diff --git a/php/submitIssue.php b/php/submitIssue.php
index 402f0ce..e1cae27 100644
--- a/php/submitIssue.php
+++ b/php/submitIssue.php
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
-THIS FILE WILL CONTAIN THE FUNCTIONS NEEDED TO SUBMIT AN ISSUE TO gitea
+<?php
 
-TAKING IN ARGUMENTS CONTAINING THE REQUEST DATA
+function submitToGitea($title,$body) {
+
+  // Get API Key for git.fjla.uk
+  require '/srv/php-keys/athena/gitea.php';
+
+  // Set httpHeaders
+  $httpHeaders = array(
+    "accept: application/json",
+    $giteaKey,
+    "Content-Type: application/json"
+  );
+
+  // Prepare the request
+  $rawData = array(
+    'body' => $body,
+    'title' => $subject
+  );
+
+  $preparedData = json_encode($rawData);
+
+  // Prepare CURL
+  $curlConnection = curl_init('https://git.fjla.uk/api/v1/repos/fred.boniface/athena.fb-infra.uk/issues');
+  curl_setopt($curlConnection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $preparedData);
+  curl_setopt($curlConnection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+  curl_setopt($curlConnection, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $httpHeaders);
+
+  // Get response and exit CURL
+  $response = curl_exec($curlConnection);
+  curl_close($curlConnection);
+
+  return $response;
+}