[RESOLVED] Basic Contact Form Help

[starcloud]

PHP problem: Contact form validates fields but doesn't send the email upon submit.

If anyone can help with this I'd much appreciate it. Send a private message and I will forward the PHP file.

Oh yeah, I already ran a PHP test on my ISP directory and it returned the typical active state. ISP is currently supporting PHP 4.4.1 and MySQL 4.1.12.

PLEASE NOTE I REMOVED CLIENTS WEBSITE INCODE BELOW:

<?
// This is the begiinning of the PHP code

$name = $POST['name'];
$address = $POST['address'];
$state = $POST['state'];
$city = $POST['city'];
$zip = $POST['zip'];
$country = $POST['country'];
$phone = $POST['phone'];
$email = $POST['email'];
$comments = $POST['comments'];
$fax = $POST['fax'];
$error_msg = "";
$msg = "";

if(!$name){
$error_msg .= "Your name \n";
}
if($name){
$msg .= "Name: \t $name \n";
}

if($city){
$msg .= "City: \t $city \n";
}

if($country){
$msg .= "Country: \t $country \n";
}

if($phone){
$msg .= "Phone: \t $phone \n";
}

if(!$email){
$error_msg .= "Your email \n";
}
if($email){
if(!eregi("^{[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}",} $email)){
echo "\n<br>That is not a valid email address. Please <a href=\"javascript:history.back()\">return</a> to the previous page and try again.\n<br>";
exit;
}
$msg .= "Email: \t $email \n";
}
if($subject){
$msg .= "Subject: \t $subject \n";
}

if($comments){
$msg .= "Comments: \t $comments \n";
}
$sender_email="";

if(!isset($name)){
if($name == ""){
$sender_name="Web Customer";
}
}else{
$sender_name=$name;
}
if(!isset($email)){
if($email == ""){
$sender_email="[e-mail]";
}
}else{
$sender_email=$email;
}
if($error_msg != ""){
echo "You didn't fill in these required fields:<br>"
.nl2br($error_msg) .'<br>Please <a href="javascript:history.back()">return</a> to the previous page and try again.';
exit;
}
$mailheaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "From: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $sender_email <$sender_email>\r\n";
mail("[e-mail]","My Website Contact or Feedback",stripslashes($msg), $mailheaders);
header("Location: http://www.mywebsite.com/thankyou.html"); / Redirect browser /
//This is the end of the PHP code
?>

[etully]

It's better if you post here in the forum so that everyone can learn from it. Post the smallest possible example from your code that shows us what isn't working.

[starcloud]

thnaks for looking, the code has been posted

[bpat1434]

Have you checked the Junk mail or SPAM folders?

[etully]

I ran your code and it worked fine. The email was delivered. To troubleshoot the problem, I would comment out the header command at the bottom of your script (just for testing purposes) and then put in some print statements that show $msg and $mailheaders to see what the mail() command is working with.

Also, you should make a PHP script with just one line in it that sends an email like this:

mail("[e-mail]", "This is the subject line",
" ","From:[e-mail]\nReply-To:[e-mail]\n\n
This is the body of the message.");

Test that PHP. If you don't get the email, then talk to your Web Hosting Service to find out if PHP is connected to Sendmail correctly.

[etully]

Doh! Nice call bpat. I bet it's in a spam filter!

[starcloud]

etully wrote:

I ran your code and it worked fine. The email was delivered. To troubleshoot the problem, I would comment out the header command at the bottom of your script (just for testing purposes) and then put in some print statements that show $msg and $mailheaders to see what the mail() command is working with.

Also, you should make a PHP script with just one line in it that sends an email like this:

mail("[e-mail]", "This is the subject line",
" ","From:[e-mail]\nReply-To:[e-mail]\n\n
This is the body of the message.");

Test that PHP. If you don't get the email, then talk to your Web Hosting Service to find out if PHP is connected to Sendmail correctly.

thanks for testing and comments I'll try your feed back!

[starcloud]

will do, thanks for the links!