Making a PHP email contact form

[Sixmax]

Hey

 

I was wondering how to make an email contact form in PHP. I have tried to write one in HTML, but I can't do that if I want some functions. This is what I want of functions:

 

A contact form where people on my homepage can write a message to different persons, like:

 

1) Name.

2) Email.

3) A field where people can choose whom to send the message to (like a drop down box).

4) Subject.

5) Message.

6) A submit button where (if the form is filled out correctly) people get an pop-up that the message is send correctly.

 

I am totally new to PHP, so if anybody got a link to a guide, or maybe got a premade code, it would be very nice.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Sixmax

[BlueSkyIS]

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en-us&q=php+email+contact+form&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[sam_h]

i also found this tut very useful when applying CSS styles to my forms

 

http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2008/07/27/Enhance-your-input-fields-with-simple-CSS-tricks.aspx

[Sixmax]

Great links!

 

But I still have problems making the drop down box where the writer can choose receiver.

Any suggestions?

 

Sixmax

[Sixmax]

Okay - now i have made the HTML look:

 

<form method="post" action="contact.php">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td><h3 style="border-bottom:1px solid black;">Contact</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="Name" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Name:</label><input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Email" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Email:</label><input type="text" name="Email" id="Email" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;" for="Receiver">Receiver:</label><select name="Receiver" id="Receiver"><option value="[email protected]">Person 1</option><option value="[email protected]">Person 2</option><option value="[email protected]">Person 3</option><option value="[email protected]">Person 4</option></select><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Name" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Subject:</label><input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Message" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Message:</label><textarea name="Message" id="Message" style="width:200px;height:200px;"></textarea><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

</td>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<input type="submit" value=" Submit "> <input type="reset" value=" Reset ">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

 

The question is now - how to create the contact.php so that if "Person 2" is chosen at the drop down box, then the mail is sent to the correct email (in this case [email protected] - just example emails).

I have seen a lot of free copy-pasteable forms on the net, but they only handle the possibility of one receiver - not to choose between different receivers.

 

Hope that some PHP freak got the answer :-)

 

Sixmax

[ngreenwood6]

You would do an if/else statement:

 

ex.

<?php
$contact1 = "[email protected]";
$contact2 = "[email protected]";
$contact3 = "[email protected]";

if($contact1)
{
mail(to, subject, message)
}
elseif($contact2)
{
mail(to, subject, message)
}
else
{
mail(to, subject, message)//this mails $contact3
}

?>

[Sixmax]

So i would like to rename the emails i have written in options in HTML to "contact1", "contact2" and so on, and just write their emails in the PHP?

 

[ngreenwood6]

This is what it would look like for you:

 

<?php

$get_name = $_POST['name'];
$get_email = $_POST['email'];
$get_receiver = $_POST['receiver'];
$get_subject = $_POST['subject'];
$get_message = $_POST['message'];

$to1 = "[email protected]";
$to2 = "[email protected]";
$to3 = "[email protected]";
$to4 = "[email protected]";

$subject = $get_subject;
$message = $get_message;

$header  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$header .= "From: $get_email";

if($get_receiver == $to1)
{
mail($to1, $subject, $message, $header)
}
elseif($get_receiver == $to2)
{
mail($to2, $subject, $message, $header)
}
elseif($get_receiver == $to3)
{
mail($to3, $subject, $message, $header)
}
else
{
mail($to4, $subject, $message, $header)

?>

 

Modify for your needs but you should get it from here.

[kenrbnsn]

You shouldn't put the email addresses into your form, since they will be screen scraped, instead do something like this:

<form method="post" action="contact.php">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td><h3 style="border-bottom:1px solid black;">Contact</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="Name" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Name:</label><input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Email" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Email:</label><input type="text" name="Email" id="Email" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;" for="Receiver">Receiver:</label><select name="Receiver" id="Receiver"><option value="1">Person 1</option><option value="2">Person 2</option><option value="3">Person 3</option><option value="4">Person 4</option></select><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Name" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Subject:</label><input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" value="" maxlength="" style="width:200px;"><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

<label for="Message" style="display:block;margin-bottom:5px;">Message:</label><textarea name="Message" id="Message" style="width:200px;height:200px;"></textarea><div style="clear:left;height:20px;"> </div>

</td>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<input type="submit" value=" Submit "> <input type="reset" value=" Reset ">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

and in the processing script:

<?php
$emails = array('','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]');
if ($_POST['Receiver'] > 0 && $_POST['Receiver'] < 5) $to = $emails[$_POST['Receiver']];
else
   die('Bad Receiver recieved: ' . htmlentities($_POST['Receiver']));
//
// rest of your code
//
?>

 

Ken