[Tutorial] php form mail script.

[Handyman]

If you have searched for php form mail scripts, you probably have noticed the lack thereof.
Most are usually CGI, Perl or some other chaotic programming language

So here is my php version that works with any form as long as you have a few certain things in place? which hopefully I will explain well enough for anybody to understand.

HTML
First, in your html form? make sure the form tag looks something like this:

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<form action="./formmail.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="post">

make sure to change ./formmail.php to the path to the php form mail script.

Then your form can be any way you like it? until the end.
Here is how the end of the form works.

Change abc to code setup for recipient in formmail.php.

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<input type="hidden" name="rcp" value="abc" />

Change abc to code setup for tld in formmail.php

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<input type="hidden" name="tld" value="abc" />

Change "this page" to the name of the page this is submitted from? for your reference.

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<input type="hidden" name="location" value="this page" />

Change "my subject" to the subject you want the email to say when it reaches your inbox

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<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="my subject" />

Change ./thanks.php to a page you have setup to display a successful submission message

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<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="./thanks.php" />

Only change the value to whatever you want displayed on the submit button.

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<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

Now that you have your html form in place? time for the php to take over.

I'm attaching formmail.php
Please note the 2 areas that need to be edited for this to work:
$recipient_array and $domain_array

formmail.php.zip

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Let me know if this helps or needs to be clarified.
Enjoy!

As always, if you use this, please either link back to startrekguide.com or donate to startrekguide.

[topdown]

I'll give you two thumbs up bud.

You are very correct that php mail scripts are hard to come by.
I did a lot of searching to find the one that I use and after reading your layout and code seems to be very similar.

Anyway, excellent tut.

[JIGzZ]

very useful for newbie
thank you Sir ...

[poppertom69]

Yeah i had to make my own mailing script for a mailing list for an estate agent to show all there new properties that week, I find it much better using your own know where it goes wrong then!

[Tempus1]

Not bad but fairly small and lacking a bit more explanation and funtionality in my opinion.

I wrote one on my forum as I had some people asking about forms. You can read it here - [link removed]

There is also an additional tutorial that explains how to stop spam mail, make forms secure etc. You can find it here - [link removed]

Let me know what you think. Register and vote on the Poll.

[Obsidian]

For future reference, using something like this is a lot more powerful: http://swiftmailer.org/

[Dragosvr92 Radulescu Dragos]

How do you add this to phpbb?
i know how to add a extra page to phpbb but im not sure if im allowed to use php in the php file and load it in the themplate O-o