PHP form keeps loading when clicking submit

wjordan1987

When clicking submit all it does is load and load etc... Any help would be appreciated. Here is my source code.

<?php

//Subject and Email Variables

$emailSubject = 'Crazy PHP Scripting!';
$webMaster = 'webmaster@domain.tld';

//Gathering Data Variables

$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$phoneField = $_POST['phone'];
$budgetField = $_POST['budget'];
$travelersField = $_POST['travelers'];
$commentsField = $_POST['comments'];
$newsletterField = $_POST['newsletter'];

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Email: $email <br>
Name: $name <br>
Phone: $phone <br>
Budget: $budget <br>
Number of Travelers: $travelers <br>
Comments: $comments <br>
Newsletter: $newsletter <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .="Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

//Results rendered as HTML

$theResults = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title>JakesWorks - travel made easy-Homepage</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-color: #f1f1f1;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-style: normal;
	line-height: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<div>
  <div align="left">Thank you for your interest! Your email will be answered very soon!</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
EOD;
echo "$theResults";	

?>

bpat1434

My guess would be you don't have something configured properly with the [man]mail/man function.

At the very top of your script, add these two lines:

<?php

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_level', E_ALL | E_STRICT);

[indent]Note: If you're still running php4, use: ini_set('error_level', E_ALL);[/indent]

Then try it again and see if any errors show up.

wjordan1987

I can't get any errors to display because when I click submit it doesn't do anything. All it does it load continuously.

bpat1434

Interesting... you should get a few errors, mainly those of the type "Undefined variable" when you try to define the $body variable... The variable names you use aren't what you declared above in the script....

wjordan1987

I think I found out the problem. I'm using WampServer, and it does not come with a mail server. I understand how to set it up, but I'm trying to find ways to find out the smtp server name of my ISP without having to call them.

Pikachu2000

wjordan1987;10887933 wrote:
I think I found out the problem. I'm using WampServer, and it does not come with a mail server. I understand how to set it up, but I'm trying to find ways to find out the smtp server name of my ISP without having to call them.

Look at the settings in your email client (assuming you don't exclusively use a web interface), or go to their homepage and look for instructions on how to set up an email client.

wjordan1987

I use Hotmail. Is there anything I can do with that? Or do I need something else?

Pikachu2000

It depends on what they allow. I don't know what type of account you have with them, but my initial reaction is you probably need to use someone else to relay mail through.

wjordan1987

Could you recommend a good email client?

Pikachu2000

wjordan1987;10887985 wrote:
Could you recommend a good email client?

It's not the client that's the issue here. You need a mail hosting provider that will allow relay, or use your website hosting providers mail servers. Is this site hosted with a reputable provider? Most of them allow outgoing mail from their hosting customers' sites.

efficacious

generally if php cannot send mail it will return with an error.

I'm guessing your problem could very well lie with a loop or something that is not correct logic.

efficacious

In my exp i've only ever had continous loading when a loops logic was off.

Pikachu2000

efficacious;10887993 wrote:
In my exp i've only ever had continous loading when a loops logic was off.

I concur. I just pasted it into ZDE, and it gave an UNEXPECTED END. I stripped all the whitespace out of the file, and that took care of that.

There is a lot of whitespace in the file; at the end of every line, and in between lines. Strip it out and try again.

shaty002

OK, not sure if this is resolved or not, but I got the same issue. No errors, no nothing, just the form would reload. I contacted my hosting provider and they told me that they have the mail() disabled. So, have to use SMTP authenticated mail. Still trying to figure that out!

bpat1434

Look at Swift Mailer or PHPMail as two really good SMTP type of mail scripts