Creating a PHP contact form using phpMailer and MySQL from scratch - Part 1

In this series I explain and build out a fully functioning production ready PHP contact form. In part one of this series we will build the PHP contact form from scratch using bootstrap as the HTML base. Then in part two we will add phpMailer which will enable you to use a third party email server like gmail to send your emails. We will end off in part three by installing MySQL and configuring our PHP contact form script to use the MySQL database to store the leads.

You can find the full source code with some additional information here: https://erikthiart.com/thorscorner/bu...

You can also find the full source code on Github here: https://github.com/ErikThiart/php-con...

NOTE: There are a lot of PHP haters out there, but their objections are partially hyperbole and dodging responsibility for being a good programmer. There's an old proverb: "a poor workman always blames his tools."

PHP is still the most popular of all scripting languages (i.e. non-compiled). And it's not going to disappear in the near future.

A great resource to study is https://phptherightway.com/