Send Email With PHP from HTML Form on Submit With the Same Script

Send email with PHP from html form on submit with the same script

EDIT (#1)

If I understand correctly, you wish to have everything in one page and execute it from the same page.

You can use the following code to send mail from a single page, for example index.php or contact.php

The only difference between this one and my original answer is the <form action="" method="post"> where the action has been left blank.

It is better to use header('Location: thank_you.php'); instead of echo in the PHP handler to redirect the user to another page afterwards.

Copy the entire code below into one file.

<?php 
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    $to = "email@example.com"; // this is your Email address
    $from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
    $subject = "Form submission";
    $subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
    $message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
    $message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];

    $headers = "From:" . $from;
    $headers2 = "From:" . $to;
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
    mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
    echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
    // You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
    }
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

Original answer

I wasn't quite sure as to what the question was, but am under the impression that a copy of the message is to be sent to the person who filled in the form.

Here is a tested/working copy of an HTML form and PHP handler. This uses the PHP mail() function.

The PHP handler will also send a copy of the message to the person who filled in the form.

You can use two forward slashes // in front of a line of code if you're not going to use it.

For example: // $subject2 = "Copy of your form submission"; will not execute.

HTML FORM:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="mail_handler.php" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

PHP handler (mail_handler.php)

(Uses info from HTML form and sends the Email)

<?php 
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    $to = "email@example.com"; // this is your Email address
    $from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
    $subject = "Form submission";
    $subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
    $message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
    $message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];

    $headers = "From:" . $from;
    $headers2 = "From:" . $to;
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
    mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
    echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
    // You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
    // You cannot use header and echo together. It's one or the other.
    }
?>

To send as HTML:

If you wish to send mail as HTML and for both instances, then you will need to create two separate sets of HTML headers with different variable names.

Read the manual on mail() to learn how to send emails as HTML:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Footnotes:

In regards to HTML5

You have to specify the URL of the service that will handle the submitted data, using the action attribute.

As outlined at https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html under 4.10.1.3 Configuring a form to communicate with a server. For complete information, consult the page.

Therefore, action="" will not work in HTML5.

The proper syntax would be:

action="handler.xxx" or
action="http://www.example.com/handler.xxx".

Note that xxx will be the extension of the type of file used to handle the process. This could be a .php, .cgi, .pl, .jsp file extension etc.

Consult the following Q&A on Stack if sending mail fails:

PHP mail form doesn't complete sending e-mail

Sending email from html form using php

I have a pretty good idea why your code is not working. It happened to me a long time ago. The reason why your code is not working is because :

When you pass "from" in headers, php expects an existing email account of your

server. For example : $headers = 'From: emailacc@yourserver.com';
So first thing you gotta do is create an email account on your server. And then put the From in header to the email address that you've just created.
The From field in the $headers is not the From as you think.
<?php
$email = $_POST["InputEmail"];
$subject = $_POST["InputSubject"];
$message = "From: ".$email.", ".$_POST["InputMessage"]; // you put the email address from the input form here
$headers = 'From: emailacc@yourserver.com'; // here is the email address specified from which u want to send the email.(i.e. your server email address)
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)
?>

I'm sure this will do the job :)

I have a HTML form that uses a POST request and PHP file to send me an email automatically, but it isn't working...any advice?

This may not be the full solution, but as far as I'm aware

"New Vrify subscription: $email_address"

is not valid. Instead, concatenate them using the . operator

"New Vrify subscription:".$email_address

Do the same to the other variables you have, I had the same issue when working on the following php:

if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] ?? 'GET') == "POST") {

    $msg ="New message from mysite!\n".$_POST["message"]."\nReply Email:".$_POST["email"];

    mail("me@gmail.com", time(), $msg,"From: contact@mysite");
}

Send with phpmailer a script in php $mail-Body = $PHPorHTML;

Simple :

$htmlContent = file_get_contents("email_template.html"); // Here add location of file.
mail($htmlContent, ); // Add rest of contents that you want to send.

HTML form to send email using php on submit (Google Cloud Server)

Your server doesn't allow PHP scripts to be executed and renders it seemingly just a text. Check with your server provider how to fix this.

How do you use PHP to send form data as a message?

With GET/POST query and using tag
html forms / w3schools
for example

.html page: 
<form method="GET" action="send.php">
<input name="fieldname" type="text" placeholder="You text here...">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

send.php
<?php

if (isset($_GET['fieldname']) {
   // you code here..
}

example send email by function mail()

about mail() function on php.net

$from = 'fromemailsend@mail';
$to = 'emailtosend@mail';
$subject = 'your subject';
$message = 'your<br>message<br>in html code';
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 \r\n";
$headers .= 'To: Author <' .$to . ' >' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$author.' <'.$from.'>' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Send Email With PHP from HTML Form on Submit With the Same Script