Question

I’m looking to create a form on my website where users can enter their email address and a message (however long). Then upon clicking on a submit button, the code, sends the message as an email to my mailbox.

I was wondering if someone knew what code i could use. I am using PHP as my server-side language.

Answer 1

You need to have access to an smtp server somewhere. Assuming you do, use the php mail function to send the mail like so:

$Name = 'John doe'; //senders name  $email = '[e-mail]'; //senders e-mail adress  $recipient = '[e-mail]'; //recipient  $mail_body = 'The text for the mail...'; //mail body  $subject = 'Subject for receiver'; //subject  $header = 'From: '. $Name . ' <' . $email . '>\r\n'; //optional headerfields  mail($recipient, $subject, $mail_body, $header); 

The smtp server is set in the php.ini file in these two lines:

SMTP = servername smtp_port = 25 

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