PHP-based Form Mail (Feedback) Script Print

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Using a PHP script, you may like to add contact us form for feedbacks on your website and get the results emailed to you.

For our customers using our Linux hosting service @ ITKarobar.Asia, the sample script is given below so that you can tweak it a bit to suit your requirements.

You would need to change the email address in the field $from to any email address on the domain name (same hosted website) on which you are incorporating this script.

Example:

If your domain name is yourdomain.com, then you would define the From email address as any-name@yourdomain.com.

This email address need not be existing on the mail server of yourdomain.com; however, the domain name in the $from field has to be yours.

You may also use an email address such as Do_Not_reply@yourdomain.com.

The value in the $mailto field needs to be changed to the email address, where the email containing the data submitted through the form needs to be delivered.

Once the visitor provides feedback, he/she can then be re-directed to another page on your website. In order to achieve this, you need to mention the path to the HTML file in the $file field in the script. Alternatively, you can display a message to the visitor thanking him/her for the feedback. Such messages can be displayed in a new page like thanks.htm. Such a page can also contain other information as deemed necessary.

Sample Script

   <?

        $mailto="xyz@yourdomain.com";
        $file="thanks.htm";
        $pcount=0;
        $gcount=0;
        $subject = "Mail from Enquiry Form";

        $from="some-name@yourdomain.com";
        while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST))
        {
        $pstr = $pstr."$key : $val \n ";
        ++$pcount;

        }
        while (list($key,$val)=each($_GET))
        {
        $gstr = $gstr."$key : $val \n ";
        ++$gcount;

        }
        if ($pcount > $gcount)
        {
        $message_body=$pstr;
        mail($mailto,$subject,$message_body,"From:".$from);

        include("$file");
        }
        else
        {
        $message_body=$gstr;

        mail($mailto,$subject,$message_body,"From:".$from);
        include("$file");
        }
        ?>

Note

In an attempt to keep a check on abuse from our Hosting Servers, the following conditions have been set for mail scripts to work on the above mentioned Linux Hosting Server:

  • The domain name in either the To or the From email address used in the script should be your domain name hosted at this server.

    Example: yourdomain.com is hosted at this server and yourotherdomain1.com and yourotherdomain2.com are hosted with some other hosting provider.

    • The mail will be sent if

      • the From email address is abc@yourdomain.com and the To email address is xyz@yourotherdomain1.com,

        OR

      • the From email address is abc@yourotherdomain1.com and the To email address is xyz@yourdomain.com.

    • The mail will not be sent if the From email address is abc@yourotherdomain1.com and the To email address is xyz@yourotherdomain2.com.


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