Sending a Form

[TheHolyMessiah]

I know this has been asked many times, but I could never find a straight answer. I wanted to know how to send a Form of information to my e-mail using PHP. For example I would use textfields in a form to hold inforamtion like there name, e-mail, birth date, etc. How would I send that information to my e-mail address using php?

PS: I'm using dreamweaver, if that helps any.

Thanks,
TheHolyHessiah

[lintz]

//get values from submitted form
$name = $_POST['txtname'];
$email = $_POST['txtemail'];
//etc....

//content of email message
$message = $name . " submitted your form with an email address of " .$email;
//Send email
mail("[email protected]","Form Details",$message); 

[TheHolyMessiah]

how could that work if you don't have to enter a password or go through SMTP?

[john tindell]

PHP has build in support for sending emails thought SMTP. So you don't need to enter a password or use sockets. For more info about using the mail command check this out http://uk2.php.net/mail

[TheHolyMessiah]

I'm a little new at PHP, the only complex thing I know is MySQL.

Thanks,
TheHolyMessiah

[usamaalam]

To email the html form use frontpage extensions. In this way, you need not write any server side code and the whole form with well formatted data will be emailed where you want.

Another way is to use server side PHP script. I have a PHP file (I downloaded it somewhere), if you post any of your form to that file, regardless of any number of fields you have, it will email you the entire data of the form. Let me know if you need it.

Thanks.

[john tindell]

To email the html form use frontpage extensions. In this way, you need not write any server side code and the whole form with well formatted data will be emailed where you want.

This is only good if you are on windows hosting, but if you want more freedom from your script you really need to write your own scripts.

[usamaalam]

I just implemented frontpage extensions on linux hosting.

[john tindell]

I stand corrected, though have had nothing but grief when trying to use Frontpage Extensions.

[usamaalam]

I don't know much about PHP hosting, I'm new to PHP, but I'm using 1and1 hosting on linux server and it has frontpage extensions. I implemented it yesterday and everything is working fine.