How to collect 'contact-us' form (user submitted ) data?

Question

I have a 'Contact us' page on a static website. What is a good way to collect the info submitted by a user. And how to collect it?

(PS: It is convenient to send this form info to an email.)

(PPS: This is a basic static website, there is no database, I have negligible knowledge of database.)

Answer 1

Backend needed which isn't in sololearn
Heroku is good option but I haven't used ever. I have seen many codes running on it. Also, firebase .

Answer 2

There is no way to do it with a static website -- Hence the term "static". If you have the ability to create a serverside script (in PHP, since that was one of your keywords") that is fairly simple to do.

Author your contact form and set the method to be POST and the target to be your contact-us.php

With PHP your form elements will exist in a superglobal array $_POST. You can check the input, and if it's valid send the relevant contents of the form to yourself using the php mail() function.

Here's a simplified sample: https://code.sololearn.com/wbQzccpOGNHN/#php

Use all the HTML5 form validation you can to insure your form is complete prior to submission, but check in the PHP script for all the inputs you require.

Answer 3

Hi David Rolston thanks, it looks complicated, let me go through your code