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Not sure if this will be useful to anyone, but maybe the explinations will help some people with the workings of PHP.

This is how you send a form via a PHP script.

Ok, the first thing you need is the form. Which will be made with HTML.
In this form, we will ask for a name, email and comment.

<form action='send.php' method='post'>
	Name: <input type='text' name='name' /><br /><br />
	E-Mail: <input type='text' name='email' /><br /><br />
	Comment: <textbox name='comment' cols='50' rows='5'></textbox><br /><br />
	<input type='submit' value='Send' name='submit' />
</form>

Now, to break down some parts of HTML you may not be used to.

form action='send.php'

This means that once submitted, it will execute the code in the send.php file.

method='post'

That is used to carry the information through the browser.

name='email'

That is used to assign the inputted information a specific name, you'll see
where that comes up later in the PHP script.

Ok, onto the PHP script needed to send the information.

<?php

//Check to see if the submit button was hit
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	echo "You did not submit the form";

} else {

//Assign each submitted information to a variable
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];

//Assign the mail variables
$subject = "Form Submitted";
$message = "Name: $name\n\n E-mail: $email\n\n $content";
$your_email = "youremail@domain.com";

//send the mail
mail($your_email, $subject, $message);


//Tell the user that the email was successful and redirect them
echo "E-mail sent, thanks for your feedback<br />Redirecting...";
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV = 'Refresh' Content = '2; URL = index.php'>";

}

?>

And now a further breakdown of the above code.

if (!isset($_POST['submit']))

This checks to see if the submit button was clicked. And if it was not, to display an error.

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];

$_POST is a pre-defined variable in PHP. the ['email'] assigns the submitted information from the text box with the name 'email'. Then, you store the information from $_POST['email'] in the $email variable.

//Assign the mail variables
$subject = "Form Submitted";
$message = "Name: $name\n\n E-mail: $email\n\n $content";
$your_email = "youremail@domain.com";

//send the mail
mail($your_email, $subject, $message);

Then, you send the submitted information in a email to your email address.

//PHP comments

Using 2 slashes (//) is how you make singl line comments in PHP, just so you know what i was doing in the above code.

And that is about all. If any part of it doesn't make sense to you just post here and i'll try to further explain

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