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**Gilligan** · 05-30-2008, 05:53 PM

I wrote a contact form for a guy, and its not working. Can someone see why?? Because I can't

Code:

<form name="contact" method="post" action="send.php">
   <table width="100%" border="0">
         <tr>
       <td>E-Mail:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="email"  /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Subject:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="subject" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Message:</td>
       <td><textarea name="message" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea></td>
     </tr>
    <tr> <td></td><td><input type="submit" value="Send E-Mail" /></td></tr>
   </table>   </form>

and the send.php page

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../css/style.css" />
<title>Gaming Info :: Contact Us</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style2 {
    font-size: 18px
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body><div id="header"></div>
<div id="nav">
  <ul>
 <li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li> 
   <li><a href="../reviews">Reviews</a></li>
   <li><a href="../dates">Release Dates</a></li>
   <li><a href="../contact">Contact Us</a></li>
 
 
  </ul>
</div>

<div id="content">
 <div class="left-col"> <p class="style1 style2"><strong>Contact Us</strong></p>
   
  <?php 
  
if(empty($email) || empty($message) || empty($subject) || !strstr($email,"@") || !strstr($email,".")) {
echo '<p class="error">Please fill in all fields correctly.</p>';
die ('  <form name="contact" method="post" action="send.php">
   <table width="100%" border="0">
         <tr>
       <td>E-Mail:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="email"  /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Subject:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="subject" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Message:</td>
       <td><textarea name="message" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea></td>
     </tr>
    <tr> <td></td><td><input type="submit" value="Send E-Mail" /></td></tr>
   </table>   </form></div>
   <div class="right-col"> <p class="style1">Right</p>
     <p class="style1">Column</p>
     <p class="style1">Stuff </p>
     <p class="style1">Goes </p>
     <p class="style1">Here</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p></div>
  <br style="clear:both" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
');

}
      
$from = "From: $email\r\n";
mail("email@host.co.uk", $subject, $message, $from); 
?>


  <p>Thank you, your E-Mail has been sent.</p>
  
  </div>
   <div class="right-col"> <p class="style1">Right</p>
     <p class="style1">Column</p>
     <p class="style1">Stuff </p>
     <p class="style1">Goes </p>
     <p class="style1">Here</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p class="style1">?</p>
     <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p></div>
 <div align="center"><br style="clear:both" />
     Design by <a href="http://www.sgilligan.co.uk">SGilligan.co.uk</a></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

if you want to test. You have to change the e-mail in the script

Thanks

**vangogh** · 05-30-2008, 08:48 PM

It looks ok to me too. Does the send.php page load and it's just not sending the email or does it never get to send.php? What exactly happens when you submit the form.

You might try using ids instead of names. I'm not sure it will matter, but you should be using ids instead of names anyway so why not.

**Gilligan** · 05-31-2008, 07:16 AM

What do you mean IDs instead of names?

What happens is you click 'Send E-Mail' and send.php loads, it says message sent (or whatever).

I remember trying this on my server and it worked, I've got PHP 5, and this guy has PHP 4. Maybe that's the problem?

**kbfirebreather** · 05-31-2008, 11:24 AM

What exactly isn't working? Did they check the junk mail folder?

**Gilligan** · 05-31-2008, 12:33 PM

I used my e-mail to test.

On their server no e-mail is received

On my server (exact same code) the e-mail is received.

So it must be the PHP version or something

I also cleaned up my code a lot and no change

**Arenlor** · 05-31-2008, 02:31 PM

Try removing the \r from $from (or really try removing \r\n since it's only needed to separate extra headers) if removing \r or \r\n doesn't work try removing $from completely.

**upstarter** · 05-31-2008, 04:13 PM

The first thing I'd do would be to make sure that the person's box has a mail server running and that PHP is configured to use it.

**Gilligan** · 05-31-2008, 06:02 PM

When I test my e-mail on their server it doesn't work.
When I test my e-mail on my server it does work.

So it can't be ^that

Tried ^^that, no luck

**VirtuosiMedia** · 05-31-2008, 06:28 PM

Can you upload a phpinfo() script to their site and see if it is enabled to even send mail?

**Gilligan** · 06:38 PM

See for yourself

http://www.sgilligan.co.uk/gaminginfo/info.html

^ I copied and pasted the source from phpinfo() on their server

**VirtuosiMedia** · 05-31-2008, 06:35 PM

Just a word of warning, I wouldn't post that online for security purposes...

**Gilligan** · 05-31-2008, 06:38 PM

edited, and cropped the page for just the sendmail part

**Arenlor** · 05-31-2008, 08:00 PM

sendmail doesn't seem to be installed. Do you know what they are running (Ubuntu, Slackware, CentOS, Windows)? If it's an apt enabled OS ask them to 'sudo apt-get install sendmail' I think you 'YUM sendmail' for YUM enabled OS's. After that ask them to 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to restart the apache2 server (apache is just apache, not sure about other servers) and see if you can get it to work. Also see if turning on errors gives you any information: error_reporting(E_ALL);