Hi everyone.
This is my first post, I have searched other posts, forums and google to no avail.
My online contact form does not work. It says "message sent" but I never receive he email.
I have tried over 10 different forms and php scripts, 2 of the scripts worked once, but never again, I have built my own and downloaded many.
I use dreamweaver and my hosting company is IXwebhosting, so I have full PHP support.

So I am now using a very simple script to try and get t working before I implement it on my clients page. It’s the FormToEmail.php script. Very simple...
<?php

/*

Thank you for choosing FormToEmail by FormToEmail.com

Version 2.4 June 21st 2008

COPYRIGHT FormToEmail.com 2003 - 2008

You are not permitted to sell this script, but you can use it, copy it or distribute it, providing that you do not delete this copyright notice, and you do not remove any reference or links to FormToEmail.com

For support, please visit: http://formtoemail.com/support/

You can get the Pro version of this script here: http://formtoemail.com/formtoemail_pro_version.php
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FormToEmail-Pro (Pro version) Features:

Check for required fields.
Attach file uploads.
Upload files to the server.
reCAPTCHA support.
Check for a set cookie.
HTML output option.
CSV output to attachment or file.
Autoresponder (with file attachment).
Show sender's IP address.
Block IP addresses.
Block web addresses or rude words.
Block gibberish (MldMtrPAgZq etc).
Block gobbledegook characters (Å ð ç etc).
Set encoding (utf-8 etc).
Ignore fields.
Sort fields.
Auto redirect to "Thank You" page.
No branding.
Free upgrades for life.

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FormToEmail DESCRIPTION

FormToEmail is a contact-form processing script written in PHP. It allows you to place a form on your website which your visitors can fill out and send to you. The contents of the form are sent to the email address (or addresses) which you specify below. The form allows your visitors to enter their name, email address and comments. The script will not allow a blank form to be sent.

Your visitors (and nasty spambots!) cannot see your email address. The script cannot be hijacked by spammers.

When the form is sent, your visitor will get a confirmation of this on the screen, and will be given a link to continue to your homepage, or other page if you specify it.

Should you need the facility, you can add additional fields to your form, which this script will also process without making any additional changes to the script. You can also use it to process other forms. The script will handle the "POST" or "GET" methods. It will also handle multiple select inputs and multiple check box inputs. If using these, you must name the field as an array using square brackets, like so: <select name="fruit[]" multiple>. The same goes for check boxes if you are using more than one with the same name, like so: <input type="checkbox" name="fruit[]" value="apple">Apple<input type="checkbox" name="fruit[]" value="orange">Orange<input type="checkbox" name="fruit[]" value="banana">Banana

** PLEASE NOTE ** If you are using the script to process your own forms (or older FormToEmail forms) you must ensure that the email field is named correctly in your form, thus: <input type="text" name="email" etc>. Note the lower case "email". If you don't do this, you won't be able to see who the email is from and the script won't be able to check the validity of the email. If you are using the form code below, you don't need to check for this.

This is a PHP script. In order for it to run, you must have PHP (version 4.1.0 or later) on your webhosting account, and have the PHP mail() function enabled and working. If you are not sure about this, please ask your webhost about it.

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Put the form on your webpage
Step 2: Enter your email address and (optional) continue link below
Step 3: Upload the files to your webspace

Step 1:

To put the form on your webpage, copy the code below as it is, and paste it into your webpage:

<form action="FormToEmail.php" method="post">
<table border="0" bgcolor="#ececec" cellspacing="5">
<tr><td>Name</td><td><input type="text" size="30" name="name"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email address</td><td><input type="text" size="30" name="email"></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="30"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type="submit" value="Send"><font face="arial" size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://FormToEmail.com">Form Mail</a> by FormToEmail.com</font></td></tr>
</table>
</form>

Step 2:

Enter your email address.

Enter the email address below to send the contents of the form to. You can enter more than one email address separated by commas, like so: $my_email = "info@example.com"; or $my_email = "bob@example.com,sales@example.co.uk,jane@example. com";

*/

$my_email = "nathan@askrevill.com";

/*

Enter the continue link to offer the user after the form is sent. If you do not change this, your visitor will be given a continue link to your homepage.

If you do change it, remove the "/" symbol below and replace with the name of the page to link to, eg: "mypage.htm" or "http://www.elsewhere.com/page.htm"

*/

$continue = "/";

/*

Step 3:

Save this file (FormToEmail.php) and upload it together with your webpage containing the form to your webspace. IMPORTANT - The file name is case sensitive! You must save it exactly as it is named above!

THAT'S IT, FINISHED!

You do not need to make any changes below this line.

*/

$errors = array();

// Remove $_COOKIE elements from $_REQUEST.

if(count($_COOKIE)){foreach(array_keys($_COOKIE) as $value){unset($_REQUEST[$value]);}}

// Validate email field.

if(isset($_REQUEST['email']) && !empty($_REQUEST['email']))
{

$_REQUEST['email'] = trim($_REQUEST['email']);

if(substr_count($_REQUEST['email'],"@") != 1 || stristr($_REQUEST['email']," ")){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_email = explode("@",$_REQUEST['email']);if(empty($exploded_email[0]) || strlen($exploded_email[0]) > 64 || empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],".") == 0){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_domain = explode(".",$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array("",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i',$value)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid"; break;}}}}}}

}

// Check referrer is from same site.

if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = "You must enable referrer logging to use the form";}

// Check for a blank form.

function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value)
{

global $set;

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_v alue)){$set = 1;}}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

}

}

recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST);

if(!$set){$errors[] = "You cannot send a blank form";}

unset($set);

// Display any errors and exit if errors exist.

if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print "$value<br>";} exit;}

if(!defined("PHP_EOL")){define("PHP_EOL", strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == "WIN") ? "\r\n" : "\n");}

// Build message.

function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_o utput)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_out put = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$ message_output .= str_replace("_"," ",ucfirst($key)).": ".build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$mes sage_output .= build_message($value).", ";}}}}return rtrim($message_output,", ");}

$message = build_message($_REQUEST);

$message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL."-- ".PHP_EOL."Thank you for using FormToEmail from http://FormToEmail.com";

$message = stripslashes($message);

$subject = "FormToEmail Comments";

$subject = stripslashes($subject);

$from_name = "";

if(isset($_REQUEST['name']) && !empty($_REQUEST['name'])){$from_name = stripslashes($_REQUEST['name']);}

$headers = "From: {$from_name} <{$_REQUEST['email']}>";

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>
<title>Form To Email PHP script from FormToEmail.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">

<div>
<center>
<b>Thank you <?php if(isset($_REQUEST['name'])){print stripslashes($_REQUEST['name']);} ?></b>
<br>Your message has been sent
<p><a href="<?php print $continue; ?>">Click here to continue</a></p>
<p><b>FormToEmail</b> by <a href="http://FormToEmail.com">FormToEmail.com</a></p>
</center>
</div>

</body>
</html>
I have also created the html file and called it a.htm, it can be found here www.askrevill.com/a.htm I want it sending to my email - nathan@askrevill.com, but i never recieve email now, but i did recieve one yesturday.
So why does it not work? is it "my" code or the **** IX server, a setting i am missing or just a complete mystery? I have spent so many hours on this and cannot get it to work. I also called IX and they said they will check the logs, but it should work.
Any help gratefully received.
Nathan.

Originally Posted by askrevill

My online contact form does not work. It says "message sent" but I never receive he email.
I have tried over 10 different forms and php scripts, 2 of the scripts worked once, but never again, I have built my own and downloaded many.

Under these circumstances it is quite obvious that the problem is not in php itself. If you have ssh access to your server look into your /var/log/maillog (best of all with tail -f /var/log/maillog) or get the maillog record in other way. There may be one of a lot of different problems starting with your message being not sent for some reason and ending with your message being recognized as spam on your mail server.

First of all you should check whether your message is being sent. This is denoted with "Status=2.0.0 Sent" in your maillog. If it is not sent you better post the error message here. If it is sent check your mail server "Spam" or "Suspicios" folder.

Are you sure it's not being filtered out by your SPAM filter? Sometimes if you don't send an additional parameter after the headers, some email clients will filter out the results. Try making the line that reads:

PHP Code:

$headers = "From: {$from_name} <{$_REQUEST['email']}>"; 


Read:

PHP Code:

$headers = "From: {$from_name} <{$_REQUEST['email']}>";
$additional = "-fnathan@askrevill.com"; 


Then, modify the line that reads:

PHP Code:

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers); 


So that it reads:

PHP Code:

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers,$additional); 


I don't remember the exact reason this works, but it has been the only way I have been able to get certain webservers to send email to certain email clients. It is worth a shot anyway...

***EDIT***
Mtishetsky, you dog, you got there right before me

Hi wayfarer07

I changed what you suggested above, and i still do not recieve an email?

Its so strange to me that i have recieved one email from this form, but then no more?

And mtishetsky thanks for confirming what I and my friends, work pals thought, that its not the PHP. I haveLOOKED FOR THE ssh access, but do not think i have access to this. I think this is what the teckies at IX are looking into. This was like 6 hours ago, so may not get an answer for another 6 hours.

I have also looked into if the emails are getting spammed, but as far as i can see, i have 2 settings, whitelist and black list. I will look deeper into this. I have also turned off spam controll in outlook.

I will keep you updated WHEN i resolve this.

Thanks,

Nathan

Ok,

I have sorted it now, After spending more time than i want to reviel trying to get this working, a friend said "Use ASP" so did a quick search, found http://nuts4asp.com/index.asp, anyway, it took me minutes and now it works. ASP + Jmail works on IX web hosting. They still say that the PHP should work!

Thanks for your pointers.

Nathan