PHP+HTML Contact form tutorial

Hey all, had a few people asking about a PHP based contact form so here is a really simple one you can use. There will be another video up next thursday showing you how to improve this contact form security wise and with further validation!

[latishvohra]

I have to express my sincere thanks to you sir. With this great tutorial, I was able to fix my website's contact form. Many many thanks! Keep up the great work. Latish

[MrIDGAFprod]

Yeah im amazed! You made coding easy man, dont know how to thank you enough!

[HarryFinn]

Information Management with Business - basically a couple of core modules on web based development and system analysis then some generic business stuff like marketing/online marketing, project management etc just finished my 2nd year and am now working as an intern at a company doing web development :)

[fauziahcoffey]

Great stuff and the format is logical. Very helpful comments. I can teach this to the young uns instead of mailto style. Look forward to the more secure version. Your line by line comment is very useful. Thanks

[jordanirene]

your tutorial has been very helpful. thank you very much.

[FlashVision]

This is exactly what I needed thank you so much!!

[isaiahkrischellercabales]

Thanks alot bro. That really helps me.hope you'll help more programmer to enhance their knowledge…

[dareboypk]

Works Perfect! You're the best, saved my life. :) Big Like...

[HarryFinn]

yes of course, all you need an web server with PHP running on it (with mail function enabled - on by default) - You'll then need to configure your localhost setup with a basic smtp setup in order to send emails out externally, or setup a local (internal) email for the localhost account to email out to. Or if you have some basic web hosting available (PHP supported) then just upload it to that.

[diegocdh]

Thank you very much, it was very helpful!

[obio]

Awesome tutorial! I appreciate the line by line explanation. I am new to PHP and would like to test my scripts on my local drive. any ideas on what tools I need? It seems you tested yours locally. When I attempt to do the same my contact.php file on my windows OS won't open since the .php extension is not recognizable by any software I currently have... thanks!

[palashmitra]

Very nice tutorial for sending mail through web.
Thank you very much.

[HarryFinn]

Hey all - there will be a new video tutorial shortly which will be a revised version of this form, looking into some jQuery and PHP validation techniques which would help both secure the form and improve the user experience for this contact form.

There will be a note on this video when it goes live along with a link in this video's description!

[shakaama]

both messages show, when the page loads. what could I have done wrong? I keep going over the code to make sure I didn't miss something, or syntax errors.

[HarryFinn]

Ok, I think I know what you mean, the best way to do this would be by storing the information in a mysql database and using PHP to query the output however why would you be looking to use a contact form for this?

[GrinahStones]

Great tutorial Harry, but how do you make it more secure? (to stop web-crawlers and the like...All the best :0)

[GrandpaBill]

Your link does 'not' take me to the CSS file. Nor can I find it on your site using the search window. I wish you had posted the PHP/HTML file as well, so we could do a copy-n-paste.
Grandpa Bill

[HarryFinn]

Hi there, what exactly do you mean by area on your webpage? Do you mean that when you submit the form it will output what was entered on the page when it reloads/processes?

[linardzb]

Loved your tutorial, very neat. I have just one problem, when I submit the form after filling up all the fields it still says that I have to fil all the boxes, and the email is not sent. Can you tell me what might be wrong. Code is all correct. Cheers

[makedaevilmage]

Even the text in my footer seems to be acting up now, went to the top of the div instead of staying at vertical middle.