I have a contact form that is not submitting to the table in my database, or sending out automatic emails. Not only is it not doing either of these but it is also not echoing any errors. Could someone check my coding below and help me get this script working fully. Thanks in advance.

PHP Code:

<?php
ob_start();
session_start();
// Include the configuration file for error management and such.
require_once ('includes/config.inc.php'); 
if (isset($_POST['send'])) { // Handle the form.
 require_once ('includes/mysql_connect.php'); // Connect to the database.
 // Check for a name.
 if (eregi ('^[[:alpha:]\.\' \-]{2,40}$', stripslashes(trim($_POST['name'])))) {
  $n = escape_data($_POST['name']);
 } else {
  $n = FALSE;
  echo '<p>Please enter your name!</p>';
 }
 
 // Check for an email address.
 if (eregi ('^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_\.\-]*@[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-z]{2,40}$', stripslashes(trim($_POST['email'])))) {
  $e = escape_data($_POST['email']);
 } else {
  $e = FALSE;
  echo '<p>Please enter a valid email address!</p>';
 }
 // Check for submitted comments.
 if (eregi ('^[[:alnum:]\.\,\;\'\-]{4,600}$', stripslashes(trim($_POST['comments'])))) {
  $c = escape_data($_POST['comments']);
  } else {
   $c = FALSE;
  echo '<p>Please enter your comments!</p>';
 }
 
 if ($n && $e && $c) { // If everything's OK.
 
   // Add the message.
   $query = "INSERT INTO comments (email, name, comments, message_date) VALUES ('$e', '$n', '$c', NOW() )";  
   $result = mysql_query ($query) or trigger_error("Query: $query\n<br />MySQL Error: " . mysql_error());
   if (mysql_affected_rows() == 1) { // If it ran OK.
 
    // Send the email.
    $body = "Thank you for your message $n, we will reply to you at $e about $c.";
    mail($_POST['email'], 'Website Message', $body);
 
    // Send the email.
    $body = "A message has been received from $n regarding $c.  Their email address is $e.";
    mail(my-name@mywebsite.com, 'New Message', $body);
 
    // Finish the page.
    echo '<p>Thank you $n for contacting us about $c! An email has been sent to $e acknowledging our receipt of your comments.</p>';
    include ('includes/foot.html'); // Include the HTML footer.
    exit();    
 
   } else { // If it did not run OK.
    echo '<p>We did not receive your message due to a system error. We apologize for any inconvenience.</p>'; 
   }  
 
 } else { // If one of the data tests failed.
  echo '<p>Please try again.</p>';  
 }
 mysql_close(); // Close the database connection.
} // End of the main Submit conditional.
?>

Is there any particular reason why you are using output buffering? There may be a fatal error before you get to the validation points of the scripts. Try outputing test points (echo 1 after each file include.

Comment out ob_start and have a look at http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php before you use it. Concentrate on one problem at a time: put the email code in a separate little script and see if it sends to a test address. Once that's ok, look at the rest of it. As said above, echo meaningful strings and values at various points -- that should let you know where it's going wrong, then you can more easily sort the problem.

Thanks for the advice guys, but having only learned PHP MYSQL from a Visual QuickPro book I don't know how to do any of the things you have suggested, but I have decided to continue using the original contact form, which does send out emails, and echoes that the message has been received, but does not send to table in database