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Asked: 2026-06-09T06:41:04+00:00

I built an HTML form and whenever I submit it I’m asked to open

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I built an HTML form and whenever I submit it I’m asked to open up G Mail or Outlook. When I do, a new email is opened with the correct email address. The problem is I want it to send without opening anything. I would like to only use HTML for the form, no PHP/MySQL.

        <form method="post" action="mailto:contact@walkerloden.com" enctype="text/plain">
            <p>Name: <input type="text" name="Name" size="20"></p>
            <p>Email: <input type="text" name="Email" size="20"></p>
            <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit"></p>
        </form>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You shouldn’t have your form action set to mailto anything.

    You should instead have that direct to a script you’ve written where you can accept the POST variables and then send an email. There is a native PHP function called mail() which will do just that. Your code should look like this:

    HTML

    <form method="post" action="scripts/mailtome.php" enctype="text/plain">
    <p>Name: <input type="text" name="Name" size="20"></p>
    <p>Email: <input type="text" name="Email" size="20"></p>
    <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit"></p>
</form>

    PHP – mailtome.php

    <?php
    $name = stripslashes(trim($_POST['Name']));
    $email = stripslashes(trim($_POST['Email']));
    $to = 'email@address.com'; 
    $subject = 'CONTACT FORM';

    $body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email";

    if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $name.' - '.$email))
        echo("It worked");
    else
        echo("Something went wrong");
?>
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