[boomboom]

Can anyone help me or direct me to any tutorials about adding an form to email to my site. I tried adding a form to email that gets the name, email and the message of the user and then sends it to my email but its not working, it says HTTP Error 403 Forbidden. Is form to email not supported in free hosting? Someone enlighten me here, not really good at this kind of stuff but I just want to have personal site.

[diesler]

You can get one from this website, which is easy to use.

1) Download BELLonline-mailer.zip
2) Extract the .zip file to your computer
3) Open config.php and change "changeme@example.com" to your own email adres.
4) Upload BELLmailer.php and config.php to the root of your website.
4) Type the adres in your browser http://<your domain>/BELLmailer.php

This should work.....

if you want to show the form on another page (must be a .php page) add the code <?php include "BELLmailer.php"; ?> to it.

leave me a note if you got any problems with it.

[bigal]

I wrote a small form to do what you wanted, with comments explaining the code.
This is a very simple form, and does not do any validation on input fields.
Note that depending on what you enter in as SENDEMAIL, it could end up as SPAM email in your SPAM or JUNK mail folder.

PHP Code:

<?php
define('RECIPIENTEMAIL','test@gmail.com');  // define your email (Recipient) here.
define('SENDEREMAIL','NoReply@gmail.com'); // define Senderemail here (Shows as Sender's email)
if (isset($_POST['submit']) ){ // check if submit button is clicked
  $name = 'From: '.$_POST['name']."\r\n"; // name valaue in email body as first line.
  $email = 'Email: '.$_POST['email']."\r\n"; // email value in email body as second line.
  $body = $name.$email.$_POST['message']; // body first line, second line plus message
  $subject = 'Web Message'; // shows as subject in email
  $to = RECIPIENTEMAIL; 
  $header = 'From: '.SENDEREMAIL."\r\n";
  if (@mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)){ // PHP mail function to send email.
    echo '<b>Message send succeed</b><br />';
  }else{
    echo '<b>Message send failed</b><br />';
  }
}
// a form to collect user name, email and message
echo '<table><form action="'.$_SERVER[PHP_SELF].'" method="post">
<tr><td><label>Name</label></td><td><input type="text" name="name"></td></tr>
<tr><td><label>Email</label></td><td><input type="text" name="email"></td></tr>
</table>';
echo '<table>
<tr><td><label>Message</label></tr>
<tr><td><textarea name="message" cols=50 rows=8></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message"></td></tr></table>
</form>'; 
?>

[boomboom]

Originally Posted by diesler

You can get one from this website, which is easy to use.

1) Download BELLonline-mailer.zip
2) Extract the .zip file to your computer
3) Open config.php and change "changeme@example.com" to your own email adres.
4) Upload BELLmailer.php and config.php to the root of your website.
4) Type the adres in your browser http://<your domain>/BELLmailer.php

This should work.....

if you want to show the form on another page (must be a .php page) add the code <?php include "BELLmailer.php"; ?> to it.

leave me a note if you got any problems with it.

This means the page must be in php right? I already have the forms ready, but it is in html format.

[boomboom]

To bigal,
thanks for writing the code, how can i make it work? Should I just save it as contact.php and save it at the root folder? what if I already have an existing html page?

[bigal]

Yes, you can name it contact.php and call it.
You better test it first to see if it works for you, then modify the script to suit your needs

[wren99]

What does "echo" mean? Why does it precede the html form?
(Sorry, I don't know anything about php yet).

Originally Posted by bigal

I wrote a small form to do what you wanted, with comments explaining the code.
This is a very simple form, and does not do any validation on input fields.
Note that depending on what you enter in as SENDEMAIL, it could end up as SPAM email in your SPAM or JUNK mail folder.

PHP Code:

<?php
define('RECIPIENTEMAIL','test@gmail.com');  // define your email (Recipient) here.
define('SENDEREMAIL','NoReply@gmail.com'); // define Senderemail here (Shows as Sender's email)
if (isset($_POST['submit']) ){ // check if submit button is clicked
  $name = 'From: '.$_POST['name']."\r\n"; // name valaue in email body as first line.
  $email = 'Email: '.$_POST['email']."\r\n"; // email value in email body as second line.
  $body = $name.$email.$_POST['message']; // body first line, second line plus message
  $subject = 'Web Message'; // shows as subject in email
  $to = RECIPIENTEMAIL; 
  $header = 'From: '.SENDEREMAIL."\r\n";
  if (@mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)){ // PHP mail function to send email.
    echo '<b>Message send succeed</b><br />';
  }else{
    echo '<b>Message send failed</b><br />';
  }
}
// a form to collect user name, email and message
echo '<table><form action="'.$_SERVER[PHP_SELF].'" method="post">
<tr><td><label>Name</label></td><td><input type="text" name="name"></td></tr>
<tr><td><label>Email</label></td><td><input type="text" name="email"></td></tr>
</table>';
echo '<table>
<tr><td><label>Message</label></tr>
<tr><td><textarea name="message" cols=50 rows=8></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message"></td></tr></table>
</form>'; 
?>

[bigal]

'echo' is the print display command in php. If you want to leave 'echo' out you put html codes outside of the <?php ?> tag

[wren99]

Do you know a way to use your php, but to avoid spam (i.e. add some sort of spam protection)?

[bigal]

Add a captcha. Request for a security code, then match the code.

gdimage.php - this will create 4 image codes. you can amend to have different length
in $random_text = substr(md5(uniqid()),0,4);

PHP Code:

<?php  
session_start(); 
header("Content-type: image/png");  
$im = @imagecreate(80, 20)  
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");  
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);  
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);  
$random_text = substr(md5(uniqid()),0,4); 
imagestring($im, 5, 5, 5,  $random_text, $text_color);  
imagepng($im);  
$_SESSION['verify'] = $random_text; 
?>

contact.php -- uses session to remember random text generated by gdimage.

PHP Code:

<?php 
session_start(); 
define('RECIPIENTEMAIL','test@gmail.com');  // define your email (Recipient) here. 
define('SENDEREMAIL','NoReply@gmail.com'); // define Senderemail here (Shows as Sender's email) 
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){ // check if submit button is clicked
  if ($_SESSION['verify'] == $_POST['security_code']){
    $name = 'From: '.$_POST['name']."\r\n"; // name valaue in email body as first line. 
    $email = 'Email: '.$_POST['email']."\r\n"; // email value in email body as second line. 
    $body = $name.$email.$_POST['message']; // body first line, second line plus message 
    $subject = 'Web Message'; // shows as subject in email 
    $to = RECIPIENTEMAIL;  
    $header = 'From: '.SENDEREMAIL."\r\n"; 
    if (@mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)){ // PHP mail function to send email. 
      echo '<b>Message send succeed</b><br />'; 
      unset( $_SESSION['verify'] ); 
    }else{ 
      echo '<b>Message send failed</b><br />'; 
      unset( $_SESSION['verify'] ); 
    } 
  }else{  // if not sercity code
    echo '<font color="red"> Sorry, email can not continue..<br />  
        You have provided an invalid security code</font><br />'; 
  }
}
// a form to collect user name, email and message 
echo '<table><form action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="post"> 
<tr><td><label>Name</label></td><td><input type="text" name="name"></td></tr> 
<tr><td><label>Email</label></td><td><input type="text" name="email"></td></tr> 
</table>'; 
echo '<table> 
<tr><td><label>Message</label></tr> 
<tr><td><textarea name="message" cols=50 rows=8></textarea></td></tr> 
</table>
<table>
<tr><td>Security Code</td><td><img src="gdimage.php" /></td></tr> 
<tr><td>Enter Security Code</td><td><input name="security_code" type="text" size="8" /> 
<tr><td align="right"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message"></td></tr></table> 
</form>';  
?>