Question

I’m completely lost here. I want to send an email with PHP without leaving my page. But I can’t figure out how to get the data to the PHP file to email it. And when I do get it there, I would be lost. So any help with what the PHP file should look like would be great too.
Here is the form.

<table id="dialog">
        <tr><td><input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Your Name" size="20" class="tbow" /></td></tr>
        <tr><td><input type="text" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Your Email" size="20" class="tbow" /></td></tr>
        <tr><td><input type="text" id="number" name="number" placeholder="Your Phone Number" size="20" class="tbow" /></td></tr>
        <tr><td><textarea id="message" name="message" rows="5" cols="25" class="tbow" placeholder="Your Message"></textarea></td></tr>
        <tr><td><input type="button" value="Send!" onclick="senem();" id="sender" /></td></tr>
</table>

And I’ve tried this…

function senem(){
        var name = document.getElementById("name").value;
        var email = document.getElementById("email").value;
        var number = document.getElementById("number").value;
        var message = document.getElementById("message").value;
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "mmaa.php",
            data: "name=" + name + "&email=" + email + "&number=" + number = "&message=" + message,
            success: alert("It works!!!");
        });
 }

Answer 1

Not intended as a copy-and-paste job, but should give you the building blocks to write it yourself:

Your javascript function;

function senem() {
    jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "http://location/of/script.php",
        data: { var1: "foo", var2: "bar" },
    });
}

and in the php;

<?php
    $var1 = $_POST['var1'];
    $var2 = $_POST['var2']; //do something interesting with these

    $to = "[e-mail]";
    $subject = "Wooo Email!";
    $message = "Sorry John, you're fired.";

    mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]\r\n");
?>

The values of var1 and var2 you will probably want to assign clientside, using jQuery (eg $(“#name”).val(); ) and you will also need to install and configure an SMTP server alongside Apache (use Exim, and find a friendly geek to help you).

PS: the \r\n is because SMTP shares some syntax with HTTP, it’s not important, but the mail command probably won’t work without them.