How to create an email form that can send email using html

Solution 1:

As the others said, you can't. You can find good examples of HTML-php forms on the web, here's a very useful link that combines HTML with javascript for validation and php for sending the email.

Please check the full article (includes zip example) in the source: http://www.html-form-guide.com/contact-form/php-email-contact-form.html

HTML:

    <form method="post" name="contact_form"
    action="contact-form-handler.php">
        Your Name:
        <input type="text" name="name">
        Email Address:
        <input type="text" name="email">
        Message:
        <textarea name="message"></textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>

JS:

    <script language="JavaScript">
    var frmvalidator  = new Validator("contactform");
    frmvalidator.addValidation("name","req","Please provide your name");
    frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email");
    frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email",
      "Please enter a valid email address");
    </script>

PHP:

    <?php
    $errors = '';
    $myemail = '[email protected]';//<-----Put Your email address here.
    if(empty($_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');
    }
    ?>

Solution 2:

you can use Simple Contact Form in HTML with PHP mailer. It's easy to implement in you website.

Otherwise you can watch the demo video in following link: Youtube: Simple Contact/Feedback Form in HTML-PHP mailer

When you are running in localhost, you may get following error:

And this is the screenshot of HTML form:

And this is the main PHP coding:

<?php
if($_POST["submit"]) {
    $recipient="[email protected]"; //Enter your mail address
    $subject="Contact from Website"; //Subject 
    $sender=$_POST["name"];
    $senderEmail=$_POST["email"];
    $message=$_POST["comments"];
    $mailBody="Name: $sender\nEmail Address: $senderEmail\n\nMessage: $message";
    mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody);
    sleep(1);
    header("Location:http://blog.antonyraphel.in/sample/"); // Set here redirect page or destination page
}
?>

Solution 3:

As many answers in this thread already suggest it is not possible to send a mail from a static HTML page without using PHP or JS. I just wanted to add that there a some great solutions which will take your HTTP Post request generated by your form and create a mail from it. Those solutions are especially useful in case you do not want to add JS or PHP to your website.

Those servers basically can be configured with a mail-server which is responsible for then sending the email. The receiver, subject, body etc. is received by the server from your HTTP(S) post and then stuffed into the mail you want to send. So technically speaking it is still not possible to send mails from your HTML form but the outcome is the same.

Some of these solutions can be bought as SaaS solution or you can host them by yourself. I'll just name a few but I'm sure there are plenty in case anyone is interested in the technology or the service itself.

• https://formspark.io/
• https://mailstatic.net/ (opensource)
• https://getform.io/