how to create a contact form using phpmailer code example
Example 1: how to connect contact form to email in php
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Contact Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="form-container">
<form name="frmContact" id="" frmContact"" method="post"
action="" enctype="multipart/form-data"
onsubmit="return validateContactForm()">
<div class="input-row">
<label style="padding-top: 20px;">Name</label> <span
id="userName-info" class="info"></span><br /> <input
type="text" class="input-field" name="userName"
id="userName" />
</div>
<div class="input-row">
<label>Email</label> <span id="userEmail-info"
class="info"></span><br /> <input type="text"
class="input-field" name="userEmail" id="userEmail" />
</div>
<div class="input-row">
<label>Subject</label> <span id="subject-info"
class="info"></span><br /> <input type="text"
class="input-field" name="subject" id="subject" />
</div>
<div class="input-row">
<label>Message</label> <span id="userMessage-info"
class="info"></span><br />
<textarea name="content" id="content"
class="input-field" cols="60" rows="6"></textarea>
</div>
<div>
<input type="submit" name="send" class="btn-submit"
value="Send" />
<div id="statusMessage">
<?php
if (! empty($message)) {
?>
<p class='<?php echo $type; ?>Message'><?php echo $message; ?></p>
<?php
}
?>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validateContactForm() {
var valid = true;
$(".info").html("");
$(".input-field").css('border', '#e0dfdf 1px solid');
var userName = $("#userName").val();
var userEmail = $("#userEmail").val();
var subject = $("#subject").val();
var content = $("#content").val();
if (userName == "") {
$("#userName-info").html("Required.");
$("#userName").css('border', '#e66262 1px solid');
valid = false;
}
if (userEmail == "") {
$("#userEmail-info").html("Required.");
$("#userEmail").css('border', '#e66262 1px solid');
valid = false;
}
if (!userEmail.match(/^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/))
{
$("#userEmail-info").html("Invalid Email Address.");
$("#userEmail").css('border', '#e66262 1px solid');
valid = false;
}
if (subject == "") {
$("#subject-info").html("Required.");
$("#subject").css('border', '#e66262 1px solid');
valid = false;
}
if (content == "") {
$("#userMessage-info").html("Required.");
$("#content").css('border', '#e66262 1px solid');
valid = false;
}
return valid;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Example 2: how to connect contact form to email in php
<?php
if(!empty($_POST["send"])) {
$name = $_POST["userName"];
$email = $_POST["userEmail"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$content = $_POST["content"];
$toEmail = "admin@phppot_samples.com";
$mailHeaders = "From: " . $name . "<". $email .">\r\n";
if(mail($toEmail, $subject, $content, $mailHeaders)) {
$message = "Your contact information is received successfully.";
$type = "success";
}
}
require_once "contact-view.php";
?>
Example 3: how to connect contact form to email in php
<?php
if (isset($_POST['Email'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "[email protected]";
$email_subject = "New form submissions";
function problem($error)
{
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br><br>";
echo $error . "<br><br>";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br><br>";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if (
!isset($_POST['Name']) ||
!isset($_POST['Email']) ||
!isset($_POST['Message'])
) {
problem('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$name = $_POST['Name']; // required
$email = $_POST['Email']; // required
$message = $_POST['Message']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if (!preg_match($email_exp, $email)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br>';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if (!preg_match($string_exp, $name)) {
$error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br>';
}
if (strlen($message) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Message you entered do not appear to be valid.<br>';
}
if (strlen($error_message) > 0) {
problem($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string)
{
$bad = array("content-type", "bcc:", "to:", "cc:", "href");
return str_replace($bad, "", $string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: " . clean_string($name) . "\n";
$email_message .= "Email: " . clean_string($email) . "\n";
$email_message .= "Message: " . clean_string($message) . "\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>
Example 4: how to connect contact form to email in php
if (empty($emailError) && empty($messageError)) {
// all the code should go here
}