setup email for contact us in html using php 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 (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);
?>

    <!-- include your success message below -->

    Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php
}
?>

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