Send completed form information to an email - html

Question

Hey guys I'm just starting to learn some php and I was wondering how I could send information from a completed form to an email. I have the code I have listed on the bottom but I know it's not right, any help will be appreciated thanks!
PHP:
<?php
$email = $_REQUEST['clientEmail'] ;
$subject = "New Order";
$name = $_REQUEST['clientName'] ;
$articleAmount = $_REQUEST['articleNum'];
$wordAmount = $_REQUEST['wordNum'];
$topic = $_REQUEST['topic'];
$info = $_REQUEST['addInfo'];
mail("kevin.duan996#gmail.com", $subject,
"Name:" . $name . "<br/>" . "Amount of Articles:" . $articleAmount . "<br/>" . "Amount of Words:" . $wordAmount . "<br/>" . "Topic:" . $topic . "<br/>" . "Additional Information:" . $info, "From:" . $email);
echo "Thank you for ordering!";
?>
html:
<form action="order.php">
<fieldset id="client" >
<legend>Client Information</legend>
<label for="clientName">Name:</label><input type="text" name="clientName" id="clientName" tabindex="1"/>
<label for="clientEmail">Email:</label><input type="email" name="clientEmail" id="clientEmail" tabindex="2"/>
</fieldset>
<fieldset id="order">
<legend>Order Information</legend>
<label for="articleNum">Number of Articles</label><input type="text" name="articleNum" id="articleNum" tabindex="3"/>
<label for="wordNum">Words per Article</label><input type="text" name="wordNum" id="wordNum" tabindex="4"/>
<label for="topic">Topics</label><input type="text" name="topic" id="topic" tabindex="5"/>
<label for="addInfo">Additional Info</label><input type="text" name="addInfo" id="addInfo" tabindex="6"/>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<button type="submit">Submit!</button>
</fieldset>
</form>

Answer 1

Use PHP mail or PHPMailer (works pretty well) ?

Answer 2

Using the PHPMailer library: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
define('PROJECT_ROOT', '/path/to/your/root/'); //Different for different webhosts or self hosted environments
require (PROJECT_ROOT . 'PHPMailer-master/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$to = $_POST['clientEmail']; //Email dervied from POST data.
$mail->Host = "mail.example.com"; //If you haven't got an SMTP server, use Gmail's free one.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = "someEmail#example.com";
$mail->Password = "somePass";
$mail->From = 'someEmail#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'My Website';
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->isHTML(true); // Or false
$mail->addReplyTo('support#example.com', 'Support');
$mail->Subject = 'Message subject here';
$mail->addAddress($to);
$mail->Body = ""; // Message body using HTML here. (Remove if $mail->isHTML(); is false)
$mail->AltBody = "
Client: " . $_POST['clientName'] . " //Again: derived from POST data.
Email: " . $to . " //We defined this variable before as clientEmail
Number of Articles: " . $_POST['articleNum'] . "
Words per Article: " . $_POST['wordNum'] . "
Topics: " . $_POST['topic'] . "
Additional Info: " . $_POST['addInfo'] . "
";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
} else {
echo "Mail sent!";
}
I noticed that your form is missing a method of sending this information that the users type in.
<form action="order.php">
It should be:
<form action="order.php" method="POST">
Hope that you get it working!