Tutorial Simple PHP Contact Form

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Hello CCM!

Today I’m Going To Show A Quick Tutotial On How To Make A Simple PHP Contact Form!

So Let’s Get Into It.

First You Will Need To Open A IDE Of Your Choice!

I Highly Recommend Sublime Or NotePad++


Once You Have Opened Your IDE Of Choice Create A File Called

contact.php

In That File Add The Following Code

HTML:
<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Contact Form </strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><form name="form1" method="post" action="send.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="16%">Subject</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%"><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Detail</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4" id="detail"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="customer_mail" type="text" id="customer_mail" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now Once You Have Done That, Save The File!


But Hold Up, Were Not Done Yet

Now You Need To Create Another File Called send.php

In That File Add The Following Code (Edit It To Your Needs & Add Your Email Address In The $to Part)

PHP:
<?php

// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";

// Details
$message="$detail";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";

// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='[email protected]';
$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>


Now Save That File Aswell And Upload Them To Your Website / Server

Now Send A Test Message And Make Sure It All Works!

That’s All For This Quick Tutorial!

Thanks For Looking Guys, Hope You Have A Nice Day!

If You Need Any Help Feel Free To Contact Me!


PS. Sorry About The Formatting, I Wrote This On My Phone Using An App
 
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Probably necro’ing an old thread but tables :mask: - Not very good for mobile optimisation, but alright code non-the-less

Tbh I would probably go with Materialize Premade tables (because their overall design is much sleeker) and incorporate your PHP to work with it.

Good thread non the less
 

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Probably necro’ing an old thread but tables :mask: - Not very good for mobile optimisation, but alright code non-the-less

Tbh I would probably go with Materialize Premade tables (because their overall design is much sleeker) and incorporate your PHP to work with it.

Good thread non the less
yeah lol, i wrote it on my phone :grinning: and i had a shitty iphone 5s (got iphone 8plus in grey now) so i can see what im doing properly,maybe i should re do it all on my pc, but thanks mate
 

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This put's emails in spam?! Or is it just me? Using the mail function to send confirmation emails out on
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and they end up in spam...
No, it’s just a contact form, say for instance you send a message / email to me it shows your email etc
 

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No, it’s just a contact form, say for instance you send a message / email to me it shows your email etc
I know what it is... the mail function for me, sends those emails to the spam box...
 

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I know what it is... the mail function for me, sends those emails to the spam box...
Ahh right lol give me 10 mins, I’ll reply back to this with a different type of php mailer, if your using a vps like I am then install sendmail
 

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Ahh right lol give me 10 mins, I’ll reply back to this with a different type of php mailer, if your using a vps like I am then install sendmail
Which should output it like this
 

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Which should output it like this
I am using the PHP function 'mail()' in my script. Not on a VPS, but shared hosting...
Sending my emails to spam... Not a huge issue, I don't care, but bugs me a little.
 

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I am using the PHP function 'mail()' in my script. Not on a VPS, but shared hosting...
Sending my emails to spam... Not a huge issue, I don't care, but bugs me a little.
$to = $email; $subject = 'Your Subject'; $message = 'Your Message'; $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n"; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

try that bro took it straight from my site
 

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I know what it is... the mail function for me, sends those emails to the spam box...

The problem is simple that the PHP-Mail function is not using a well configured SMTP Server.

Nowadays Email-Clients and Servers perform massive checks on the emails sending server, like Reverse-DNS-Lookups, Graylisting and whatevs. All this tests will fail with the php mail() function. If you are using a dynamic ip, its even worse.

Use the PHPMailer-Class and configure it to use smtp-auth along with a well configured, dedicated SMTP Server (either a local one, or a remote one) and your problems are gone.

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