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Asked: 2026-06-18T05:57:58+00:00

Firstly I would like to say I’m just a very newbie in php. I

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Firstly I would like to say I’m just a very newbie in php.

I have this simple php and as it is at the moment, when it sends the info it appears a horrible “Ok” message.

could you help me improving this php with:
-better code (is it ok? could it be better?)
-I would like to add a fancier answer (like in a box or something similar) in order to advice the user that his message has been sended.

Another thing is I am not sure this is working. I have xampp installed and locally it is not working. I also tried completing the form with all the files uploaded to the server and I´m still waiting for em….the miracle of the mail arriving to my inbox? =S Maybe I did something wrong?

<?php
if(isset($_POST["nombre"]) && isset($_POST["email"]) && isset($_POST["consulta"])){
$mymail = "myemail@gmail.com";
$subject = "Consulta";
$contenido = ":: Nombre: ". $_POST["nombre"]."\n";
$contenido .= ":: E-mail: ". $_POST["email"]."\n";
$contenido .= ":: Escribiò el siguiente mensaje: ". $_POST["consulta"]."\n";

$header = "From:".$_POST["email"]."\n"; 

mail($mymail, $subject, utf8_decode($contenido));*/
echo "&estatus=ok&";
}?>

Thanks in advance for your help!
regards,

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  1. Editorial Team

    In terms of understanding PHP and the mail function, this Link is a pretty good resource on it (as is the site for PHP/web coding in general.
    You’re message to the user is on the last line where it says echo “&status=ok&”; Echo is the function that outputs text to the page. If you know html, you could output any html you would like e.g.

    echo "<b>This success message is in BOLD</b>";

    You’ll want to be careful with quotes though, as you need to Escape them along with some other special characters, e.g.

    echo "This \"code\" will\nprint like \\\"this\\\"";

    will look like 

    This "code" will
print like \"this\"

    Anyways, that’s going off on a tangent. As for your xampp, you have to have your smtp settings configured. Check out this Post.

    Let me know if your questions are answered 🙂

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