Here's the form code we'll use for the tutorial. It may not be the prettiest code you ever saw, but it'll serve for this tutorial. Copy/paste it and save it as contact.html on your server if you want to test this script.

<form action="contact.php" method="post">
Enter your name:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor_name" size="20"><br /><br />
Enter your e-mail address:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor_email" size="20"><br /><br />
Choose a subject for your message:<br />
<select name="subject">
<option selected value="General Comment">General</option>
<option value="Information">Information</option>
<option value="Complaint">Complaint</option>
</select><br /> <br />
Choose a recipient for your message: <br />
<select name="whofor">
<option selected value="1">Webmaster</option>
<option value="2">Sales Team</option>
<option value="3">Service Team</option>
</select>
<br /> <br />
Enter your comments: <br />
<textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="5"></textarea>
<br /> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Extra stuff

Apart from those inputs to be used by our site visitor, we'll also add the IP address of the visitor and the time that the message was sent. We'll use php directly to acquire that information:

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