send the form information to my email box with php - php

Question

<input type="button" class="button" />
<form action="" method="">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="text" email="email" />
<input type="text" phone="phone" />
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class="submit"/>
</form>
1,click the button, then popup the form, after the user fills out all the information in the form than click the submit button, send all the form information to my eamil box.
how to write the action part. and which method should i use? should i use mail function to send the email or other ways?
i may use jquery to pop up the form window, but i don't know how to collect the form information,then send it my email box.

Answer 1

It is a very broad question, but in a nutshell this is how it is done:
Post the form to a php file that will handle it and use PHP mail() function to send it:
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
process.php:
<?php
if (isset($_POST)):
foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value):
$message = "$key : $value \n";
endforeach;
mail('mymail#example.com', 'My Subject', $message);
endif;

Answer 2

You need to post it then send the email. Also, <input type="text" email="email" /> needs to be <input type="text" name="email" /> need to use the name attribute.
Try this:
<?php
if (!empty($_POST)){
$send_message = 'Name: ' . $_POST[name] . ' Email: ' . $_POST[email] . ' Phone: ' . $_POST[phone] . ' Message: ' . $_POST[message];
mail('youremail#email.com', 'Subject', $send_message);
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="text" name="email" />
<input type="text" name="phone" />
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class="submit"/>
</form>