send email via html

[davelf]

i'm making a contact form here,

Question:
How to get message from client / user and send it to my email address.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2856&stc=1&d=1252485255

When user click send button the user email address and message will be send to my acount.

Thx for all of your help...

[prasanthmj]

You need to have a server side script (written in PHP for example).

The following tutorials might help:
How to make a web form (http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/how-to-make-a-form.phtml)

Email Form 'HowTo's (http://www.html-form-guide.com/email-form/)

You can use a 'ready-made' form mail script (http://www.html-form-guide.com/form-mail/form-mail-script.html) as well.

[davelf]

thx for reply. That really help..

But is there another suggestion?

What i really need is just the code that get the value from the textfield and textarea and send it directly to my email account.

[forum_amnesiac]

You definitely need to use a server side script like PHP.

These scripts can be very simple, I've posted examples of this in this forum before.

Here is a simple PHP script to create an email from data collected in a form:


<?php
//variables

//form contents
$txtMessage=$_POST['message'];
$txtMail=$_POST['email'];
$txtMessage = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),'',$txtMessage);
$txtEmail = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),'',$txtMail);
$Myemail="your email address here";


$message ="Message :\t$txtMessage\n
\n"
$subject = "Message from - ".$txtEmail;
$mailheaders = "From: $txtEmail <> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $txtEmail\n\n";

//send mail
mail($Myemail, $subject, $message , $mailheaders);
?>

The variables 'email' and 'message' are the names of input fields in your form.

Save the above PHP to a php file, eg process.php, and in your <form> tag you add, method="POST" action="process.php".

This is a simple example of creating an email, you can add more fields from the input form quite easily.

[davelf]

hi, forum_amnesiac thx a lot for your help. I'll this at my contact form.

One last question:

is that possible to use javascript to make my contact form worked?

because i don't have any experience in PHP. So if there's javascript code to solve this problem, share with me please...

but one's again thx for forum_amnesiac and prasanthmj:)

[X96 Web Design]

Nope - JavScript won't work, it's Client-Side, you need Server-Side.

Most modern hosting providers support PHP, if they don't, then you should really consider switching to a better host....

Cheers,
X96

[davelf]

oow, ok thx. Just want extra information.:)

[thetestingsite]

There are also things called "Remotely Hosted Scripts" which is just what you were looking for in your original post and only require a little bit of code that you have to place in your HTML page. Do a Google search for "Remote Hosted Contact Form".

Hope this helps.

[davelf]

thx for all the reply, i've change my mind and follow all of your suggestion, i will use the php script to handle this contact form.:)