Email Forms In PHP, The Easiest Yet...
By Dan Ball
2003-09-27
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PHP Email Form Introduction
I recently admitted to myself that my home business should be moved off of the "free hosting" service I have had it on for about 3 years. Though the service was great, and it was very feature-rich as compared to any other free service I have seen, it is still subject to invasive maneuvers by the company itself. That said, I moved to a pay service. The immediate thrill was no banner code to add to my pages. The underlying benefit was their support of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) pages and hosting a MySQL database. I knew when I signed up that they supported that, what I didn't know was how great that combination was, and how powerful PHP really is.
With this "rebirth" I have found in web development with my introduction to PHP I have decided to dedicate a little bit of my time, and a few pages to PHP and how easy it is to setup a very cool email feedback form with it. My last contribution to WebReference.com was a tutorial in the basics of JavaMail, which, in it's own right, is very cool and still much easier than the ol' Perl/CGI forms of yester-year. However, I do feel that PHP even has a slight edge on JavaMail in the fact that PHP has, at least to this point, been much easier to learn and implement some very handy features into my website. A simple feedback form being the first I accomplished.
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