Send email from HTML form

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<?php 
$errors = '';
$myemail = 'my@email.com';//<-----Put Your email address here.
if(empty($_POST['name'])  || 
   empty($_POST['email']) || 
   empty($_POST['message']))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
}

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$email_address = $_POST['email']; 
$message = $_POST['message']; 

if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i", 
$email_address))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}

if( empty($errors))
{
    $to = $myemail; 
    $email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
    $email_body = "You have received a new message. ".
    " Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message"; 

    $headers = "From: $myemail\n"; 
    $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

    mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
    //redirect to the 'thank you' page
    header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
} 
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
<html>
<head>
    <title>Contact form handler</title>
</head>

<body>
<!-- This page is displayed only if there is some error -->
<?php
echo nl2br($errors);
?>


</body>
</html>

This is my PHP File which is I am using to send an email please check this. The Following is the HTML Code.

I have tried on server also it gives me error that "all fields are required" Basically, variables are not getting any data from the HTML form.

<form action="email.php" method="post" name="contact_form" enctype="text/plain">
  <div class="form-group" >
    <label for="name">Name</label>
    <input class="form-control" type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Full Name" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%">

    <label for="email">Email address</label>
    <input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" aria-describedby="emailHelp" placeholder="Enter email" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%">

    <label for="message">Message</label>
    <textarea class="form-control" rows="5" name="message" id="message" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%"></textarea>

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default" style="border-radius: 0px; background-color: midnightblue; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #888888; color: white;">Submit</button>
  </div>
</form>

Most like invalid enctype? See this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7628249/method-post-enctype-text-plain-are-not-compatible — Antony Thompson, Nov 17 '16 at 03:45
so instead of text/plain what should i use ? @AntonyThompson — Akshat Shah, Nov 17 '16 at 03:52
Soooooooooo many questions have been made on Stackoverflow about this, did you even bother to search? — Xorifelse, Nov 17 '16 at 03:53
@AkshatShah The answer in the link i gave tells you :P. It's `multipart/form-data` — Antony Thompson, Nov 17 '16 at 03:54
@AkshatShah Better yet, just remove the enctype from the form element. It will default to the correct one. The only time you really need to set it is for file uploads — Antony Thompson, Nov 17 '16 at 03:55
Also, its better to use [`filter_var()`](https://www.google.nl/search?q=filter_var+email+in+php&oq=filter_var+email+in+php) to validate email addresses — Xorifelse, Nov 17 '16 at 03:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 04:16

I have removed enctype from your Form. Also write script in same page. Try with this code (Save this script as index.php):

<?php
if (isset($_POST['send_email'])) {
    $errors = '';
    $myemail = 'my@email.com'; //<-----Put Your email address here.
    if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['message'])) {
        $errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
    }
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email_address = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    if (!preg_match("/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i", $email_address)) {
        $errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
    }
    if (empty($errors)) {
        $to = $myemail;
        $email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
        $email_body = "You have received a new message. " .
            " Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message";
        $headers = "From: $myemail\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
        if (mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body, $headers)) {
            echo 'mail sent';
        } else {
            echo 'mail not sent';
        }
    }
}
?>
<form action="index.php" method="post" name="contact_form">
<div class="form-group" >
    <label for="name">Name</label>
    <input class="form-control" type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Full Name" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%">
    <label for="email">Email address</label>
    <input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" aria-describedby="emailHelp" placeholder="Enter email" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%">
    <label for="message">Message</label>
    <textarea class="form-control" rows="5" name="message" id="message" style="border-radius: 0px; margin-bottom: 3%"></textarea>
    <button type="submit" name="send_email" class="btn btn-default" style="border-radius: 0px; background-color: midnightblue; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #888888; color: white;">Submit</button>
</div>

I thinks your code is vulnerable to header injection. – Razib Al Mamun Nov 17 '16 at 05:05 — Razib Al Mamun, Nov 17 '16 at 05:05
@RazibAlMamun, yes i know i just edited Akshat code. – Rizban Ahmad Nov 17 '16 at 05:59 — Rizban Ahmad, Nov 17 '16 at 05:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 06:59

0

Please remove in form tage enctype="text/plain"

answered Nov 17 '16 at 06:59

sunny bhadania

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Send email from HTML form

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