Send email with PHP | Create a Working Contact Form Using PHP

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In this video you'll learn how to:
• create a contact form in HTML, including client-side validation
• install and configure the PHPMailer package
• send email using PHPMailer
• debug problems when sending the email
• use the post / redirect / get pattern

Code shown in the video:

Using Gmail's SMTP server:

PHPMailer:

PHPMailer documentation:

CSS:

00:00 Introduction
00:19 Create contact form
01:32 Style the form
02:06 Create PHP script
02:52 Get SMTP server
03:37 Sending email from PHP
04:01 Install PHPMailer
04:12 Use PHPMailer
06:57 Debugging
08:31 POST / redirect / GET
09:50 Summary

#PHP #PHPMailer #SMTP #email

[dave-hollingworth]

What other related topics would you like to see a video on?

[StevieB]

I only found this channel earlier today, but I love your delivery. Really easy to understand. I will have been coding for exactly one year tomorrow and I've just finished building my first full-stack project using JavaScript and PHP. Hope you produce more PHP videos for this channel. Thanks for sharing, Dave, subscribed!

[getoverhere]

Is actually really frustrating that no one wants to do a tutorial a tutorial for a working email form that has the proper security features that are required by web host. That's mainly the whole reason why you would incorporate PHP into the email.

[tlb]

Thanks Dave. You're still helping people.

[sampsonchinonso]

I never knew you could use an smtp with php…Thank you

[Shashidhara_S_C]

I was struggling to send an email through php thanks Dave Hollingworth sir for the usefull video.💌

[AnnabethChase-zpep]

I had never heard of classless css
this is lifechanging😭😭

[miaenderby]

Thank you so much for this video! I have been so stressed trying to do this for so long

[alan-overthenet]

Great, Dave. This is helpful and very useful for me. Thanks for your efforts.

[davidh]

Hi Dave! Finishing up the second Udemy MVC course man what a blessing. Gonna use this email technique with it. You taught us a lot of what I learned in college about Java in those two courses. Extremely valuable resource for up and coming developers. I am going to build a couple more frameworks using some textbooks I found and implement the best from all of them. Your framework is the baseline the router is awesome thank you! It acts like a sort of white list or catalog of pages a user can access on your site. Very cool piece of the puzzle as far as organization and access control.

[Alejandro]

Great channel, easy to understand and very complete, subscribed already.

[marcoaureliodemesquita]

Great video, congrats!

I'm new here, and I will check out other videos on the channel.

Two topics that interest me would be a video about superglobal variables in PHP and how to implement a "shopping cart" on PHP and MySQL.

[DocRamadani]

Hi Dave, thank you so much for the video. It really helped me to solve a small task very quickly! THANKS!!!!

[ldeutscher]

Nice job of explaining this so it makes sense! Only I want to send through my own webhost mail server, so need to find out how to do that, but Thank you, as I understand more now then I did before watching this!

[ReynaldoUbas]

thanks that is awesome straight forward tutorial

[dannyreg]

Finally, I got phpmailer in and working. It was done all with your help and thank you. Question: How can I send two different messages to two emails address?

[Ritzel]

omg it worked! :D
Es difícil encontrar tutoriales de esto en español ;-;

[GMCC]

ok, if composer was unable to install PHPMailer correctly by running:
C:\xampp\htdocs>composer require PHPMailer/PHPMailer and I DON'T have the autoload.php file that comes with installing using composer, how does this affect the .php file that contains the instructions for sending the email using SMTP? I was able to download the zip file from the PHPMailer github post and move the PHPMailer pkg to the htdocs/vendor/phpmailer folder however

[conradjelinger]

So doggone helpful... clear and consise. Thank you Dave.

[Skankhunt-cfuh]

Great explaination, it also worked with my contactform.
But how do i upload this to my online host to use from every mobile device for