I am fairly new to web designing. How do I get the contact form on my current theme to work? This is the current html.
I need to know how to code the PHP file; is this correct?
<div class="form row-fluid clearfix">
<div class="field span5">
<label>Your name:</label>
<input type="text" value="" class="req" placeholder="Placeholder text..." />
</div>
<div class="field span5">
<label>Your email:</label>
<input type="email" value="" class="req" />
</div>
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
<div class="field full">
<label>Your comment:</label>
<textarea class="span12" cols="2" rows="7"></textarea>
</div>
<button class="extruded"><span>Submit</span></button>
</div>
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: iclear';
$to = 'sales#tangledindesign.com';
$subject = 'Hello';
?>
And how do I link the PHP file for that contact form?

Answer 1

Step 1
Wrap your fields with a form HTML element that has its action property set to your php processing page
Step 2
Name the form fields according to what the php file expects
Step 3
Add some validation
Step 4
Submit and test
Example
HTML
<form action="process.php" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name">
<input type="submit">
</form>
PHP
<?php
$first_name=$_POST["first_name"];
if($first_name=="John")
{
echo "Hi John!";
}
else
{
echo "Sorry Buddy, Don't really know you";
}
?>
Note
The reason why i did not provide you a full solution is that you mentioned you are a newbie in that programming, and it would be injustice to just solve your problem and not guide you how to do it

Answer 2

You need to wrap your HTML with the tag, and don't forget to get include the submit button:
<form action="process.php" method="post">
<div class="form row-fluid clearfix">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="text" name="message">
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</div>
</form>
Then here is the php (process.php) file to get all values from your HTML form:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: iclear';
$to = 'sales#tangledindesign.com';
$subject = 'Hello';
Hope this help.

Answer 3

Try this code
<?php
$toaddress ="youremail#domain.com" //change to your email address
$error ="";
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=="POST") {
$name=$_POST['name'] ;
$email=$_POST['email'] ;
$comment=$_POST['comment'] ;
if(!isset($name) || $name==""){
$error .="Please Enter your name <br/>";
}elseif (!isset($email) || $email==""){
$error .="Please Enter your email Address.<br/>";
}elseif(!isset($comment) || $comment==""){
$error .="Please Enter your Comments.<br/>";
}
if ($error ==""){
mail($toaddress,"Contact form",$comment)
}
}
?>
<?php echo $error ;?>
<form method='post' action='' enctype='multipart/form-data' id='news_form' name='post_form' >
<div class="form row-fluid clearfix">
<div class="field span5">
<label>Your name:</label>
<input name="name" type="text" value="" class="req" placeholder="Placeholder text..." />
</div>
<div class="field span5">
<label>Your email:</label>
<input type="email" value="" class="req" name="email" />
</div>
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
<div class="field full">
<label>Your comment:</label>
<textarea class="span12" cols="2" rows="7" name="comment"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</div>
</form>