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Create A PHP Send Email Contact Form - Using PHPMailer - Step By Step

[VIDEO]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKq1n-awLcw[/VIDEO]

Description

Hello everyone! In this video, you are going to learn step by step how to create a contact form to send an email to a specific email address using PHPMailer.

There is a web page on a website that allows users to make contact with the site owner called the contact page. The page has fields for filling in email, name, message and etc. On most websites, email and mail addresses are also included as more info. however, the contact form provides major space, convenient way for users to communicate with the site owner for this purposes.

Lets see how to do it according to this tutorial. First yo need to download the PHP mailer from github. Then extract that file and copy the file to the folder that you created in htdocs. Watch the video for more details. Then you have to do a important step In your gmail account (the gmail account that you are going to use to send emails) go to your account settings and in the security tab you can see "less secure app access ". In default it is turned off and you need to turn it on. It's important. then start the apache server on your localhost. Then start to code. In the index.php file you need to create the contact form . The code the sendEmail.php file (follow the video). I think it is not hard to follow. Hope this video will be helpful to create a contact form to send emails using your gmail account.

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All the source codes and source files and available to download from here. Use the download button or copy and paste the code from the text editors. My opinion is first try to do it by following the video line by line. It will help you t o understand all of it. After that, if your code is wrong or not working use the given source codes to compare with your code. It will help you to understand all of your mistakes.

Source Codes For Create a PHP Send Email Contact Form

Save As Index.php

Send an Email

Send an Email

Name

Email

Subject

Message

<textarea> 
			 
 
			<button type="button" onclick="sendEmail()" value="Send An Email">Submit</button> 
		</form> 
	</center> 
 
	<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script> 
	<script type="text/javascript"> 
 function sendEmail() { 
 var name = $("#name"); 
 var email = $("#email"); 
 var subject = $("#subject"); 
 var body = $("#body"); 
 
 if (isNotEmpty(name) && isNotEmpty(email) && isNotEmpty(subject) && isNotEmpty(body)) { 
 $.ajax({ 
 url: 'sendEmail.php', 
 method: 'POST', 
 dataType: 'json', 
 data: { 
 name: name.val(), 
 email: email.val(), 
 subject: subject.val(), 
 body: body.val() 
 }, success: function (response) { 
 $('#myForm')[0].reset(); 
 $('.sent-notification').text("Message Sent Successfully."); 
 } 
 }); 
 } 
 } 
 
 function isNotEmpty(caller) { 
 if (caller.val() == "") { 
 caller.css('border', '1px solid red'); 
 return false; 
 } else 
 caller.css('border', ''); 
 
 return true; 
 } 
 </script> 
 
</body> 
</html> 
 
And...., 
 
Save As sendEmail.php 
 
<?php 
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer; 
 
if(isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['email'])){ 
 $name = $_POST['name']; 
 $email = $_POST['email']; 
 $subject = $_POST['subject']; 
 $body = $_POST['body']; 
 
 require_once "PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php"; 
 require_once "PHPMailer/SMTP.php"; 
 require_once "PHPMailer/Exception.php"; 
 
 $mail = new PHPMailer(); 
 
 //smtp settings 
 $mail->isSMTP(); 
 $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; 
 $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
 $mail->Username = "youremail@gmail.com"; // !needs your attention look and edit 
 $mail->Password = 'yourpassword'; // !needs your attention look and edit 
 $mail->Port = 465; 
 $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; 
 
 //email settings 
 $mail->isHTML(true); 
 $mail->setFrom($email, $name); 
 $mail->addAddress("youremail@gmail.com"); // !needs your attention look and edit 
 $mail->Subject = ("$email ($subject)"); 
 $mail->Body = $body; 
 
 if($mail->send()){ 
 $status = "success"; 
 $response = "Email is sent!"; 
 } 
 else 
 { 
 $status = "failed"; 
 $response = "Something is wrong: " . $mail->ErrorInfo; 
 } 
 
 exit(json_encode(array("status" => $status, "response" => $response))); 
} 
 
?> 
 
ADD-ON PHPMAILER 
 
How to install phpmailer in linux 
 
 June 7, 2017 admin 0 Comments 
 
PHPMailer - A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP. Probably its the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP. The only PHP function that supports this is the mail() function. 
 
This article explains the steps to install phpmailer in linux server. 
 
 
 
For Ubuntu servers, 
 
Step1: Update the repositories 
 
#apt-get update 
 
Step2: Install phpmailer 
 
#apt-get install libphp-phpmailer 
 
 
 
For Centos servers, 
 
Step1: Download the package 
 
#wget <a href="https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/archive/master.zip" target="_blank">https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMail...ive/master.zip</a> 
 
Step2: Extract the downloaded file 
 
#unzip master 
 
Step3: Move phpmailer files to the required folder 
 
#mv PHPMailer-master /folder/ 
 
 
 
That's all....... 
 
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