Send an email from you website

[flabbyrabbit]

This question has been ask so often, so here it is.

Simple mail function, send a flat email.
[php]<?php
$to = 'to@hotmail.com'; //address email should be sent to
$subject = 'subject here'; //Subject of the email
$message = 'enter the message here'; //The message
//These extra headers allow you to set who the message is from
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
//"From" is address that the email would have been sent from
//"Reply-To" is the address that any replies will be sent to
//This line sends your message
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>[/php]
This wont be very useful to most people, as it is very rarely you want to sent the same email to one person repeatedly.

So next i will show you how to create a form that will be used to send the email. I this example i will use a contact form on a web page that allows visitors to send a message to the owner.

First create a page called contact.php, then enter this code:

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<form method=POST action="send.php">
Email: <input name="email"><br>
Subject: <input name="subject"><br>
Message:<br>
<textarea name="message" cols=40 rows=6></textarea><br>
<input type=submit value="send">
</form>

Then make another page called send.php:
[php]<?php
$to ='nosmo-kings@hotmail.com'; //Your email address (webmasters email address)
$subject = $_POST['subject']; //Gets the subject sent by the form
$message = $_POST['message']; //Gets the message sent by the form
$headers = 'From: ' . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
//Changes the reply to email so the webmaster can easily reply
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
//Shows a message when email is sent
echo "message sent";
?>[/php]
Now the contact form should be up and running. Emails may be placed in recipients junk mail box for security reasons.

I hope this answers everyones questions, but if you need any more help don't hesitate to ask,
Flabby Rabbit

[anonymousnewbie]

i think I'm too stupid..
may i know what is the good start for me to learn any basic programming language...do i need to download or installed it?can we start with notepad?i make a research that notepad can save to certain program like .vbs, .bat.
is any other?

[Johnathan]

Yea you can use notepad. Save it as .php the way you save the other stuff in different formats like .html, .vbs and so on.

[DDragon]

ok. i have tried this out and have not got it working properly. with the 'contact.php' is there any php scripting needed? as i am new to PHP scripting and am not sure what to do with it.

Thanks DD

[webmaster]

The only changes in the PHP-script you'll have to do is to change the e-mail in:
$to ='nosmo-kings@hotmail.com';

[leonard]

If you don't want your emails to be marked as spam when they are received, you may want to have a look at this topic:

how-to-avoid-being-spam-vt9653.html

cheers!
- leonard

[DDragon]

Ok i have a large form i need this script for. DO i have to input each individual field into the script or will it take all fields into the message and send as is?

DD

[Johnathan]

You need to put all the individual fields into the script. Well the ones you want to get from your user....

[DDragon]

lol ok now i see *points to self* learn to friggen read sip**** lol
thanks john

[niz972]

Hey all! Trying to use this as a "Send this page to a friend" script so that it included the website link in the message. How would I go about doing this? Thanks in advance!

[dflynn]

niz972

Niz, just add your page url between the quotes in: $message = 'enter the message here';

You just need to devise a way to manage your URLs.
Most sites these days use $ _GET variables in the url such as: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=19

So for this exampe I would use:

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<?php
if(isset($ _GET['page']{
page = $ _GET['page']
}
//bunch of code..
$message = ' blah blah blah, my message.   Link: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page='.$page.'';


Here's Flabbyrabbit's original flat-email code cleaned up a bit.

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<?php
$to = 'to@hotmail.com'; //address email should be sent to

$subject = 'subject here'; //Subject of the email

$message = 'enter the message here'; //The message
//These extra headers allow you to set who the message is from

$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
                 'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
                 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
//"From" is address that the email would have been sent from
//"Reply-To" is the address that any replies will be sent to

//This line sends your message
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>