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Personal Portfolio Site with Contact Form

Build a personal portfolio website in plain PHP with project listing pages and a working contact form that validates input and emails submissions via PHPMailer. Learners practice basic PHP templating, form handling, and server-side validation.

Estimate
~7h
Steps
5
Completed by
0
Proposed by
codeseed.app

PHPMailer

Project roadmap

  1. 01

    Build the page structure

    ~1.5h

    Create PHP include-based templates for header/footer shared across home, projects, and contact pages.

  2. 02

    Add the projects listing

    ~1.5h

    Loop over a PHP array (or simple JSON file) of projects to render a portfolio grid.

  3. 03

    Build the contact form

    ~1h

    Create an HTML form that posts to a PHP handler script.

  4. 04

    Validate and sanitize input

    ~1.5h

    Validate required fields and email format server-side before processing.

  5. 05

    Send email with PHPMailer

    ~1.5h

    Configure PHPMailer to send the validated form data to your inbox and show a success message.

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~7h · 5 steps

Tech stack

PHPMailer