Contact Form Not working

b_ball_player9 · Nov 23, 2005

hey
i posted earlyer today with a poll problem and you guys did an awsum job helping me out, so here i go again.

I have a contact form on my site, which when the user fills out all the forms it takes them to the thank you page, and if they dont fill it out proprely it tells them, so this is all fine except i dont recive any emails, lol could this be becasue i cant do it from my own computer?

[URL]http://b_ball_player9.cjb.cc/contact.html[/URL]

any info would be greatly appriected

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 <html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Milo's Portfolio</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="5 Days">
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

  <link href="file.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file.css" title="swap1" >
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file2.css" title="swap2" >
<script type="text/javascript" src="styleswitcher.js"></script>
</head>




<body>
<div id="container_blue">


 <div id="brown_button">
   <a href="index.html"><img src="images/home_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="red_button">
  <a href="portfolio.html"><img src="images/port_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>


 <div id="blue_button">
   <a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="green_button">
  <a href="about.html"><img src="images/about_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>




<div id="contact_form">
<form method="post" action="send.php">
    Name:<br><input name="name" type="text" size="30"><br><br>
    Email:<br><input name="email" type="text" size="30"><br><br>
    Comments:<br><input name="subject" type="text" size="30"><br><br>
    Message:<br><textarea name="msg" cols="25" rows="6"></textarea><br><br>
    <input type="reset" value="Reset"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
   </form>

</div>










<div id="valid">
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401"
        alt="Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" height="31" width="88" border="0" ></a>

<img src="images/validcss.gif" alt="Valid CSS" /></div>


</div>
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="5 Days">
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>Thank you for contacting us</title>

   <link href="file.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file.css" title="swap1" >
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file2.css" title="swap2" >
<script type="text/javascript" src="styleswitcher.js"></script>


  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF">
   <h1>Thank you for contacting us</h1>

   <!-- your html -->

   <div id="container_blue">


 <div id="brown_button">
   <a href="index.html"><img src="images/home_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="red_button">
  <a href="portfolio.html"><img src="images/port_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>


 <div id="blue_button">
   <a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="green_button">
  <a href="about.html"><img src="images/about_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>



<?php
$to       = "b_ball_player9@hotmail.com"; // change to your email address
$name     = $_POST['name'];
$email    = $_POST['email'];
$subject  = $_POST['subject'];
$msg      = $_POST['msg'];
$d        = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$sub      = "form to mail";
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$mes      = "Subject: ".$subject."\n";
$mes     .= "Message: ".$msg."\n";
$mes     .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes     .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes     .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;

if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($subject) || empty($msg))
{
     echo "   <h3>Sorry all fields are required.</h3>";
}
elseif(!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {
     print "   <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";
}
else
{
     mail($to, $sub, $mes, $headers);
     print "   <h3><center>Thank you ".$name." for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as posiable</center></h3>"; 
}
?>



<div id="valid">
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401"
        alt="Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" height="31" width="88" border="0" ></a>

<img src="images/validcss.gif" alt="Valid CSS" /></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

Shadar · Nov 23, 2005

Hi,

I had some problems with sending mail with PHP a while ago, mine was with sending Japanese characters in the subject line but it sends plain text fine as well

Paste this function after your <?php and before you define the $to variable:

function jisMail($mes, $sub, $to, $from, $rto, $plain){
   //JIS Email function by Shadar
   //www.shadar.co.uk
   //Come by for more useful code snippets

   //Set up header
   $header =  "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
   $header = $header . "From: ".$from."\r\n"; ;
   $header = $header . "Reply-To: ".$rto." \r\n"; ;
   if($plain){
      $header = $header .
         "Content-type: text/plain; charset=JIS\r\n";
   }else{
      $header = $header .
         "Content-type: text/html; charset=JIS\r\n";
   }
   $header = $header . "Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit\r\n";

   //Set the internal language for the multi-byte functions
   mb_language("ja");
   $message = mb_convert_encoding($mes, "JIS", "AUTO");
   $subject = mb_convert_encoding($sub, "JIS","AUTO");
   $subject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject);

   mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
}

Then change your mail function call to read:

jisMail($mes, $sub, $to, $email, $email, true);

and that should be it, I even tested it and it works with me.

Shadar.

b_ball_player9 · Nov 23, 2005

oh cool thanks alot

quick question, i got that 1st part, but where do i paste the second part?

sorry, php is something thats still very new to me

b_ball_player9 · Nov 23, 2005

yea i found where to paste it, but now when i click submit, i get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_language() in /home/cjbcc/public_html/members/b_ball_player9/send.php on line 66

and this is my php now.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="5 Days">
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>Thank you for contacting us</title>

   <link href="file.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file.css" title="swap1" >
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file2.css" title="swap2" >
<script type="text/javascript" src="styleswitcher.js"></script>


  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF">
   <h1>Thank you for contacting us</h1>

   <!-- your html -->

   <div id="container_blue">


 <div id="brown_button">
   <a href="index.html"><img src="images/home_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="red_button">
  <a href="portfolio.html"><img src="images/port_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>


 <div id="blue_button">
   <a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_button.gif" alt="Home" border="0" /></a></div>


<div id="green_button">
  <a href="about.html"><img src="images/about_button.gif" alt="Portfolio" border="0" /></a></div>



<?php

function jisMail($mes, $sub, $to, $from, $rto, $plain){ 
   //JIS Email function by Shadar 
   //www.shadar.co.uk 
   //Come by for more useful code snippets 

   //Set up header 
   $header =  "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
   $header = $header . "From: ".$from."\r\n"; ; 
   $header = $header . "Reply-To: ".$rto." \r\n"; ; 
   if($plain){ 
      $header = $header . 
         "Content-type: text/plain; charset=JIS\r\n"; 
   }else{ 
      $header = $header . 
         "Content-type: text/html; charset=JIS\r\n"; 
   } 
   $header = $header . "Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit\r\n"; 

   //Set the internal language for the multi-byte functions 
   mb_language("ja"); 
   $message = mb_convert_encoding($mes, "JIS", "AUTO"); 
   $subject = mb_convert_encoding($sub, "JIS","AUTO"); 
   $subject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject); 

   mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); 
} 



$to       = "b_ball_player9@hotmail.com"; // change to your email address
$name     = $_POST['name'];
$email    = $_POST['email'];
$subject  = $_POST['subject'];
$msg      = $_POST['msg'];
$d        = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$sub      = "form to mail";
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$mes      = "Subject: ".$subject."\n";
$mes     .= "Message: ".$msg."\n";
$mes     .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes     .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes     .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;

if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($subject) || empty($msg))
{
     echo "   <h3>Sorry all fields are required.</h3>";
}
elseif(!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {
     print "   <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";
}
else
{
     jisMail($mes, $sub, $to, $email, $email, true);
     print "   <h3><center>Thank you ".$name." for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as posiable</center></h3>"; 
}
?>



<div id="valid">
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401"
        alt="Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" height="31" width="88" border="0" ></a>

<img src="images/validcss.gif" alt="Valid CSS" /></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

any ideas?

bodzan · Nov 23, 2005

You have to have special extensions to work with multibyte encodings like JIS (japanese encoding) and since I'm guessing that you don't have it and you don't need it - try deleting these lines:

mb_language("ja");
$message = mb_convert_encoding($mes, "JIS", "AUTO");
$subject = mb_convert_encoding($sub, "JIS","AUTO");
$subject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject);

Because they convert text to multibyte encoding needed for japanese...

b_ball_player9 · Nov 23, 2005

thanks man,

the errors gone now, but still i recive no email,

could this be my computer?

what sort of permisions do i have to set for the page?

andars · Nov 23, 2005

To make sure your computer can even send mail try this:

mail('youremail@domain.com', 'Test', '123');

Shadar · Nov 23, 2005

Also remember to check your spam in Hotmail, if you are testing a lot you will be sending a pile of identical emails quickly. The spam-daemon might not like that, especially as they are coming from your server but the from and reply-to addys point to somewhere else...

@: Thanks, copy and paste of old code is easy but I should take the time to make it fit the problem. :bemused:

bodzan · Nov 23, 2005

You need to have one in order for you to be able to send email through mail() function...

b_ball_player9 · Nov 23, 2005

i am not sure if i have a sendmail program,

can i downlaod this from somewhere?

yea i chekd with gmail and hotmail both with spam filters off

_theworks · Nov 23, 2005

the [man]mail[/man] function has been in php since PHP3... you shouldnt need to download anything. what version of php are you running and what OS you running it on?

also you wana check your php.ini to see if you mail function is setup correctly.. (you never now...)

b_ball_player9 · Nov 24, 2005

oh ok, im running windows XP home, im not sure which php, how do i check

thanks

_theworks · Nov 24, 2005

make a php script with this in it and run it...

<?

phpinfo();

?>

b_ball_player9 · Nov 24, 2005

oh cool, ok this is what i got

PHP Version 4.2.3

System Windows NT 5.1 build 2600
Build Date Oct 5 2002 15:06:37
Server API Apache
Virtual Directory Support enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
Debug Build no
Thread Safety enabled

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