help with basic PHP assignment

I am applying for an internship and they gave me an assignment to complete. They know I have a background in C and have absolutely no experience with PHP. They wasn't me to demonstrate the ability to find the answer to a problem not necessarily demonstrate my knowlege of coding. The following are the parameters of the assignment:

Create a form in PHP that gathers all the information and sends an email with all info upon submitting it.

Form Structure:

first_name, last_name, email and phone.

All fields should be required.

Validate the email.

Validate the phone structure.

This is a tremendous opportunity for me to learn and gain valuable experience. Any help is truly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking from us. Are you looking for us to point you to resources on the web that will teach you how to do this?

Here's a good link for PHP.
http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

You need to looking into how to use the $_POST variable. The mail() (http://www.php.net/mail). And probably some Regular Expressions (REGEX) to validate email and phone number structure.

Form Issues?
check out our own Andrew Johnson's http://www.kwickwidgets.com/ should help

So they don't want you to actually provide code for this? I find that hard to believe. My professional opinion is that they want to see if you are a programmer or just someone who learns one language. For a true programmer the language doesn't matter. It's just a tool to accomplish the task. So unless they have asked your for nothing more than an algorithm or pseudo code to accomplish this then I would suspect that they expect you to write the code for this to see if you can design it then implement it which are two basic fundamentals of software engineering.