Email form and redirect back to the site

[ansokclifford]

hi i'm a newbie on php and i want to create a for that will collect the name and contact number of the person and send it to my email.

can anyone help me on this?
i've tried this code but doesn't send email to my email account
<?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = "[e-mail]"; $name = $_POST['name']; $contact = $_POST['contactl']; $body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $contact; echo "Data has been submitted to $to!"; mail($to, $body);} else { echo "error!";} ?>can you help me on this?

Thanks

[rocknbil]

It's possibly because you're missing a from, which goes in the headers (usually composed as the variable $headers,) and many systems won't send mail without a valid from email. Also the second parameter is subject, you have $body in it. Try one of the examples in the documentation [php.net].