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Posted by Juan Luna
Juan Luna
11,483 Points

Question about a simple form

Hi, I'm doing my portfolio in html /css and I'm doing a form where people can send me and email

http://i.imgur.com/WPrDWEZ.png

When a person clicks in the submit button an email is going to be sent to my gmail account but I don't know how to do that, any suggestions? (I think it is php but I don't know anything about that)

Thanks :)

3 Answers

Juan Luna
Juan Luna
11,483 Points

Well, thanks for the answer but that seems pretty hard for what I want to do.

Joseph Gennitti
Joseph Gennitti
16,870 Points
Joseph Gennitti
Joseph Gennitti
16,870 Points

You have to use php to send your email. Check this video out its not that hard. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_zy_utoFM

But first you need to have your contact form on a web server for it to work. But just follow what this guy does and you will get it working. Its pretty simple to follow.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Forms are quite complicated, even simple ones.

There are courses on here that show use to use the PHP Mailer library to do this.

The library itself is found here: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Don't forget about proper validation