PHP-and-MySQL/C4/Sending-Email-Part-1/English

Time	Narration
0:00	Hello and welcome. Today I will teach you how to create an email script particularly when you are registering a user onto a website.
0:12	How do you send them an email confirming that they have registered. I will do that partly by creating a script - a "Send me an email" script.
0:24	This will be in an HTML form in which you can write a subject and a message and send to a specified address.
0:34	So, we will create an address variable.
0:39	I will type my "hotmail" address here.
0:48	You can see when I open up my current "hotmail" page and click on "Inbox", there are no emails here from me.
0:55	There are no new emails at the moment.
1:05	So This is the address in my address variable. I will rename the variable as "to" instead.
1:13	We will use the mail function to send this out.
1:17	We will have the from and subject in here.
1:21	We will have a standard subject which says "Email from PHPAcademy".
1:32	Next we need an HTML form that will submit. I will create a self submission one.
1:39	So lets put some html code here. I will have a form here which will submit to this page with "send me an email dot php".
1:54	The method is going to be POST.
1:59	We will end our form here.
2:02	The user can type in whatever they want to send to the email address that is specified here.
2:10	Obviously you can take this into account. When creating a form, you could say you want to send to this particular address.
2:18	This one will just be "send me an email" script - the email that you want to include in one of your website.
2:27	Now we will have a "text" input.
2:31	This will be the name of the person sending me the email.
2:34	So you have type "text" whose name is "name"
2:39	We'll have "max length" equal 20 for now.
2:45	Underneath this we will create a text area.
2:49	So I will type "textarea" and end it like that.
2:53	Then we will name it as "message".
2:59	We put a paragraph beginning and a paragraph ending here
3:04	And down here we will create a submit button whose value equals "Send"
3:14	Or.... "Send me this", okay?
3:17	So if you come to our page and choose this page here
3:21	this is the space for the name and this is the space for the message.
3:25	So let me just put "Name:" in here and "Message:" in here.
3:31	And this will look much better now. We have our name box and our message box.
3:38	And when we click this button, the email will send.
3:44	Okay so first of all inside our php code we need to check whether the submit button has been pressed.
3:53	For that we have our "if" statement here in parenthesis and our curly brackets for our block if the condition is TRUE.
4:01	The condition will be inside these parenthesis.
4:05	The condition will be the post variable of the "submit" button.
4:15	As long as the submit button has a value.... a spelling mistake....
4:19	So long as the submit button has been pressed, this will contain a value and that value is "Send me this".
4:30	That would just mean that the form has been submitted because the button has been pressed.
4:37	So inside here the first thing we need to do is get the data from the form.
4:44	And that is the name of the person sending the email by submitting the form.
4:49	And their name is contained within this form here - sorry this field here called "name".
4:56	Also we have the message so we can easily duplicate this variable structure and say message in there.
5:08	To test this out I'll say echo name.
5:12	And I'll concatenate the message into that.
5:17	Lets just test this out. Here I'll type "Alex".
5:21	And here I will type "Hi there!"
5:23	Click "Send me this" and we get "Alex" and "Hi there!" up there.
5:28	Ok so, we know that the form data has been submitted correctly.
5:33	In the next part of this video we will learn how to validate this and eventually send this mail to the user specified in this email-id here.
5:42	So join me in the next part. Bye for now.
5:45	This is Evan Varkey dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.

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