Styjun

I am creating a website for my church choir in HTML. I have a "contact us" page written in HTML. It has a form for the user to send the choir director an email from the website. I am aware that I have to write the email in php in order for the email to send. Do I need to duplicate the html file and rewrite it in PHP?

<form name="Send-mail" action="mailto:email@email.com" method="post">
 <label>Name:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="name" type="text"/>
 <label>Email:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="email" type="text"/>
 <label>Subject:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="subject" type="text"/>`enter code here`
 <label>Message:</label>
 <text-area type="text" name="message"></text-area>
 <input class="centered" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send email"/> 
 </form>

I need the server to send the email from the website to the email of our choir director.

You would need to create the PHP file where there is an email sending logic,eg: sendEmail.php. The form tag would change to:

<form name="Send-mail" action="sendEmail.php" method="post">

Below is how you can send the mail in php from form inputs.

 <form action="mail.php" method="post">
 <label>Name:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="name" type="text"/>
 <label>Email:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="email" type="text"/>
 <label>Subject:</label>
 <input class="nice" name="subject" type="text"/>`enter code here`
 <label>Message:</label>
 <text-area type="text" name="message"></text-area>
 <input class="centered" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send email"/> 
 </form>

You will have to name your php file mail.php like in case below

mail.php

<?php
 $to = $_POST['email'];
 $subject = $_POST['subject'];
 $sender = $_POST['name'];

 $message = $_POST['message'];
 $message .= "<h1>This is Message from $sender.</h1>";

 $header = "From:senderemail@somedomain.com rn";
 $header .= "Cc:senderemail@somedomain.com rn";
 $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
 $header .= "Content-type: text/htmlrn";

 $retval = mail ($to,$subject,$message,$header);

 if( $retval == true ) 
 echo "Message sent successfully...";
 else 
 echo "Message could not be sent...";
 
 ?>

You will need to ensure that email for this line of code is correctly set.

$header = "From:senderemail@somedomain.com rn";
 $header .= "Cc:senderemail@somedomain.com rn";

In otherword, if your site email is support@hey.com
Try Replacing it snderemail@somedomain and it will work. You can also try the replacement with some other emails like good working gmail and let me know what happen. Thanks