Are there any helpful php form mail tutorials or php alternatives

Asked May 13 '15 at 19:03

Active May 19 '15 at 04:27

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I am new to web development and php. I created a php script to use for my contact form on my webpage. The webpage is published and live but when filling out the contact form that the php is linked to I am not receiving the email.

When I click the submit button i am taken to a 404 page although my contact form is linked to a php script that I am not sure if I configured correctly. After submission the user should be directed to a thank you page

The information I need emailed is very simple is there a simpler way to receive the information from the contact form to my email, because I was not able to get the php script or the contact form to work properly?

<form action="contactform.php" method="post" id="contactform">
    <p>  <input type="Name" required placeholder="Name"> </p>
    <p>  <input type="email" required form="contactform" placeholder="Email"> </p>
    <p>  <input type="tel" required placeholder="Telephone"> </p>
    <p>  <textarea required class="comments" placeholder="Comments"></textarea> </p>
    <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="submit"></p>
</form>

edited May 19 '15 at 04:27

asked May 13 '15 at 19:03

Jalen

where is php? i didn't see it? – Alive to die - Anant May 13 '15 at 19:04
I was unable to attach the full code. I've edited the question and added a portion of the code – Jalen May 13 '15 at 19:10
none of your input contains name attribute so how's you get values in$_POST – Alive to die - Anant May 13 '15 at 19:12
Im not sure what you mean? What should go there instead? – Jalen May 13 '15 at 19:19
@Jalen - for you to send information from a form to a PHP script, you need to give the inputs a name attribute, and yours don't have this. It should be something like `` - the `name=` part gives the name that you can use to access it, in this case, `$_POST['name']` – andrewsi May 13 '15 at 19:36
Okay I see what you mean. I have added names to all the input fields – Jalen May 14 '15 at 02:55
I am still not receiving the information though – Jalen May 14 '15 at 05:04

Are there any helpful php form mail tutorials or php alternatives

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