Good tutorial Descriptive

greg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Good tutorial

Descriptive and covers all bases.

One thing I would add to your code in your tutorial is the default headers to identify your data and server correctly. Really you should have at least the MIME and content-type.

<?php
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()." \r\n";
?>

The following link gives an

prasanthmj — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:47 +0000

The following link gives an overview of different options you have:
How to get email from an HTML form submission

Also try the cgi form mail example

The mailto href is one of my

decibel.places — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:51:03 +0000

The mailto href is one of my pet peeves!

People will click on the link, and unless they have configured a default email client (I have - Thunderbird) Windows users are likely to see a configuration script that they don't understand and by then they have forgotten what they want to email you about...

I posted a basic PHP email form here as a project - feel free to give it a spin!

greg will tell you it does not check for errors and blank inputs... well, it's basic.

Hi, welcome to TWF I edited

greg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Hi, welcome to TWF

I edited your post to wrap the mailto code in the forum's code tags. They can be found along the top of the posting window (third from the right) along with some other useful tools.

You are better off using EITHER the MAILTO on its own, without a <form>, or using a form.

The latter being the best method as using MAILTO these days can bring you more spam than having a captcha on a form will.

So, you want to POST the form data to another page, then get the form data and use it to send yourself the email.
This is done like this
<form action="second_page.php" method="POST">
Then the user pressing "submit" will send the data to "second_page.php" which will process all the data they entered.

You will need a basic usage of PHP (or other server side), but the major advantage to this is you can check it for errors and blank inputs where fields are required, like user email address can't be blank or how can you reply to them?

If you want us to help with your current code you will have to show us all of it, and link to the site if possible.
If of course you need more info about forms and how to use them, there are some good tutorials already on the net (google html form etc), so take a look at them first, and if you get stuck just ask.