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Eric Washington
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 21,884 PointsHTML Form that sends data to Email Address
Im not familiar with PHP but I was wondering if there was a way to send data that would come from a HTML Form to an email address without using PHP?
How should I tackle this task?
2 Answers
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsAbsolutely you can do that, and it's as simple as setting the action of the form to a mailto: address like so:
<form action="mailto:targetemail@targetdomain.com">
<!-- FORM ELEMENTS HERE -->
</form>
It's often advised against to use this method though because the user will have to have a mail client set up on their PC to deal with this link. What the link will do is open up an email that has all the data they entered.
It's best to use a server side language to deal with the data.
Eric Washington
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 21,884 PointsMarcus Parsons do the PHP courses offered by Treehouse have exercises that deal with Contact Form data sending to email address?
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsIn the Build A Simple PHP Application course, one of the stages deals with adding a contact form to the website you create. If you have trouble with the beginning of the PHP application course, you could run through the PHP Basics course first.