[BEGINNER] Need help with my Form

[timph]

Hello,

I've got a contact form on my site but idk how to make it send the details to me. I just want it to send the details to my email or to a file on my server.

[Ingolme]

You need a server-side language such as PHP to send the mail. HTML alone can't do it.

[timph]

You need a server-side language such as PHP to send the mail. HTML alone can't do it.

Would this script work?

 

<?php if(isset($_POST['email'])) {          // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED     $email_to = "you@yourdomain.com";     $email_subject = "Your email subject line";               function died($error) {         // your error code can go here         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['first_name']) ||         !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||         !isset($_POST['email']) ||         !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||         !isset($_POST['comments'])) {         died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');            }          $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required     $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required     $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required     $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required     $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required          $error_message = "";     $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';   if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {     $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';   }     $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";   if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {     $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';   }   if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {     $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';   }   if(strlen($comments) < 2) {     $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';   }   if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {     died($error_message);   }     $email_message = "Form details below.nn";          function clean_string($string) {       $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");       return str_replace($bad,"",$string);     }          $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."n";     $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."n";     $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."n";     $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."n";     $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."n";           // create email headers $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."rn". 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."rn" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);   ?>   <!-- include your own success html here -->   Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.   <?php } ?>

[Ingolme]

Well, that should work as long as you run it on a server with PHP enabled and a mailing service. You may need to customize the script.

[timph]

Well, that should work as long as you run it on a server with PHP enabled and a mailing service. You may need to customize the script.

Would it work on a free domain with 000webhost

[Ingolme]

I do think 000webhost supports PHP mail. Try it and see. I would recommend going through the W3Schools.com PHP tutorial if you haven't learned PHP yet.

[timph]

I do think 000webhost supports PHP mail. Try it and see. I would recommend going through the W3Schools.com PHP tutorial if you haven't learned PHP yet.

Hello,

I changed the php code above to my information and it still doesn't work when I try to send a mail.