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Eric Brockman
Eric Brockman

Reputation: 854

php contact form not sending content

I'm building a site in wordpress and usually use the contactform7 plugin to handle forms, but am trying to learn how to set up a form without having to rely on the plugin. I've had success with this recently, but on this latest site my content is being sent to the recipient. I get an email, but none of the values from the form are being sent.

Here's my form (I know I have to also learn about validation/ sanitization, that will be another topic!):

<form action="<?php echo home_url('/'); ?>sent/" method="POST" class="col-sm-7">
    <input id="name" placeholder="name:" name="name" type="text" class="form-control" required></label>
    <input id="email" placeholder="email:" name="email" type="text" class="form-control" required> 
    <textarea id="message" placeholder="message:" name="message" class="form-control" rows="8" required></textarea>
    <button id="contact-submit" type="submit" class="btn form-control">Submit</button>
</form>

When the user presses submit the page redirects to url/sent/ in that file I have this:

<?php 
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent="From: $name, $email, \nMessage: $message";
$recipient = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Contact Form Submission";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!"); 
?>

Now when I get the email in my inbox it shows up like this:

From: , , Message:

That's it. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? Any help is, as always, greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Added note: It seems that when the submit button is pressed and the page redirects, it's pulling a 404, though the url it's redirecting to IS correct, in fact, even if I just refresh the page without changing the url it drops the 404 and loads the page content. I guess this is why the content is not being sent, but then why is this happening?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 108

Answers (2)

Eric Brockman
Eric Brockman

Reputation: 854

As it turns out this problem is due to an issue with wordpress. Wordpress does not allow you to use the name="name" - this causes a 404 and the form values are not sent. I changes the name to 'form_name' and it works perfectly now.

Thanks for your help, hope this can help someone else too!

Thanks to Tom Elliot at http://www.webdevdoor.com for the help! http://www.webdevdoor.com/wordpress/submitting-form-wordpress-redirects-404-page/

Upvotes: 1

meda
meda

Reputation: 45490

You should always check to see if the values are set

if(isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['email'])){
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $formcontent="From: $name, $email, \nMessage: $message";
    $recipient = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "Contact Form Submission";
    $mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
    if(mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader)){
     echo "message sent!";
    }else{
        die("Error!");
    }
}else{
    echo "email or name is not set";
}

Also try to change your button to <input type="submit"> even though it might not make a difference. Other than that the code looks fine

Upvotes: 0

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