Posting Input in textbox to email?

Question

I'm trying to build a simple sign up form where a person enters their email and submits.

This input is then emailed to the owner of the site, I thought the code below would work however it isnt?

<form id="signup-form" method="post" action="mailto:email@server.co.uk">
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Email Address">
    <input type="submit" value="Sign Up">
</form>

This is just [tag:html] - you need a script to actually send the mail and complete the detalis. The easiest way I know of is using [tag:php] but each to their own... Basically this just _shows_ the form, you need the code that actually tells the server what to do _after_ the person presses the "submit" button — SierraOscar, Sep 01 '15 at 11:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

You have only created the HTML file. HTML file never interacts with server. To send mail either you have to use Javascript of PHP.

PHP Code to send email:

    <?php
   $to      = 'nobody@example.com';
   $subject = 'the subject';
   $message = 'hello';
   $headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
     'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

   mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
    ?>

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Posting Input in textbox to email?

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