Send Contact Form Fields in Email - ios

Question

I have a contact form made of text fields (5 fields) that I would like to send via email to a single email address. How do I do this in xCode?

Answer 1

For anyone stumbling across this question, you can use this drop-in iOS contact form.
This fit my needs well, it uses a PHP component to actually send the email. (an example script is included in the sample project.
I posted it to Github here:
https://github.com/mikecheckDev/MDContactForm

Answer 2

The linked post has a similar answer, but I'm adding my code since it checks for canSendMail already. I also left in a bunch of commented code that makes it easy to add other stuff to the email.
Note that this is substantially easier if you are only targeting iOS 5.
I have a free app, QCount, that uses this code. Indeed, I hope I stripped everything custom from my copy-and-paste :-) http://itunes.apple.com/ng/app/qcount/id480084223?mt=8
Enjoy,
Damien
In your .h:
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
Methods in your .m:
- (void)emailLabelPressed { // or whatever invokes your email
// Create a mail message in the user's preferred mail client
// by opening a mailto URL. The extended mailto URL format
// is documented by RFC 2368 and is supported by Mail.app
// and other modern mail clients.
//
// This routine's prototype makes it easy to connect it as
// the action of a user interface object in Interface Builder.
Class mailClass = (NSClassFromString(#"MFMailComposeViewController"));
if (mailClass != nil)
{
// We must always check whether the current device is configured for sending emails
if ([mailClass canSendMail])
{
[self displayComposerSheet];
}
else
{
[self launchMailAppOnDevice];
}
}
else
{
[self launchMailAppOnDevice];
}
}
-(void)displayComposerSheet {
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[picker setSubject:#"Your Form Subject"];
// Take screenshot and attach (optional, obv.)
UIImage *aScreenshot = [self screenshot];
NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithData:UIImagePNGRepresentation(aScreenshot)];
[picker addAttachmentData:imageData mimeType:#"image/png" fileName:#"screenshot"];
// Set up the recipients.
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"first#example.com", nil];
// NSArray *ccRecipients = [[NSArray alloc] init];
// NSArray *bccRecipients = [[NSArray alloc] init];
// NSArray *ccRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"second#example.com", #"third#example.com", nil];
// NSArray *bccRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"fourth#example.com", nil];
[picker setToRecipients:toRecipients];
// [picker setCcRecipients:ccRecipients];
// [picker setBccRecipients:bccRecipients];
// Attach an image to the email.
/* NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"ipodnano"
ofType:#"png"];
NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
[picker addAttachmentData:myData mimeType:#"image/png"
fileName:#"ipodnano"];
*/
// Fill out the email body text.
// NSString *emailBody = #"Use this for fixed content.";
NSMutableString *emailBody = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
[emailBody setString: #"Feedback"];
// programmatically add your 5 fields of content here.
[picker setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:NO];
// Present the mail composition interface.
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(presentViewController:animated:completion:)]) {
[self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];
} else {
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}
}
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController *)controller
didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result
error:(NSError *)error {
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion:)]) {
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
} else {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
}
-(void)launchMailAppOnDevice {
NSString *recipients = #"mailto:first#example.com?cc=second#example.com,third#example.com&subject=Hello from California!";
NSString *body = #"&body=Feedback";
NSString *email = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#%#", recipients, body];
email = [email stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:email]];
}