Newbie to PHP, need help!

[catcahfirefly]

I am not familiar with PHP, but I tried running through the tutorial on how to the PHP Mailer form to work, http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/130/3.php. I uploaded the files to my server, but I don't know what to do next. I had a CGI script working until my hosting company upgraded their perl and the script is no longer compatible with the latest version. All I wanted to do is create a simple feedback form on my site and have the results sent to my e-mail box. I don't get how the PHP communicates with the form. Any suggestions and help would greatly be appreciated. ???

 

Thanks!

 

 

[skali]

1- submit your form as usual to any .php file e.g. process_form.php

2- here you can get all your form variables in PHP built-in array $_POST

3- You can access it as

<?php
   $_POST['form_field_name1'];
   $_POST['form_field_name2'];
   $_POST['form_field_name3'];
?>

 

4- concat all your form field the way you want.

<?php
   $email_message = '';
   $email_message .=   $_POST['form_field_name1'];
   $email_message .=   $_POST['form_field_name2'];
   $email_message .=   $_POST['form_field_name3'];
?>

5- now you have your message ready to be sent to any email address using following php function
bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]] )
[url]http://php.net/mail[/url]