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October 30th, 2007, 22:00
I got this code when I searched simple php send email form. I guess this is good for my use.
<html>
<head><title>PHP Mail Sender</title></head>
<body>
<?php
/* All form fields are automatically passed to the PHP script through the array $HTTP_POST_VARS. */
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
$subject = $HTTP_POST_VARS['subject'];
$message = $HTTP_POST_VARS['message'];
/* PHP form validation: the script checks that the Email field contains a valid email address and the Subject field isn't empty. preg_match performs a regular expression match. It's a very powerful PHP function to validate form fields and other strings - see PHP manual for details. */
if (!preg_match("/\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*/", $email)) {
echo "<h4>Invalid email address</h4>";
echo "<a href='javascript:history.back(1);'>Back</a>";
} elseif ($subject == "") {
echo "<h4>No subject</h4>";
echo "<a href='javascript:history.back(1);'>Back</a>";
}
/* Sends the mail and outputs the "Thank you" string if the mail is successfully sent, or the error string otherwise. */
elseif (mail($email,$subject,$message)) {
echo "<h4>Thank you for sending email</h4>";
} else {
echo "<h4>Can't send email to $email</h4>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
The thing is that I am new to PHP but I have been using HTML for 3 or more years. In the code i cannot see any font face (if they do not use font face to tell the name of the font, then please correct me). I also thought that PHP codes start with <?php> and end with <?> but I don't see those here.
This code is from about.com-
<?php
$to = "you@yoursite.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
This looks correct to me. But is it all that?
For about.com, I also got all these codes-
mail ( "me@mysite.com", "Contact Us Form", "This is an email from your site", "From: you@yoursite.com" )
<form method="post" action="contact.php">
Email: <input name="email" type="text"><br>
Message:<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
Which one do I use? And for different language, I can use Vrinda which is used in this website (http://datta.quotaless.com/webmaster/index.html).
So, I want to combine the form in that website and the buttons to send the email itself.
Thanks............