Welcome back to our contact form tutorial series. If you’re not exactly sure why I’m saying “back”, check this link. This is the third episode and in this tutorial we’re gonna learn how to add different types of inputs to the contact form and process that with PHP. It’ll make your contact form look absolutely gem and the features allow you to obtain some extra info from the user. So, you totally need to know how to do that.
If you followed my two previous contact form tutorials you should have 2 files: contact-form.html and send-mail.php. If not, then you can download them here. Now just open them with your favorite html/php editor. (more…)
Tag: contact form
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How to Create an HTML/PHP Contact Form – Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Dropdown Menus
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How to Create an HTML/PHP Contact Form – Processing Form Data with PHP
In the previous tutorial – creating HTML PHP contact form – we successfully created a basic layout for the contact form. By the way, I’ve also added 2 screencasts to the post for those of you guys who really prefer video content to textual. So, if you wish to watch instead of read, you can do it. In other words you can choose now which way to go. Alternatively, you can both watch and read (or the other way around) just for better understanding. By the way, I’d really appreciate if you subscribe to our YouTube channel and like our videos. 🙂 Now let’s make our contact form actually do something. First off, it’s a good idea to understand how it works.
Under the hood
So, what happens after a user hits the “Submit” button of our contact form?
1)Let’s go step-by-step. The user fills in the form and hits the button: (more…)