PHP Help

slk-85

I have a bit of programming knowledge, but not much, I was trying to create a PHP form, that when you clicked send, it sent the details that the person had entered in the form to my email address. Can anyone help as to why it is not working? p.s. I have used test email addresses in this code only, i use really addresses when testing.

form code im using:

<form action="contact.php" method="post">
	<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 5pt"><br>
	</span><b><font size="3">How Many Years have we been in Business?</font><font size="2"> </font></b>
	<br>
	<span style="font-size: 5pt">
	<br>
	</span>
	<font size="2"><b>Answer:</b>
    </font><font size="1">
    <input type="text" name="cf_answer" size="6"></font><font size="2">
	years<br>
    </font><font style="font-size: 5pt">
	<br>
    </font><font size="2">

Your name:
</font><font size="1">
<input type="text" name="cf_name" size="24"></font><font size="2">&nbsp; 
Company Name:
</font>
<input type="text" name="cf_company" size="23"><br>
<font style="font-size: 5pt">
<br>
</font>
<font size="2">
Email:
</font>
<input type="text" name="cf_email" size="63"><font size="2">
<br>
<br>
</font><b>
<font size="3">
Which Products/Services could we<br>
assist you with?</font><font size="2"><br>
</font>
</b><font style="font-size: 5pt"><br>
</font> 
<font size="3">
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="VehicleGraphics" style="font-weight: 700"></font><b><font size="2"> 
Vehicle Graphics&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b><font size="3">
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="GraphicDesign" style="font-weight: 700"><b><font size="2"> 
Graphic Design&nbsp;</font></b>
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Signage" style="font-weight: 700"><b><font size="2"> 
Signage&nbsp;</font></b>
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="wrapping" style="font-weight: 700"><b><font size="2"> 
Vehicle Wrapping<br></font></b>
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Stickers" style="font-weight: 700"><b><font size="2"> 
Stickers/Labels&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b>
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="banners" style="font-weight: 700"><b><font size="2"> 
Banners/Posters/WallArt</font></b></font><b><font size="2"><br>
</font><font size="1">
<br>
</font><font size="2">


<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form>

php code im using:

<html><body>

<?php
$field_answer = $_POST['cf_answer'];
$field_name = $_POST['cf_name'];
$field_company = $_POST['cf_company'];
$field_email = $_POST['cf_email'];

foreach($_POST['check'] as $value) {
    $check_boxes .= $value." ";
}

$mail_to = 'test@test.com';
$mail_subject = 'Competition Entry '.$field_name;

$body_message = 'Answer: '.$field_answer."\n";
$body_message .= 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'Company: '.$field_company."\n";
$body_message .= 'Email: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= "Products and Services: ".$check_boxes;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		message('We have received your entry');
		window.location = '';
	</script>

<?php
}
else { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to test@test.com');
		window.location = '';
	</script>
<?php
}
?>


</body>
</html>

123

An error message or the kind of output you get when trying to send an email will be more helpful here.

If your question is regarding why the javascript pop-up message appears when you try to send an email, you could try using the isset() function to test your condition like in the example below

if (isset($mail_status)) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
message('We have received your entry');
window.location = '';
</script>

<?php
}
else { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to test@test.com');
window.location = '';
</script>
<?php
}

Good luck
🙂

slk-85

Sorry

When you press the send button the php file appears in the browser window

I just have an html file with the form in it and a PHP file, do I need more?

bradgrafelman

What do you mean by "the php file appears in the browser window" ?

slk-85

I have the html and php file uploaded to my website for testing, when I click on the send button all the code I have im my contact.php file is displayed in the brower window

bradgrafelman

That would suggest that PHP is not installed on your webserver, or else your webserver has not been properly configured to use PHP for files ending with the ".php" file extension.

slk-85

I have just tested it in the IE browser and it brings you through to the screen for the message failing, so it doesnt bring up the code, but the message is failing to send to my email address, any ideas?

bradgrafelman

I'm confused as to what changed between your previous post and your latest. Is your PHP code now being executed? (Are you sure?)

If you're getting the failed message, then that means [man]mail/man returned FALSE. However, it shouldn't ever return FALSE without generating some sort of PHP error message. Do you have display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL?

slk-85

In IE it goes through saying its a sucess, and redirects to the correct page, but I dont get the email (my web hoster is fixing that as they say php is not supported liked to said before) in Google Chrome browser the code that is in the php file is displayed in the browser so this may be a case of php not being supported by my web hoster. I think you have solved the problem for me, I just have to wait on the web hosting people to update my hosting package to support php.

many thanks