Send email with PHP from html form on submit with the same script

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I want to send an email with PHP when a user has finished filling in an HTML form and then emailing information from the form  I want to do it from the same script that displays the web page that has the form   I found this code  but the mail does not send    lt  php   if  isset   POST  submit            to     POST  email          subject     POST  name         message   getRequestURI         from    zenphoto example com        headers    From      from       if  mail  to   subject   message   headers             echo  Mail Sent              else           echo  failed              gt    What is the code to send an email in PHP

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PHP script to connect to a SMTP server and send email on Windows 7

Sending an email from PHP in Windows is a bit of a minefield with gotchas and head scratching. I'll try to walk you through one instance where I got it to work on Windows 7 and PHP 5.2.3 under (IIS) Internet Information Services webserver.

I'm assuming you don't want to use any pre-built framework like CodeIgniter or Symfony which contains email sending capability. We'll be sending an email from a standalone PHP file. I acquired this code from under the codeigniter hood (under system/libraries) and modified it so you can just drop in this Email.php file and it should just work.

This should work with newer versions of PHP. But you never know.

Step 1, You need a username/password with an SMTP server:

I'm using the smtp server from smtp.ihostexchange.net which is already created and setup for me. If you don't have this you can't proceed. You should be able to use an email client like thunderbird, evolution, Microsoft Outlook, to specify your smtp server and then be able to send emails through there.

Step 2, Create your Hello World Email file:

I'm assuming you are using IIS. So create a file called index.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot and put this code in there:

<?php

  include("Email.php");

  $c = new CI_Email();

  $c->from("[email protected]");
  $c->to("[email protected]");
  $c->subject("Celestial Temple");
  $c->message("Dominion reinforcements on the way.");
  $c->send();
  echo "done";
?>

You should be able to visit this index.php by navigating to localhost/index.php in a browser, it will spew errors because Email.php is missing. But make sure you can at least run it from the browser.

Step 3, Create a file called Email.php:

Create a new file called Email.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot.

Copy/paste this PHP code into Email.php:

https://github.com/sentientmachine/standalone_php_script_send_email/blob/master/Email.php

Since there are many kinds of smtp servers, you will have to manually fiddle with the settings at the top of Email.php. I've set it up so it automatically works with smtp.ihostexchange.net, but your smtp server might be different.

For example:

Set the smtp_port setting to the port of your smtp server.
Set the smtp_crypto setting to what your smtp server needs.
Set the $newline and $crlf so it's compatible with what your smtp server uses. If you pick wrong, the smtp server may ignore your request without error. I use \r\n, for you maybe \n is required.

The linked code is too long to paste as a stackoverflow answer, If you want to edit it, leave a comment in here or through github and I'll change it.

Step 4, make sure your php.ini has ssl extension enabled:

Find your PHP.ini file and uncomment the

;extension=php_openssl.dll

So it looks like:

extension=php_openssl.dll

Step 5, Run the index.php file you just made in a browser:

You should get the following output:

220 smtp.ihostexchange.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at 
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:43:58 -0400 250 2.6.0 
<[email protected]> Queued mail for delivery 
lang:email_sent

done

Step 6, check your email, and spam folder:

Visit the email account for [email protected] and you should have received an email. It should arrive within 5 or 10 seconds. If you does not, inspect the errors returned on the page. If that doesn't work, try mashing your face on the keyboard on google while chanting: "working at the grocery store isn't so bad."

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You can also use mandrill app to send the mail in php  You will get the API from https   mandrillapp com api docs index php html where you can find the complete details about emails sended and other details

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Here are the PHP mail settings I use     Mail sending function  subject     POST  name     to     POST  email     from    zenphoto example com      data  msg    Your MSG  lt br gt  n             Headers  headers     MIME-Version  1 0 r n    headers     Content-type  text html  charset UTF-8 r n    headers     From   lt    from    gt      mail  to  subject  msg  headers   echo  Mail Sent

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If you haven t already  look at your php ini and make sure the parameters under the  mail function  setting are set correctly to activate the email service   After you can use PHPMailer library and follow the instructions

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EDIT   1   If I understand correctly  you wish to have everything in one page and execute it from the same page   You can use the following code to send mail from a single page  for example index php or contact php   The only difference between this one and my original answer is the  lt form action    method  post  gt  where the action has been left blank   It is better to use header  Location  thank you php    instead of echo in the PHP handler to redirect the user to another page afterwards   Copy the entire code below into one file    lt  php  if isset   POST  submit           to    email example com      this is your Email address      from     POST  email       this is the sender s Email address      first name     POST  first name         last name     POST  last name         subject    Form submission        subject2    Copy of your form submission        message    first name          last name     wrote the following       n n      POST  message         message2    Here is a copy of your message      first name     n n      POST  message          headers    From      from       headers2    From      to      mail  to  subject  message  headers       mail  from  subject2  message2  headers2      sends a copy of the message to the sender     echo  Mail Sent  Thank you      first name      we will contact you shortly           You can also use header  Location  thank you php    to redirect to another page          gt    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt head gt   lt title gt Form submission lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt    lt form action    method  post  gt  First Name   lt input type  text  name  first name  gt  lt br gt  Last Name   lt input type  text  name  last name  gt  lt br gt  Email   lt input type  text  name  email  gt  lt br gt  Message  lt br gt  lt textarea rows  5  name  message  cols  30  gt  lt  textarea gt  lt br gt   lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit  gt   lt  form gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt       Original answer    I wasn t quite sure as to what the question was  but am under the impression that a copy of the message is to be sent to the person who filled in the form   Here is a tested working copy of an HTML form and PHP handler  This uses the PHP mail   function   The PHP handler will also send a copy of the message to the person who filled in the form   You can use two forward slashes    in front of a line of code if you re not going to use it   For example      subject2    Copy of your form submission   will not execute   HTML FORM    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt head gt   lt title gt Form submission lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt    lt form action  mail handler php  method  post  gt  First Name   lt input type  text  name  first name  gt  lt br gt  Last Name   lt input type  text  name  last name  gt  lt br gt  Email   lt input type  text  name  email  gt  lt br gt  Message  lt br gt  lt textarea rows  5  name  message  cols  30  gt  lt  textarea gt  lt br gt   lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit  gt   lt  form gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt      PHP handler  mail handler php    Uses info from HTML form and sends the Email    lt  php  if isset   POST  submit           to    email example com      this is your Email address      from     POST  email       this is the sender s Email address      first name     POST  first name         last name     POST  last name         subject    Form submission        subject2    Copy of your form submission        message    first name          last name     wrote the following       n n      POST  message         message2    Here is a copy of your message      first name     n n      POST  message          headers    From      from       headers2    From      to      mail  to  subject  message  headers       mail  from  subject2  message2  headers2      sends a copy of the message to the sender     echo  Mail Sent  Thank you      first name      we will contact you shortly           You can also use header  Location  thank you php    to redirect to another page         You cannot use header and echo together  It s one or the other          gt      To send as HTML   If you wish to send mail as HTML and for both instances  then you will need to create two separate sets of HTML headers with different variable names   Read the manual on mail   to learn how to send emails as HTML    http   php net manual en function mail php     Footnotes    In regards to HTML5   You have to specify the URL of the service that will handle the submitted data  using the action attribute   As outlined at https   www w3 org TR html5 forms html under 4 10 1 3 Configuring a form to communicate with a server  For complete information  consult the page   Therefore  action    will not work in HTML5   The proper syntax would be    action  handler xxx  or  action  http   www example com handler xxx     Note that xxx will be the extension of the type of file used to handle the process  This could be a  php   cgi   pl   jsp file extension etc     Consult the following Q amp A on Stack if sending mail fails     PHP mail form doesn  39 t complete sending e-mail

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You need to add an action into your form like   lt form name  form1  method  post  action   lt  php echo   SERVER  PHP SELF      gt       lt  -- All your input for the form here -- gt   lt  form gt   Then put your snippet at the top of the document en send the mail  What echo   SERVER  PHP SELF     does is that it sends your information to the top of your script so you could use it

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You need a SMPT Server in order for       mail  to  subject  message  headers     to work   You could try light weight SMTP servers like xmailer

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I think one error in the original code might have been that it had    message   echo getRequestURI      instead of    message   getRequestURI       The code has since been edited though

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