What are all the steps I have to do to get my bootstrap email form working? - form-submit

Question

What should I do to get my form working? My website and everything is set up. I just can't get my form working. Can I do it from rdp? or firezila server?
<form>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" required="required" placeholder="Name">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" required="required" placeholder="Email address">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<textarea name="message" id="message" required="required" class="form-control" rows="3" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit Request</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

Submit your form to php and send the mail, ulter the code as below and consider adding a subject field too:
<form name="nameforform" action="thephpfilename.php" method="POST">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" required="required" placeholder="Name" name="name">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" required="required" placeholder="Email address" name="email">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<textarea name="message" id="message" required="required" class="form-control" rows="3" placeholder="Message" name="message"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit Request</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Then create a php file (eg: thefilename.php) [besure to change the action attribute of the form element to that of the created php file's name.
The php file should have the following code:
<?php
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = '';
$message = $_POST['message'];
$headers = 'From:'. $_POST['name'] . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
It would work, be sure to tweak your server's settings and also specify more info in the question next time.
Lastly how it works,
On submitting the form the browser sends a get/post request to the file specified on the action attribute of the form element. The php
file handles the request and does the needy. The data is stored with
reference to the name attribute of the input and textarea elements.
The data can be stored as arrays too. Here we use the php's mail()
function to send the mail using appropriate headers. HTML or bootstrap
cannot send mail independently without server intervention.
Be sure to comment for more info and other help, enjoy out there.