Contact us form are widely available in website to help customers/clients contact the website owners with any request or concern.
To send an email using a contact us form, the email must be authenticated with a username and password. PHP mailer function must be used instead of PHP mai()
Sending Mail from PHP Using SMTP Authentication - Example <?php require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Sandra Sender <sender@example.com>"; $to = "Ramona Recipient <recipient@example.com>"; $subject = "Hi!"; $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?"; $host = "mail.example.com"; $username = "smtp_username"; $password = "smtp_password"; $headers = array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject); $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password)); $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>"); } else { echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>"); } ?> Sending Mail from PHP Using SMTP Authentication and SSL Encryption - Example <?php require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Sandra Sender <sender@example.com>"; $to = "Ramona Recipient <recipient@example.com>"; $subject = "Hi!"; $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?"; $host = "ssl://mail.example.com"; $port = "465"; $username = "smtp_username"; $password = "smtp_password"; $headers = array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject); $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'port' => $port, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password)); $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>"); } else { echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>"); } ?>