This article explains a basic PHP emailer. We will start off with the HTML and then move on to the PHP.

HTML Form Code, place this in your HTML code for your page.

<form method="post" action="contact.php">
<input type="hidden" name="send" value="true" />
<br /><br />
<p>Your Name: <br />
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" />
</p>
<p>Your E-mail:<br />
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" />
</p>
<p>Your Questions/Comments:<br />
<textarea name="message" cols="40" rows="5" id="message"></textarea>
</p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>

That is a basic HTML Form with name, email, message fields, next up the PHP code. Name the PHP file "contact.php".

The first part is the configuration variables.

///////////////////////////
//Begin Configuration
///////////////////////////

// Your email
$to = "feedback@mkeefedesign.com" . ", " ;

// Email Subject
$subject = "Comment From " . "mkeefeDESIGN";

// Server name, to display in the headers
$server_name = "mkeefeDESIGN";

///////////////////////////
//End Configuration
///////////////////////////

Then we check to make sure the script should send an email, we do this by checking for a hidden value "send" in the HTML form

if (!empty($_POST['send']) || !empty($_GET['send']))
	{
	$action = (!empty($_POST['send'])) ? $_POST['send'] : $_GET['send'];
	}
else
	{
	$action = '';
	}

Assuming that the hidden value was set lets check that it had the right value "send" and build the email pieces

$build_message = false;
if($action != "")
	{
	$build_message = true;
	$message = trim($_POST['message']);
	$name = trim($_POST['name']);
	$email = trim($_POST['email']);
	$time = time();
	$date = date("F j, Y", time());
	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
	$headers .= "From: $email\r\n";
	$headers .= "X-mailer: " . $server_name . " Server\r\n";
	}

Now lets build the actual email content

if($build_message)
	{
/* message */
$message = "
Sender Name: $name\n 
Sender E-Mail: $email\n 
Date Sent: $date\n 
Message:\n----------------------------------------\n$message \n";

	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{
		$result = "<b>Thank you</b>.<br />I will get back to you very soon.<br />";
		}
	else
		{
		$result = "Sorry: An error occured, please try again later.";
		}
	}

Finally we send some sort of message to the user, to let them know whether the email was sent or not.

// Output a result Message
print $result;

Here is the code in full, enjoy.

<?
///////////////////////////
//Begin Configuration
///////////////////////////

// Your email
$to = "feedback@mkeefedesign.com" . ", " ;

// Email Subject
$subject = "Comment From " . "mkeefeDESIGN";

// Server name, to display in the headers
$server_name = "mkeefeDESIGN";

///////////////////////////
//End Configuration
///////////////////////////

if (!empty($_POST['send']) || !empty($_GET['send']))
	{
	$action = (!empty($_POST['send'])) ? $_POST['send'] : $_GET['send'];
	}
else
	{
	$action = '';
	}

$build_message = false;
if($action != "")
	{
	$build_message = true;
	$message = trim($_POST['message']);
	$name = trim($_POST['name']);
	$email = trim($_POST['email']);
	$time = time();
	$date = date("F j, Y", time());
	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
	$headers .= "From: $email\r\n";
	$headers .= "X-mailer: " . $server_name . " Server\r\n";
	}

if($build_message)
	{
/* message */
$message = "
Sender Name: $name\n 
Sender E-Mail: $email\n 
Date Sent: $date\n 
Message:\n----------------------------------------\n$message \n";

	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{
		$result = "<b>Thank you</b>.<br />I will get back to you very soon.<br />";
		}
	else
		{
		$result = "Sorry: An error occured, please try again later.";
		}
	}

// Output a result Message
print $result;
?>

That is the end of the article. I hope you have an understanding of how it all works, and now you can add contact forms to your pages.