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// FIRST CREATE A FREE MAILGUN ACCOUNT HERE https://www.mailgun.com/ | |
// html contact form example | |
<form action="mail.php" method="post"> | |
<h5>name</h5> | |
<input type="text" name="name"> | |
<h5>email address</h5> | |
<input type="text" name="email"> | |
<h5>message</h5> | |
<textarea name="message"></textarea> | |
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> | |
</form> | |
// mail.php file | |
// dont forget to download composer here https://getcomposer.org/download/ and phpmailer here https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer | |
<?php | |
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; | |
$mail = new PHPMailer; | |
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ | |
$name = $_POST['name']; | |
$email = $_POST['email']; | |
$message = $_POST['message']; | |
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP | |
$mail->Host = 'smtp.mailgun.org'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers | |
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication | |
$mail->Username = 'MAILGUN USERNAME'; // SMTP username | |
$mail->Password = 'MAILGUN PASSWORD'; // SMTP password | |
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted | |
$mail->Port = 465; // TCP port to connect to | |
$mail->setFrom( $email , $name ); | |
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Chinedu Abalogu'); // Add a recipient | |
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML | |
$mail->Subject = 'Someone has something to say about xxxx'; | |
$mail->Body = $message; | |
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients'; | |
if(!$mail->send()) { | |
header("Location: /error.html"); | |
} else { | |
header("Location: /thankyou.html"); | |
} | |
} | |
?> |
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i am a programmer please i hope code to run sucessfully