Contact Form Setup

The template includes a simple PHP mail script that allows you to gather leads from your website without using any CMS or third-party mailing tool.

Open the mail.php file from the root template folder with any text editor and change the $recepient variable to your own email address. Some other variables and text templates are also safe to customize.

<?php
  if ($_POST) {

    $recepient = 'john@example.com'; // your email
    $sitename  = 'Kinsey HTML5 Template'; // your site name
    $subject   = "New contact from \"$sitename\""; // subject template

    $name  = trim($_POST['visitor_name']);
    $email = trim($_POST['visitor_email']);
    $msg   = trim($_POST['visitor_msg']);

    $message = "
    -------------------<br><br>
    Visitor name: $name <br>
    Visitor email: $email <br><br>
    $msg
    <br><br>-------------------
    ";

    mail($recepient, $subject, $message, "From: $name <$email>" . "\r\n" . "Reply-To: $email" . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset="utf-8"');

  }
?>

TIP

The frontend setup (form HTML markup, success, and error messages) is described in the Contact Form component article.

Troubleshooting

If you are experiencing any issues with the mailing script, please contact your hosting provider for assistance and ensure that:

• Your hosting plan supports PHP and it's enabled in your account.
• The PHP mailing function mail() is allowed for execution.
• Your domain is authorized to send emails.
• Emails sent from your website are not going into the spam folder.