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user3424806
user3424806

Reputation: 17

Simple contact form won't work - php

Again - I've looked and troubleshooted for about an hour and cannot get the php contact form to work. I get the "Thank you!" email, but I haven't received the email to my inbox ever. I've done it about 20 times. 

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-12">
      <h5>Want to contact me quickly? Use this form!</h5>
      <form id="contact" method="post" action="submit.php" class="form" role="form">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="form-group col-lg-4">
          <label>Name</label></br>
          <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Enter your full name" required autofocus>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group col-lg-4">
          <label>Email address</label></br>
          <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Enter your email address" required autofocus>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group col-lg-4">
          <label>Subject</label></br>
          <input type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject">
        </div>
        <div class="form-group col-lg-12">
          <label>Message</label>
          <textarea name="comments" name="message" data-provide="markdown-editable" rows="6" placeholder="Let's chat!" style="width:100%"></textarea>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group col-lg-12 form-action">
          <input type="hidden" name="Submit" value="contact">
          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>          
        </div>
    </form>
    </div>
</div>

PHP:

<?php
if ($_POST['Submit'])
{
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];
$to='MY EMAIL ADDRESS';
$from='website';

if (mail($to, $subject, $name, $email, $comments))
{
    echo 'Thank you!';
}
else
{
    echo 'Something went wrong! Try again';
}
}?>

Any help is greatly appreciated. I have my MAMP server on and I get the "thank you!" message every time, but I haven't gotten any emails. Also, I'd really like it to show the "thank you!" and then return to my webpage, but I can't even get the php to work so I maybe should hold off on that part.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 986

Answers (2)

Michael Butler
Michael Butler

Reputation: 6309

The mail() function simply returns true if the message has been queued without error in your system... but it doesn't tell you whether the email was actually sent or not. I see you're using Mac OS X, so you'll have to configure SMTP settings (provided by your ISP) in the PHP environment to get mail sending working.

Alternately, you can use a service like Amazon SES to send emails through PHP.

Upvotes: 0

Paul Denisevich
Paul Denisevich

Reputation: 2414

You have a wrong call of mail() function. It should be like this:

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

So, for your case:

<?php
if ($_POST['Submit'])
{
    $name=$_POST['name'];
    $email=$_POST['email'];
    $subject=$_POST['subject'];
    $comments=$_POST['comments'];
    $to='[email protected]';
    $from='website';

    $message = 'Message: ' . $comments . "\r\n";
    $message .= 'From: ' . $from;

    $headers = 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n";

    if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
    {
        echo 'Thank you!';
    }
    else
    {
        echo 'Something went wrong! Try again';
    }
}
?>

Upvotes: 2

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