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Ajax pattern to send email with a backend file to store an email address

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I use the following backend (PHP) pattern to send email.

I consider to start sending email by Ajax but I would still need to store my email address in some backend file (say, a PHP file) so it won't be available to spambots via Developer tools → Sources.

What Ajax pattern will you use to do so?


behavior.php

<?php
	$name = $_POST['name']; # Required;
	$to = 'EMAIL_ADDRESS_NAME@DOMAIN';
	$subject = 'A new message from: ' . $name;
	$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
	$headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8';
	mail($to, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));
?>

message.php

<?php
	$message = <<<LABEL
		<html>
			<body>
				<div><span class="form_output_col_1">Name: </span><span class="form_output_col_2">$name</span></div>
			</body>
		</html>
	LABEL;
?>
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The answer to the Q "What Ajax pattern will you use to do so?" is: "None..." (2 comments)
The answer to the Q "What Ajax pattern will you use to do so?" is: "None..."
elgonzo‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

Ajax is frontend-side (client-side). If you want to keep the email address in the backend (server-side), then it is a backend concern, not a frontend/Ajax concern. Therefore, the answer to your question "What Ajax pattern will you use to do so?" will be "None", because it is of no concern to the frontend of what the backend does internally "behind" its public API/endpoints...

r~~‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

It's a badly worded question—the intent is clearly not ‘send an email with Ajax’; it's ‘use Ajax to submit data to the server’. Which is still confused, since ‘Ajax’ is nothing more than a somewhat obsolete name for a collection of web development patterns which includes techniques for submitting data to servers other than by navigating to a new page. The specific techniques have changed over time, so ‘use Ajax’ communicates nothing other than ‘I don't want to leave the page’.

This question should probably be, ‘What's the recommended way to send data to my PHP server without navigating to a new page?’ To which the answer is probably ‘use fetch’ and ‘you were on the right track with https://software.codidact.com/posts/285130; this question doesn't add any value on top of that one and should be closed’.