How to create a contact form in PHP

The contact form is a basic necessity for every website. The user can contact you if any help.

Today we’ll create a simple contact form using PHP MySQL.

We’ll create an entire form in HTML and CSS and for the backend, we use PHP code.

We’ll create a database table.

In the table, we’ll create 5 fields like Id, First name, Email, address, mobile, and message.

We’ll create a PHP file.

Code for database

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `contacttab` (
  `id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `fullname` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `email` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `address` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `mobile` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `message` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

Now, after creating the table open any text editor whatever you like to use.

Here, used Notepad. You can use Notepad++, sublime text, and another text editor.

For creating the contact form used PHP Language for backend and HTML/CSS for design.

Code for PHP

Preview:

<!-- contact form in php -->

<?php

$conn=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","");


$db=mysqli_select_db($conn,"contactdb");

if(!$conn){


die('could not connect');}

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

$fname=$_POST['txtname'];


$email=$_POST['txtemail'];


$address=$_POST['txtaddr'];


$mobile=$_POST['txtmobi'];


$message=$_POST['txtmessage'];

$query="insert into contacttab(fullname,address,email,mobile,message)values('$fname','$email','$address','$mobile','$message')";

$result=mysqli_query($conn,$query);
}
?>


<html>
<head>
<style>
body{align-items:center;
display:flex;
justify-content:center;
}

.container{color:white;padding:50px;


background-image:url(backimage2.jpg)}

input[type=submit]{background-color:red;width:400px;color:white;
height:30px;font-size:20px;}
input{width:400px;margin:0px;

height: 35px;
}

textarea{width:400px;height:70px;}

h1{text-align:center;font-size:50px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">

<h1>Contact Form</h1>

<h4><span style="color:red">*</span>Required</h4>

<form method="POST"action="contact.php">

<tr>
<td>Full Name<span style="color:red">*</span></td><br>

<td><input type="text"name="txtname"placeholder="your Name"required></td><br>
</tr><br>

<tr>
<td>Email<span style="color:red">*</span></td><br>

<td><input type="email"name="txtemail"placeholder="Your Email"required</td><br>

</tr><br>


<tr>
<td>Address<span style="color:red">*</span></td><br>

<td><textarea name="txtaddr"cols="28"rows="3"placeholder="Address"required></textarea></td><br>

</tr><br>


<tr>
<td>Mobile<span style="color:red">*</span></td><br>

<td><input type="text"name="txtmobi"placeholder="Your mobile No."></td><br>
</tr><br>

<tr>
<td>Message<span style="color:red">*</span></td><br>

<td><textarea name="txtmessage"cols="48"rows="3"placeholder="Type Your Message here..."required></textarea></td><br>
</tr><br>

<tr>
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit"name="submit"value="submit"></td><br>
</tr><br>
</form>
</div>

</body>
<html>