##Questions

• Assuming that I wanted to put all the code in a custom page like page-contact.php how can I structure my code so I can receive email? the code works in other PHP projects, but getting an error in a WordPress environment
• Why am I getting an error that the page cannot be found when all i need is the code from the page to handle the form?

##Background I did read another source by Sitepoint about about WordPress emails but this is a tiny project and I just need this to work according to how this project is setup.

In another PHP project I had the form action to be send according to what is written in _contactform.php

<form action="_contactform.php" method="post" name='submitform'>

it works fine there. But when I reused the code in a WordPress project I then got an error that the page did not exist as it seemed to try to direct the user to the url

http://example.com/contact/_contactform.php

So rather than have the action be the _contactform.php I think I can just put the code in the same page but how would I wrap it, etc?

The php file for the form starts with this

<?php
    /* Set e-mail recipient */
    $orderemail  = "[email protected]";

    $name = check_input($_POST['name']);
    $email    = check_input($_POST['email']);
    $address = check_input($_POST['address']);

    $message = "
        Hello!

        Your contact form has been submitted by:

        Name: $name
        E-mail: $email

        Address:
        $address

        End of message
    ";

    /* Send the message using mail() function */
    mail($orderemail, $subject, $message);

Questions

• Assuming that I wanted to put all the code in a custom page like page-contact.php how can I structure my code so I can receive email? the code works in other PHP projects, but getting an error in a WordPress environment
• Why am I getting an error that the page cannot be found when all i need is the code from the page to handle the form?

Background

I did read another source by Sitepoint about about WordPress emails but this is a tiny project and I just need this to work according to how this project is setup.

In another PHP project I had the form action to be send according to what is written in _contactform.php

<form action="_contactform.php" method="post" name='submitform'>

it works fine there. But when I reused the code in a WordPress project I then got an error that the page did not exist as it seemed to try to direct the user to the url

http://example.com/contact/_contactform.php

So rather than have the action be the _contactform.php I think I can just put the code in the same page but how would I wrap it, etc?

The php file for the form starts with this

<?php
    /* Set e-mail recipient */
    $orderemail  = "[email protected]";

    $name = check_input($_POST['name']);
    $email    = check_input($_POST['email']);
    $address = check_input($_POST['address']);

    $message = "
        Hello!

        Your contact form has been submitted by:

        Name: $name
        E-mail: $email

        Address:
        $address

        End of message
    ";

    /* Send the message using mail() function */
    mail($orderemail, $subject, $message);