PHP email form

[CRDesign]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to PHP still, so bear with me if this is an obvious mistake, but the PHP e-mail form I created won't send the information through to me, the recipient. From the website all the forms are set up and work, the error messages work, and it successfully sends the message...except I never get it.

Below is the PHP code written:

<?php

$emailSubject = 'contact';
$webMaster = '[e-mail]' ;

if(!$_POST) exit;

$email = $_POST['email'];


//$error[] = preg_match('/\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/i', $_POST['email']) ? '' : 'INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS';
if(!eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*" ."@"."([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+"."\\.[a-z]{2,}"."$",$email )){
	$error.="Invalid email address entered";
	$errors=1;
}
if($errors==1) echo $error;
else{
	$values = array ('name','email','message');
	$required = array('name','email','message');

$your_email = "[e-mail]";
$email_subject = "New Message: ".$_POST['subject'];
$email_content = "new message:\n";

foreach($values as $key => $value){
  if(in_array($value,$required)){
	if ($key != 'subject' && $key != 'company') {
	  if( empty($_POST[$value]) ) { echo 'PLEASE FILL IN REQUIRED FIELDS'; exit; }
	}
	$email_content .= $value.': '.$_POST[$value]."\n";
  }
}

if(@mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
	echo 'Your message has been successfully sent! I will get back to you as soon as possible.'; 
} else {
	echo 'ERROR!';
}
}
?>

And this is the accompanying HTML code written:

<form action="contact.php" method="post" id="contactform">
            <ol>
              <li>
                <label for="name">your name <span class="red">*</span></label>
                <input id="name" name="name" class="text" />
              </li>
              <li>
                <label for="email">Your email <span class="red">*</span></label>
                <input id="email" name="email" class="text" />
              </li>
              <li>
                <label for="company">Company Name</label>
                <input id="company" name="company" class="text" />
              </li>
              <li>
                <label for="subject">Subject</label>
                <input id="subject" name="subject" class="text" />
              </li>
              <li>
                <label for="message">message <span class="red">*</span></label>
                <textarea id="message" name="message" rows="6" cols="50"></textarea>
              </li>
              <li class="buttons">
                <input type="image" name="imageField" id="imageField" src="images/btn_send_message.gif" />
                <a href="https://www.sitelock.com/verify.php?site=www.cr-portfolio.com" target="_blank"><img id="sl_shield_image" alt="SiteLock" title="SiteLock" border="0" hspace="50"src="http://shield.sitelock.com/shield/www.cr-portfolio.com" oncontextmenu="alert('Copyright 2009 SITELOCK.COM. All rights reserved.');return false;"/></a>
              </li>
            </ol>
          </form>

Thanks in advance. I've been going in circles for ages trying to figure this out on my own, going through FAQ's, forums, and anything else I could find on the internet with no success. If desired you can see it live HERE.

[djjjozsi]

You should see php.net and its examples about mail() function. You should set mail headers. If those examples failed to send the example messages, try to get help from your support / server administrator instead.

In your code, $email = $_POST['email']; is unused, you may want to concate to the email?
$your_email is a default value, are you sure you have set to your current email address?
About the @ operator: you should not use it in your programs, it is a false programming technique to hide the error messages while you're testing!

Edit: in these days you should use some kind of a captcha to stop euatomated scripts and block spammers.

In you email validation you've used eregi which is a deprecated function.
quote from the manual:

This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.

i've tried your code, it works without a problem.

[DaveRandom]

http://pear.php.net/package/Mail

MUCH better (although slightly more complicated) than just using mail(). You can send via SMTP, which goes a long way to preventing messages being eaten by spam filters, which is probably what happened to your original message.

[bradgrafelman]

DaveRandom wrote:

MUCH better (although slightly more complicated) than just using mail(). You can send via SMTP

Er... how else do you think the built-in mail() function sends e-mail? Carrier pigeon?

[DaveRandom]

wrote:

Er... how else do you think the built-in mail() function sends e-mail? Carrier pigeon?

Lol! It is a shame RFC 1149 was never implemented...

I meant you can do SMTP auth/relay via a legitimate server much more easily.