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You may find working examples on http://pk1.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Create a new file, name it email_script.php and save it in the root folder after this copy the following php code, paste it in the email_script.php file and save it again.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email']))
{
$email_to= ",";
$email_subject= "Message title for example: Rent an Office Enquiry:";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_from = $_POST['email'];
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$newsletter = $_POST['newsletter'];
$message = $_POST['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_from)."\\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\\n";
$email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\\n";
$email_message .= "Subscribe for Emails: ".clean_string($newsletter)."\\n";
$thankyou="Mail Sent!! Thank you " . $name . ", we will contact you shortly.<br /> Go back to <a href="http://www.consultseouk.co.uk/">Homepage</a>";
// Email Header
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\\r\\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\\r\\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.;
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
echo $thankyou;
}
?>
Now Here is the Html code to create the form fields within a table:
<div class="widgets contact-form-position" >
<div class="homepage-contact-us-form widget-child-box" >
<div class="widget-h3-a"> <h3>Contact Us</h3></div>
<table>
<form action="http://www.yourdomain.com/email_script.php" method="POST" name="contactform"><input type="hidden" name="action" value="submit" />
<tr><td> <label for="Keyword">Name:</label> </td></tr>
<tr><td> <input type="text" name="name" tabindex="2" value="" /> </td></tr>
<tr><td> <label for="name">Email:</label> </td></tr>
<tr><td> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="" tabindex="1" />
</td></tr>
<tr><td><label for="Keyword">Mobile:</label></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="text" name="phone" tabindex="2" value="" /></td></tr>
<tr><td><label for="textarea">Enquiry:</label></td> </tr>
<tr><td><textarea cols="40" rows="8" name="message" id="textarea"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td><input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" name="checkbox" id="checkbox" />
<label for="checkbox"><small>Send me weekly emails for new properties</small></label></td></tr>
<tr><td> <input class="contact-button" type="submit" value="Submit" /></td></tr>
</form>
</table>
</div>
</div>
Don't forget to replace your email ids with the example email ids on line:
$email_to= ",";
you can use multiple ids at a time just by using comma "," after each email id.
Well there is a lot of ways to send mails using mail function in php but the best is to organize ur code and work .. check this example and see how you can organize your code by using functions and classes
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
<html>
<body>
<?php function spamcheck($field) { // Sanitize e-mail address
$field=filter_var($field, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); // Validate e-mail address
if(filter_var($field, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
return TRUE;
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}?>
<h2>Feedback Form</h2>
<?php// display form if user has not clicked submitif (!isset($_POST["submit"])) { ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];?>">
From: <input type="text" name="from">
<br>
Subject: <input type="text" name="subject">
<br>
Message: <textarea rows="10" cols="40" name="message"></textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Feedback">
</form>
<?php }else // the user has submitted the form { // Check if the "from" input field is filled out
if (isset($_POST["from"])) { // Check if "from" email address is valid
$mailcheck = spamcheck($_POST["from"]);
if ($mailcheck==FALSE) {
echo "Invalid input";
} else {
$from = $_POST["from"]; // sender
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"]; // message lines should not exceed70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message,70); // send mail mail("",$subject,$message,"From: $from\\\\n");
echo "Thank you for sending us feedback";
}
}
}?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$to = ';
$subject = 'Php email test';
$message = "Assalam alaikum.This is just a test email.";
$headers .= 'From: coder : <>' . "\\r\\n" .
'Reply-To: ariya : <>' . "\\r\\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "email sent";
?>
Cheers!
$to = '';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: ' . "\\r\\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . "\\r\\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Refrence: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
