I have a website built in PHP and I would like to create my own forms that get sent to my email address. I am very new to PHP and html. I just searched the web on this topic but all the html/php codes/script that I found, didn't work. I would love to create my own forms instead of paying a service to do this for me. Does anyone know which code/script I should use to make this happen? Thanks.

HTML for the form and PHP for the data collection and emailing.

http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/forms.php

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/postget.php

http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/8.html

Thank you for your reply. I just tried creating a form using the tutorial of http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/forms.php. However when I click 'submit', the form opens up a blank email form. Per their instructions, I have included the following script to my site:

<form method="post" action="mailto:Mark@StrongFamilies.us">
Name: <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="40" name="name"> <br />
Password: <input type="password" size="10"
maxlength="10" name="password"><br />

<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Do you know what I am doing wrong? I plan to email them regarding this issue as well. Thanks.

I also just attempted to create a form on my PHP site using the code/script found on http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/8.html. However, when publishing that page, I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/content/s/t/r/strongfamilies/html/onsite-request1.php on line 169

The code that I placed on my site is:

<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>

<?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 ='Mark@StrongFamilies.us';

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

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

I just emailed them as well regarding this issue. Do you happen to know what I did wrong? Thanks.

That's because you need to look at the next two tutorials on how to collect the data and then email it.

in the second part of the question you are missing the end delimiter from the PHP code.

And which is line 169?

Chris, thanks again for your response. I am a novice at web design at best!! I read over http://www.tizag.com/phpT/postget.php around 3 times and I cannot figure out how to integrate it within the original script. Regarding the missing php code on line 169, I don't really know what this means. Can you please break this down for me and what code do I need? Thanks.

The PHP section of code should have a ?> as a closing tag

So

PHP Code:

}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>