How to use contact form php

Question

I bought a theme from theme forest to further build it with html and css. However there is a contact form which I have no idea how to use. I'm beginner in php and javascript. I thought that I should just insert my email address to: //ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE $address = '[email protected]';. But this did not workout.

My question is: How do I make this work so that when somebody try to contact me by filling the contact form I will receive the mail to my email address. I tested by myself on my local server, I don't receive any mail when I tried to fill the contact form.. Anyone please bring me to the right direction.

<?php

if(!$_POST) exit;

function tommus_email_validate($email) { return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) && preg_match('/@.+\./', $email); }

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$website = $_POST['website']; 
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

if(trim($name) == '') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! You must enter your name.</div>');
} else if(trim($name) == 'Name') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! You must enter your name.</div>');
} else if(trim($email) == '') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please enter a valid email address.</div>');
} else if(!tommus_email_validate($email)) {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! You have entered an invalid e-mail address.</div>');
} else if(trim($website) == 'Website') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please enter your website.</div>');
} else if(trim($website) == '') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please enter your website.</div>');
} else if(trim($comments) == 'Message') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please enter your message.</div>');
} else if(trim($comments) == '') {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please enter your message.</div>');
} else if( strpos($comments, 'href') !== false ) {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please leave links as plain text.</div>');
} else if( strpos($comments, '[url') !== false ) {
	exit('<div class="alert danger">Attention! Please leave links as plain text.</div>');
} if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $comments = stripslashes($comments); }

//ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE
$address = '[email protected]';

$e_subject = 'You\'ve been contacted by ' . $name . '.';
$e_body = "You have been contacted by $name from $website from your contact form, their additional message is as follows." . "\r\n" . "\r\n";
$e_content = "\"$comments\"" . "\r\n" . "\r\n";
$e_reply = "You can contact $name via email, $email";

$msg = wordwrap( $e_body . $e_content . $e_reply, 70 );

$headers = "From: $address" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" . "\r\n";

if(mail($address, $e_subject, $msg, $headers)) { 
	echo "<fieldset><div id='success_page'><h4 class='remove-bottom'>Email Sent Successfully.</h4><p>Thank you <strong>$name</strong>, your message has been submitted to us.</p></div></fieldset>"; 
}

<section id="contact" class="page-section dark-wrapper">
		<div class="container">
			<div class="row">
				
				<div class="page-header text-center">
					<!-- multiple h1's are perfectly acceptable on a page in valid HTML5, when wrapped in individual sections, they're 100% semantically correct -->
					<h1>Contact Me<small>Here's a Working Contact Form</small></h1>
					<!-- seriously -->
				</div>
				
				<div class="col-sm-8">
					<div id="message"></div>
					<form method="post" action="sendemail.php" id="contactform">
						<input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Name" />
						<input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Email" />
						<input type="text" name="website" id="website" placeholder="Website" />
						<textarea name="comments" id="comments" placeholder="Comments"></textarea>
						<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
					</form>
				</div>
				
				<div class="col-sm-4 lp30">
					<h5>Contact Me</h5>
					<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar.</p>
					<ul class="fa-ul">
						<li class="bm15"><i class="fa fa-map-marker fa-fw fa-2x fa-li"></i> Denmark</li>
						<li class="bm15"><i class="fa fa-phone-square fa-fw fa-2x fa-li"></i> 08044576869</li>
						<li class="bm15"><i class="fa fa-laptop fa-fw fa-2x fa-li"></i> <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_top">[email protected]</a></li>
					</ul>
				</div>	 
				
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

The question is: How do I make this work so that when I send a test mail it will go to my email. Currently I don't receive any mail when I tried to fill the contact form and send. — Kami
Yes I tried it on local server. I have my files on my computer. — Kami
@RohitashvSinghal mail function works on localhost, you only need to configure mail server. In web servers the administrator has already done that for you — bansi

ShahiM ShahiM · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16T07:34:14

If you dont want to bother yourself with writing PHP code, the take a look at Formspree. The service is free for upto 1000 requests a month.

Its also very simple to use : just add the action property to your form. like this :

<form action="//formspree.io/[email protected]"
      method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="email" name="_replyto">
    <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

How to use contact form php

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