Contact Us Form in PHP

Introduction

In this article I show how to create a "Contact Us" form in PHP. This form is very simple and anyone can use this to help understand PHP. You can edit and add fields. You will first create a HTML file for the Contact Us form design. In the form field you will set the action for your PHP file.

Example

This is your HTML file:

<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Form</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#CED2B9">
<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Contact Form</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="send.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td>
<input name="email" type="text" id="customer_mail" size="20">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>:</td>
<td>
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="20">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="16%">Subject</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%">
<input name="sub" type="text" id="subject" size="24">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Detail</td>
<td>:</td>
<td>
<textarea name="msg" cols="20" rows="4" id="detail"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

In the PHP file I use the mail() function to send the contact information but this function does not work for the local host. You can see that I have described below how to sendi the contact. I will create a PHP file for data submission.

<?php
$subject = $_POST['sub'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$from = $_POST['email'];
$detail = $_POST['msg'];
$subject ="$subject";
$message="$detail";
$mail_from="$from";
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";
$to ='[email protected]';
//form validation with PHP code
if($name != "" && $from != "" && $subject != "" && $message != "")
{
mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
}
else
{
echo "Please fill in all fields and submit again!";
}
?>

When you submit a blank field, this error is generated:

Contact Us Form in PHP

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