How do I make the contact form submit and send to my email address?

Question

I am about to finish my first project and I have a contact form in html and css and I need the message a person writes to me to be sent to my email address.

Answer 1

Hi Caitlyn,
You can use the action to call out a external file after submition.

<form action="external file to execute after submit" method="post" >
<input />
<input required/>
<input />
</form>

this will do a action when the user inputs their info and submits it, the input can be mailed to you

U can use PHP to send mail() after the user submitted the form

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mail_mail.asp

I hope this will help you to complete your project.

Answer 2

Great thanks I'll have a look at that

Answer 3

Caitlyn, if you dont fully understand form handling here is a great explaination to it.

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp

Answer 4

Vincent Berger thank you