Sending Mail to specific email becomes a global issue for website development. Online communication for any organization with customers or users is done either by emailing them or through comments. These organizations or companies uses feedback or contact form to communicate with users.

Through these forms, the user is able to send his/her suggestion or feedback via email to respective organization.

Here, In this blog, we will show you, how to use mail() function of PHP to send information like suggestions/messages to the specific email address on form submission.

we used following PHP mail() function with four parameters to send email as follows:


mail("$to", $subject, $message, $headers);
  • Here, $to variable is to store reciever’s email id.
  • $subject is a variable to store mail subject.
  • $message is a variable to store user’s message.
  • $headers contains other email parameters like BCc, Cc etc.

You can download our zip file or simply follow our code and edit it to use.

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jQuery Contact Form

php-feedback-form

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Note : Mail function works only on a web server that supports mail sending functionality. It’s not working on localhost.

Most of the new host company has stopped PHP (mail) functioning, because using this spammer can send a thousand of emails. If your host not enabled with PHP mail function you can send using PHP Mailer Class.

 

HTML file: secure_email_form.php

Here, we have created a simple html Feedback Form as shown below.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>FeedBack Form With Email Functionality</title>
<link href="css/elements.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<!-- Body Starts Here -->
<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Feedback Form Starts Here -->
<div id="feedback">
<!-- Heading Of The Form -->
<div class="head">
<h3>FeedBack Form</h3>
<p>This is feedback form. Send us your feedback !</p>
</div>
<!-- Feedback Form -->
<form action="#" id="form" method="post" name="form">
<input name="vname" placeholder="Your Name" type="text" value="">
<input name="vemail" placeholder="Your Email" type="text" value="">
<input name="sub" placeholder="Subject" type="text" value="">
<label>Your Suggestion/Feedback</label>
<textarea name="msg" placeholder="Type your text here..."></textarea>
<input id="send" name="submit" type="submit" value="Send Feedback">
</form>
<h3><?php include "secure_email_code.php"?></h3>
</div>
<!-- Feedback Form Ends Here -->
</div>
</body>
<!-- Body Ends Here -->
</html>

PHP File: secure_email_code.php

As User fills the above Html form and clicks on send button, following php code will executes.


<?php
if(isset($_POST["submit"])){
// Checking For Blank Fields..
if($_POST["vname"]==""||$_POST["vemail"]==""||$_POST["sub"]==""||$_POST["msg"]==""){
echo "Fill All Fields..";
}else{
// Check if the "Sender's Email" input field is filled out
$email=$_POST['vemail'];
// Sanitize E-mail Address
$email =filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
// Validate E-mail Address
$email= filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
if (!$email){
echo "Invalid Sender's Email";
}
else{
$subject = $_POST['sub'];
$message = $_POST['msg'];
$headers = 'From:'. $email2 . "rn"; // Sender's Email
$headers .= 'Cc:'. $email2 . "rn"; // Carbon copy to Sender
// Message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
// Send Mail By PHP Mail Function
mail("[email protected]", $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Your mail has been sent successfuly ! Thank you for your feedback";
}
}
}
?>

CSS File: elements.css

Styling HTML form is done here.


@import "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway";
/*----------------------------------------------
CSS Settings For HTML Div ExactCenter
------------------------------------------------*/
h3,p,label {
text-align:center;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
color:#006400
}
h2 {
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif
}
input {
width:100%;
margin-bottom:20px;
padding:5px;
height:30px;
box-shadow:1px 1px 12px gray;
border-radius:3px;
border:none
}
textarea {
width:100%;
height:80px;
margin-top:10px;
padding:5px;
box-shadow:1px 1px 12px gray;
border-radius:3px
}
#send {
width:103%;
height:45px;
margin-top:40px;
border-radius:3px;
background-color:#cd853f;
border:1px solid #fff;
color:#fff;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
font-size:18px
}
div#feedback {
text-align:center;
height:520px;
width:330px;
padding:20px 25px 20px 15px;
background-color:#f3f3f3;
border-radius:3px;
border:1px solid #cd853f;
font-family:'Raleway',sans-serif;
float:left
}
.container {
width:960px;
margin:40px auto
}

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Conclusion:
So, you have learnt how to send an email on form submission. Further, you can even notify your users the details regarding their form submission using several email marketing services with higher profficiency. To know more about these services, you can go through the following blog-

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