Syntactically it could appear something like this in a template:

<?php
	open_the_form(
		'my_form',				// Form name
		'http://formaction.do',	// Form action/return page if not AJAX
		'recipient@email.com',	// Email recipient(s)
		array(				// Required Fields - we could go a level deeper and set arrays of validation rules for each field, or call fields using PHP rather than HTML with validation rules specified inline
			'name',
			'email',
			'telephone'
		)
	);
?>
	...inputs here...
</form>

...with a fairly simple admin panel that allows filtration of entries saved to the database by form name ("my_form" above) and some other parameters.