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Nathan Kreider
Nathan Kreider

Reputation: 516

PHP mail out not working

doing some quick web dev work for a local body modification parlour just in my spare time; I'm trying to setup a Contact Us form, except when I hit submit, it just returns the die(); method. I'm not too sure what I'm doing wrong, because i'm used to programming Java, and I'd just get the error method for that. Haha. My code is as below if anyone is able to help me, the problem area is within the "contact" case.

<html>
<head>
<title>Darklite Tattoo & Piercing</title>
<link href="src/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></link>
</head>
<body bgcolor="000048" />
<?php include("src/config.php"); ?>
  <div align="center" /><img src="src/img/darklite_banner.jpg" /><br />
    <div id="main" />
        <?php echo("<a href=\"index.php\" />Home</a> &middot; <a href=\"index.php?x=profiles\" />Profiles</a> &middot; <a href=\"index.php?x=services\" />Services</a> &middot; <a href=\"index.php?x=contact\" />Contact Us</a>"); ?>
            <hr>
            <?php
                $x = $_GET['x'];
                switch($x) {
                    case "profiles":
                        echo("Le profiles.");
                    break; case "services":
                        echo("Body piercings and tattoo's.");
                    break; case "contact":
                        if ($_POST["email"]<>'') { 
                            $ToEmail = '[email protected]'; 
                            $EmailSubject = 'Site contact form '; 
                            $mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n"; 
                            $mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n"; 
                            $mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
                            $MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."<br>"; 
                            $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."<br>"; 
                            $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Comment: ".nl2br($_POST["comment"])."<br>"; 
                            mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure"); 
                        ?> 
                        Your message was sent
                        <?php 
                        } else { 
                        ?> 
                        <form action="index.php?x=contact" method="post">
                        <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
                        <tr>
                        <td width="29%" class="bodytext">Your name:</td>
                        <td width="71%"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="32"></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                        <td class="bodytext">Email address:</td>
                        <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="32"></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                        <td class="bodytext">Comment:</td>
                        <td><textarea name="comment" cols="45" rows="6" id="comment" class="bodytext"></textarea></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                        <td class="bodytext">&nbsp;</td>
                        <td align="left" valign="top"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send"></td>
                        </tr>
                        </table>
                        </form> 
                        <?php 
                        }; 
                    break; default:
                        echo("Welcome to Darklite Tattoo & Piercing!");
                    break;
                }
            ?>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 252

Answers (2)

Dau
Dau

Reputation: 8858

are you testing it on the localhost if yes then you have to setup a mail server in your localhost some of the mail servers are sendmail, postfix you have to configure one of them to your local system

Upvotes: 1

maialithar
maialithar

Reputation: 3123

To send a mail via php you need an smtp server. You can set it in your php_ini config file or by invoking ini_set beofre using mail function:

ini_set('sendmail_from', '$from');
ini_set('SMTP', '$smtp_server_address');
ini_set('smtp_port', $smtp_port);
mail(...);

Upvotes: 1

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