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Mike Marks
Mike Marks

Reputation: 10129

How do I send email via PHP from within an HTML file?

My website is HTML5. Consequently, my files are .html. I have a contact.html file that I would like to use to send a message from, using PHP. I don't have much experience with PHP (so if anyone could recommend a better alternative, non-.NET way of sending email, please let me know).

My initial thought was to include my PHP code inside my HTML file (whether or not this is possible or even recommended, I don't know). I've done this once before, and I believe I remember having a form tag that somewhere in its attributes specified the .php file that I used to send the email.

Something like <form someattribute="sendmail.php"> ... </form>.

QUESTION: Given what I THINK I should do (above), is this the best approach (specifying the PHP file inside my form tag), or do you recommend a better way to send email from a raw .html file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1329

Answers (5)

Logan Murphy
Logan Murphy

Reputation: 6230

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

mail.html

<form action="mail.php" method="post">
    To <input type="text" name="to"/><br/>
    Subject <input type="text" name="subject"/><br/>
    Message <textarea name="message"></textarea><br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>

mail.php

<?php
    mail($_POST["to"] , $_POST["subject"], $_POST["message"]);
    header("Location: mail.html"); //redirect the user
?>

Upvotes: 2

Vladimir Hraban
Vladimir Hraban

Reputation: 3581

You cannot do that only with HTML. If you stick to PHP solution, try

<?php
    if(isset($_POST['send'])) //check the submit button was pressed
    {
        //get variables from POST array. Remember we specified POST method
        $to = $_POST['to'];
        $subject = $_POST['subject'];
        $message = $_POST['message'];

        //set up headers
        $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
                    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

        //send the email and save the result
        $result = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

        //was it sent?
        if($result)
        {
            echo "Successfuly sent the email";
        }
        else
        {
            echo "An error has occured";
        }
    }
?>
<hr>
<form method="POST">
    To: <input type="text" name="to"> <br>
    Subject: <input type="text" name="subject"> <br>
    Text: <textarea name="message"></textarea><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Send" name="send">
</form>

You do not need to specify where the form points to because it is the same file. Otherwise it would be

<form action="somefile.php" method="POST">

Altough you have to specify the method POST, otherwise all the data will be sent through GET by default

PHP has a mail function that is used to send the email http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.

We check if the email is sent or not and print a corresponding message. Then, regardless of the result, we print out the message form.

Upvotes: 5

Menelmor
Menelmor

Reputation: 72

If you're just trying to send the form info via e-mail it's fairly simple.

<form action="sendmail.php">

just need to make sure you're coding your php file correctly.

Upvotes: 2

Rohit Choudhary
Rohit Choudhary

Reputation: 2269

You can easily send the mail by posting the data into a php file. Just need to write some codein that php file and in form user action='phpfilename.php'. Thats it.

Upvotes: 2

Nathan Loding
Nathan Loding

Reputation: 3235

HTML is only client side, and is just markup so it cannot send an email. You should have a form that posts to a PHP page, as you suggest, and that PHP page sends the email.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp

Upvotes: 1

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