Here on C-W-M we have had a lot of interest lately in using PHP mail functions. PHP provides an easy way to collect information on your website. Everything from a contact form to an online survey, to a ?Tell a Friend? script can be built from a few easy to learn pieces of code. Click to read the first part of a series PHP Mail Form Script Tutorials.
As is usually the case, this tutorial has come about as a result of a project that I got myself tangled up in...
This mail form is programmed in PHP and will send you the results from any form you submit to it. This is a handy "swiss-army knife" tool for Christian web designers working on a server running PHP. Click here to download it: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/downloads/php_mailForm.zip
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this script, you can do so on the forums here: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/forums/index.php?showtopic15
Community member Jim Auldridge has written an easy to use, nicely design Gust Book script. Download it today and give it a try on your website.
There's usually alot of people who would like to try to implement some kind of form-to-mail script. Unfortunately, the most popular open-source mail script is written in Perl and is SO well known it is easily the most exploited. Many hosts actually disable Matt Wright's FormMail for this very reason.
Never fear. PHP to the rescue.