Simple PHP Contact Form Tutorial

When you need that user contact with you or send feedback to you via email then you have to need make a contact form. In this tutorial you will learn that how to create form with php script.

Overview

In this tutorial create 2 files 1. contact.php and 2. send_contact.php

Step
1. Create file contact.php.
2. Create file send_contact.php.

Step1:

Create file contact.php

View In Browser

|---|--------------------- code --------------------|---|

{code type=codetype}

<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_contact.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="16%">Subject</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%"><input name="subject" type="text"
id="subject" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Detail</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4"
id="detail"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" id="name"
size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="customer_mail" type="text"
id="customer_mail" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

{/code}

Step2:

Create file send_contact.php

|---|--------------------- code --------------------|---|
{code type=codetype}

<?php
// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from:
$name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='someone@somewhere.com';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
"We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

{/code}