Sending information from html form to email

Question

I have a simple form for a website allowing users to send a query/message to my clients email address.

I'm struggling trying to get this working. So far I have managed to find some code (also via stack overflow) that allows the form to send a blank email to the correct address upon submit. I seem to be missing some code or something that makes the submit button pull information from the form to send.

Below is the code I have.

Thanks (PS I have no experience with PHP, only as to alter the code I previously found to get this far).

<?php
    mail('chameleonyeadon@gmail.com', $_POST['name'], $_POST['email'], $_POST['number'], $_POST['message']);
?>  

<form method="post" action="email.php" enctype="text/plain">
                    <!-- name-->
                    <label class="contact__form--label"><em>What is your name?</em><br> 
                        <input type="text" name="name" class="contact__form__inputbox contact__form__inputbox--marg contact__form__inputbox--pad" placeholder="Enter your name here" maxlength="30" required="required"/></label><br>
                    <!-- email-->
                    <label class="contact__form--label"><em>Do you have an email address?</em><br>
                        <input type="email" name="email" class="contact__form__inputbox contact__form__inputbox--marg contact__form__inputbox--pad" placeholder="Enter your email address here" maxlength="50" required="required"/></label><br>
                    <!-- number-->
                    <label class="contact__form--label"><em>Can we contact you by phone?</em><br>
                        <input type="number" name="number" class="contact__form__inputbox contact__form__inputbox--marg contact__form__inputbox--pad" placeholder="Enter a phone number we can use here" maxlength="50" required="required"/></label><br>
                    <!-- message--> 
                    <label class="contact__form--label"><em>What is your message?</em><br>
                        <textarea name="message" required="required" class="contact__form__inputbox contact__form__inputbox--marg contact__form__textarea contact__form__inputbox--pad" placeholder="Enter your message here"></textarea></label><br>   
                    <div class="contact__form__btns">
                        <input type="submit" value="Send" class="btn btn--brdr btn--padding--less">
                        <input type="reset" value="Clear" class="btn btn--brdr btn--padding--less btn__formpos">    
                    </div>      
                    </form>

Answer 1

First you have to remove action="email.php" since you put PHP code in the same file.

Then, you have to remove enctype="text/plain" to get it works.

See this stackoverflow subject

Finally, it is good to test what was send in PHP before doing mail function in addition to your required verification