Problem with contact us mail form based on mail() function.

[runar56]

Hi, I have created a contact us form for my website. The user who's trying to contact me fills in all the forms and so on and presses submit. Now when it comes to the processing page all I get is a blank page. No errors or nothing. I know this is a simple mistake but I'm just too thick to see it.🙂 😃

Here is the code:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'] {
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: echo $name;<br>
Phone Number: echo $phone;<br>
echo "$name has included this message / comment:"<br>
echo $text;
';
mail('[e-mail]', "Contact Us Form Subject:$subject", $text,"From: $name <$email>");
}
else { 
echo "An error occured. Please go back and try again."
}
?>

Thanks for your help!🙂

[Huuggee]

have you noticed you $message var is all over the place with ' and " ??

[runar56]

What do you mean? How do I rectify this?

Thanks for your help.🙂

[bodzan]

$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: echo $name;<br>
Phone Number: echo $phone;<br>
echo "$name has included this message / comment:"<br>
echo $text;
'; 

Fix it so it would look like this:

$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br>
Phone Number: $phone;<br>
$name has included this message / comment:<br>
$text;
'; 

You cannot have echo inside a variable value assigning statement...

[runar56]

Thanks.🙂

But I still get just a blank page. This is the changed code:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'] {
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$message = ' 
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br> 
Phone Number: $phone;<br> 
$name has included this message / comment:<br> 
$text; 
';
mail('[e-mail]', "Contact Us Form Subject:$subject", $text,"From: $name <$email>");
}
else { 
echo "An error occured. Please go back and try again."
}
?>

[bodzan]

Do the echo of the $message....

[runar56]

like so?

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'] {
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$message = ' 
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br> 
Phone Number: $phone;<br> 
$name has included this message / comment:<br> 
$text; 
';
mail('[e-mail]', "Contact Us Form Subject:$subject", echo $message,"From: $name <$email>");
}
else { 
echo "An error occured. Please go back and try again.";
}
?>

If so it still doesn't work.

Thanks for your time.🙂

[bodzan]

First option to get the content of $message printed out on the page do this:

$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br>
Phone Number: $phone;<br>
$name has included this message / comment:<br>
$text;
';
echo $message;

Second option if you want to just send e-mail with the content of the $message as a e-mail content do this:

$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br>
Phone Number: $phone;<br>
$name has included this message / comment:<br>
$text;
';
mail('[e-mail]', "Contact Us Form Subject:$subject", $message,"From: $name <$email>");

Third if you want to do both do:

$message = '
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br>
Phone Number: $phone;<br>
$name has included this message / comment:<br>
$text;
';

echo $message;

mail('[e-mail]', "Contact Us Form Subject:$subject", $message,"From: $name <$email>");

And for you just start reading on this if you want to learn real PHP... 😉

[Huuggee]

in $message, the variables will print their names too, beacuse you are using single quotes (' ')
If you want these resolved, wrap them in double quotes

$message = "
Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;<br>
Phone Number: $phone;<br>
$name has included this message / comment:<br>
$text;
"; 

[runar56]

ok, I've changed the code around abit. Now it looks like this and i think it's a bit better. But I still get the same thing, a blank page.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'] {
$admin_mail = "[e-mail]";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$message = "Name of Person Trying to contact you: $name;\n";
$message .= "Phone Number: $phone;\n"; 
$message .= "$name has included this message / comment:\n";
$message .= "$text\n";
echo $message;
mail($admin_mail, $subject, $message, "From: $name <$email>");
}
else { 
echo "An error occured. Please go back and try again.";
}
?>

Thanks for your help.🙂

[Huuggee]

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'] {
$admin_mail = "[e-mail]";

🙂 you haven't closed the if(isset()) statement, at all!!

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$admin_mail = "[e-mail]";