How to send generated form data by email

[Agreaves]

Below I have a form generated from a php script but I want to be able to send the results by email. How should I go about formatting this in php?

<form method="post" name="body" action="mail.php"><table align="left" width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="left"><b>Name:</b></td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" size="30" /></td>
  	</tr>
  	<tr height="10"><td></td></tr>
  	<tr>
    <td align="left"><b>Email:</b></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="email" size="30" /></td>
</tr>
</table><table align ="center" border="0" padding="15" width="100%"><tr height="10"><td></td></tr><tr id="hdg_bkgrnd"><td width="50"></td><td><b>Id</b></td><td align="left"><b>Name</b></td><td align="left"><b>Quantity</b></td><td align="right"><b>Amount</b></td></tr><tr height="50"><td align="left"><img name='' src='../images/bottle_openers/6966.jpg' width='50' height='50' alt='' /></td><td align"center\ id="cols_bkgrnd"><div name="id">6966</div></td><td align="left" id="cols_bkgrnd">Bottle Opener</td><td align="left" id="cols_bkgrnd">4 <a href="/cart/index.php?action=remove&id=6966">X</a></td><td align="right" id="cols_bkgrnd">$20</td></tr><tr height="50"><td align="left"><img name='' src='../images/candle_holders/4907.jpg' width='50' height='50' alt='' /></td><td align"center\ id="cols_bkgrnd"><div name="id">4907</div></td><td align="left" id="cols_bkgrnd">Skull Candle Holder</td><td align="left" id="cols_bkgrnd">1 <a href="/cart/index.php?action=remove&id=4907">X</a></td><td align="right" id="cols_bkgrnd">$5</td></tr><tr id="hdg_bkgrnd"><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align='right'><div id="total"><b>Total</b></div></td><td align='right'>$25</td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="3" align="right"><input id="submit_btn" name="submit" value="Submit" type="button"/></td><td colspan="3" align="right"><a id="cart_btn" href="/cart/index.php?action=empty" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure?');">Empty</a></td></tr></table></form>

[Christian F.]

I recommend that you start here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php

Then, check up on "phpMailer" or some similar class for sending mails.

 

PS: You'll need to read up on input validation and output escaping (latter for e-mails) as well, to prevent attackers from abusing your script to send spam mail to everyone on the planet.