Question

I want to send the information the user has filled out from an HTML form to my email address. From my understanding, this cannot be done by using only client-side coding due to the nature of how emails work, and suggested to use PHP (combined with AJAX) to handle the server-side code. I followed the guide here but I am not receiving any emails at my email address. I am testing locally on my machine (using XAMPP) before I deploy my code on my client’s web space (goDaddy). I want to note that I have never used PHP before.

Javascript:

var data = "This is my email";
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "email.php",
    data: data,
    dataType: "text"
});

PHP (email.php):

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "This is my email";
$message = $_REQUEST;
$send = mail($to, $subject, $message);
if(!$send){    
    die();  
}
?>

Answer 1

XAMPP doesn’t have an e-mail sending thing by itself as default. You may check the links below;

php mail setup in xampp

How do I enable XAMPP to locally use the php's mail() function so I can test my mail() scripts locally without having to upload to my server?