i am trying to make a contact page, but my code isn't working.

<?
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = $_POST['subject']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$message = $_POST['message']; 

if (!$name) { 
echo "Please fill in the name field."; 
die;
} elseif (!$email) { 
echo "Please fill in the email field."; 
die;
} elseif (!$subject) { 
echo "Please fill in the subject field."; 
die;
} elseif (!$message) { 
echo "Please fill in the message field."; 
die;
} else { mail("hilltown.vids@gmail.com", $subject, $message, "From: $email\n$name" ); 
echo "Email sent successfully.";
}
?>

How exactly is it "not working"?

You are inquiring in your script sample if any of the givien strings equal false. The strings will not equal false because you copied the values of each from each $_POST. If they are empty, they will still return true.

Use: if (trim($name) != '') instead.

i took out the verification part for right now, i just need the main code to work, so now i have:

PHP Code:

<?
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

mail("hilltown.vids@gmail.com", $subject, $message, "From: $email\n$name"); 
echo "Email sent successfully.";
?>

by not working i mean that i am not receiving any emails when i use it

You might need to check and setup the php.ini to connect to your mail service provider.

You should check the return value of your mail function.


You may also wanna take a look in your BULK or SPAM forlders.

its returning false

and im on a free host so i dont have access to php.ini

Free hosts usually have mail() disabled.

is there any other way then?

you could connect to an SMTP server with PHP, But unless you have access to an SMTP server you wont be able to use this option either.