Email form not sending. But mailtest.php is.

Hey all, New to the forum, So hello to all.

I am having some issues with my mail form not sending. I added a test email page with this code and it worked, Here is the code that worked.

mailtest.php
<?php
mail('MYEMAIL@Domain.com','Test mail','The mail function is working!');
echo 'Mail sent!';
?>

But when I add this code to my page and rename the page, the email and info doesnt get sent.

Here is my code. (inserted in html page but renamed apply.php)

<?php
// OPTIONS - PLEASE CONFIGURE THESE BEFORE USE!

$yourEmail = "MYEMAIL@Domain.com"; // (this is switched to my email) the email address you wish to receive these mails through
$yourWebsite = "My Website"; // the name of your website
$maxPoints = 4; // max points a person can hit before it refuses to submit - recommend 4


function isBot() {
$bots = array("Indy", "Blaiz", "Java", "libwww-perl", "Python", "OutfoxBot", "User-Agent", "PycURL", "AlphaServer", "T8Abot", "Syntryx", "WinHttp", "WebBandit", "nicebot");
$isBot = false;

foreach ($bots as $bot)
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $bot) !== false)
$isBot = true;

if (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) || $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] == " ")
$isBot = true;

return $isBot;
}

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {
if (isBot())
exit("Bots not allowed.</p>");

function clean($data) {
$data = trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($data)));
return $data;
}

// lets check a few things - not enough to trigger an error on their own, but worth assigning a spam score..
// score quickly adds up therefore allowing genuine users with 'accidental' score through but cutting out real spam :)
$points = (int)0;

$badwords = array("adult", "beastial", "bestial", "blowjob", "clit", "cum", "cunilingus", "cunillingus", "cunnilingus", "****", "ejaculate", "***", "felatio", "fellatio", "****", "fuk", "fuks", "gangbang", "gangbanged", "gangbangs", "hotsex", "hardcode", "jism", "jiz", "orgasim", "orgasims", "orgasm", "orgasms", "phonesex", "phuk", "phuq", "porn", "pussies", "pussy", "spunk", "xxx", "viagra", "phentermine", "tramadol", "adipex", "advai", "alprazolam", "ambien", "ambian", "amoxicillin", "antivert", "blackjack", "backgammon", "texas", "holdem", "poker", "carisoprodol", "ciara", "ciprofloxacin", "debt", "dating", "porn", "link=", "voyeur");
$exploits = array("content-type", "bcc:", "cc:", "document.cookie", "onclick", "onload", "javascript");

foreach ($badwords as $word)
if (strpos($_POST['comments'], $word) !== false)
$points += 2;

foreach ($exploits as $exploit)
if (strpos($_POST['comments'], $exploit) !== false)
$points += 2;

if (strpos($_POST['comments'], "http://") === true || strpos($_POST['comments'], "www.") === true)
$points += 2;
if (isset($_POST['nojs']))
$points += 1;
if (preg_match("/(<.*>)/i", $_POST['comments']))
$points += 2;
if (strlen($_POST['name']) < 3)
$points += 1;
if (strlen($_POST['comments']) < 15 || strlen($_POST['comments'] > 1500))
$points += 2;
// end score assignments

if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['comments'])) {
$error_msg .= "Name, e-mail and comments are required fields. \n";
} elseif (strlen($_POST['name']) > 15) {
$error_msg .= "The name field is limited at 15 characters. Your first name or nickname will do! \n";
} elseif (!ereg("^[A-Za-z' -]*$", $_POST['name'])) {
$error_msg .= "The name field must not contain special characters. \n";
} elseif (!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$",strtolower($_POST['email']))) {
$error_msg .= "That is not a valid e-mail address. \n";
} elseif (!empty($_POST['url']) && !preg_match('/^(http|https):\/\/(([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)(\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+)(:(\d+))?\/?/i', $_POST['url']))
$error_msg .= "Invalid website url.";

if ($error_msg == NULL && $points <= $maxPoints) {
$subject = "Automatic Form Email";

$message = "You received this e-mail message through your website: \n\n";
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
$message .= ucwords($key) . ": $val \r\n";
}
$message .= 'IP: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\r\n";
$message .= 'Browser: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."\r\n";
$message .= 'Points: '.$points;

if (strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], "Win")) {
$headers = "From: $yourEmail \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$_POST['email']}";
} else {
$headers = "From: $yourWebsite <$yourEmail> \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$_POST['email']}";
}

if (mail($yourEmail,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
echo '<p>Your mail was successfully sent.</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Your mail could not be sent this time.</p>';
}
}
}
function get_data($var) {
if (isset($_POST[$var]))
echo htmlspecialchars($_POST[$var]);
}
if ($error_msg != NULL) {
echo '<p><strong style="color: red;">ERROR:</strong><br />';
echo nl2br($error_msg) . "</p>";
}
?>


<form action="apply.php" method="post" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
<noscript>
<p><input type="hidden" name="nojs" id="nojs" /></p>
</noscript>
<p>
<label for="name">Name:</label><br />
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php get_data("name"); ?>" size="30"/></p>
<p>
<label for="email">E-mail:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php get_data("email"); ?>" size="30" /><br />
</p>
<p>
<label for="name">Number:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="number" id="number" value="<?php get_data("number"); ?>" /></p>
<p>
<label for="url">Position you are applying for:</label><br />
<select name="position" id="position" >
<option selected="selected">accounting+finance</option>
<option>admin / office</option>
<option>arch / engineering</option>
<option>art / media / design</option>
<option>biotech / science</option>
<option>business / mgmt</option>
<option>customer service</option>
<option>education</option>
<option>food / bev / hosp</option>
<option>general labor</option>
<option>government</option>
<option>human resources</option>
<option>internet engineers</option>
<option>legal / paralegal</option>
<option>manufacturing</option>
<option>marketing / pr / ad</option>
<option>medical / health</option>
<option>nonprofit sector</option>
<option>real estate</option>
<option>retail / wholesale</option>
<option>sales / biz dev</option>
<option>salon / spa / fitness</option>
<option>security</option>
<option>skilled trade / craft</option>
<option>software / qa / dba</option>
<option>systems / network</option>
<option>technical support</option>
<option>transport</option>
<option>tv / film / video</option>
<option>web / info design</option>
<option>writing / editing</option>
</select></p>
<p>
<label for="location">Upload your resume:</label><br />
<span class="style1">(Must be in .doc, .rtf, .txt or
.pdf format)</span><br />
<input type="file" name="upload" size="30"/><br />
</p>
<p>
<label for="name">Credit Score:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="score" id="score" value="<?php get_data("score"); ?>" size="30"/></p>
<h3 class="style2" style="width: 224px">Your application will not be
accepted and marked as incomplete without your real credit score. To obtain
your credit score free Click on the banner below.</h3>
<p>
<img alt="" height="27" src="credit.png" width="288" /></p>
<p>

<label for="comments">Comments:</label><br />
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" rows="5" cols="20"><?php get_data("comments"); ?></textarea><br />
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
</p>
</form>

I have been fighting this for around 3 hrs now, looking and search for possible reasons and solutions but cannot find anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

blush ... I love your bad word list.

I would start removing your various sections, one at a time
until it starts to work. Start with the isBot test, and keep
eliminating all of those "odd tests" that you're doing. One of
them must always be failing.

That much validation is mind boggling.
Wouldn't a simple captcha (or Re-Captcha) be enough?

I just grabbed the code from

http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/php-scripts-php-mail-form

I never did a email form with code, I always used a program, but it wouldnt work for this type form,

I will start removing it all 1 by 1 and see what happens. Very much appreciate the quick response

Ok, I did alot of editing on this and I got the form to email, but its not emailing all the submitted info.

Here is what I did. I added a mailer.php and edited my code to suit, All it is sending is the name.

Mailer.php

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "MYEMAIL@gmail.com";
$subject = "Form Submission";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$number_field = $_POST['number'];
$position_field = $_POST['position'];
$upload_field = $_POST['upload'];
$score_field = $_POST['score'];
$comments_field = $_POST['comments'];

$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Message:\n $message";

echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";
mail($to, $subject, $body);

} else {

echo "blarg!";

}
?>

my code for form
<form method="POST" action="mailer.php" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
<noscript>
<p><input type="hidden" name="nojs" id="nojs" /></p>
</noscript>
<p>
<label for="name">Name:</label><br />
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="" size="30"/></p>
<p>
<label for="email">E-mail:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="30" /><br />
</p>
<p>
<label for="name">Number:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="number" id="number" value="" /></p>
<p>
<label for="url">Position you are applying for:</label><br />
<select name="position" id="position" >
<option selected="selected">accounting+finance</option>
<option>admin / office</option>
<option>arch / engineering</option>
<option>art / media / design</option>
<option>biotech / science</option>
<option>business / mgmt</option>
<option>customer service</option>
<option>education</option>
<option>food / bev / hosp</option>
<option>general labor</option>
<option>government</option>
<option>human resources</option>
<option>internet engineers</option>
<option>legal / paralegal</option>
<option>manufacturing</option>
<option>marketing / pr / ad</option>
<option>medical / health</option>
<option>nonprofit sector</option>
<option>real estate</option>
<option>retail / wholesale</option>
<option>sales / biz dev</option>
<option>salon / spa / fitness</option>
<option>security</option>
<option>skilled trade / craft</option>
<option>software / qa / dba</option>
<option>systems / network</option>
<option>technical support</option>
<option>transport</option>
<option>tv / film / video</option>
<option>web / info design</option>
<option>writing / editing</option>
</select></p>
<p>
<label for="location">Upload your resume:</label><br />
<span class="style1">(Must be in .doc, .rtf, .txt or
.pdf format)</span><br />
<input type="file" name="upload" size="30"/><br />
</p>
<p>
<label for="name">Credit Score:</label> <br />
<input type="text" name="score" id="score" value="" size="30"/></p>
<h3 class="style2" style="width: 224px">Your application will not be
accepted and marked as incomplete without your real credit score. To obtain
your credit score free Click on the banner below.</h3>
<p>
<img alt="" height="27" src="credit.png" width="288" /></p>
<p>

<label for="comments">Comments:</label><br />
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" rows="5" cols="20"></textarea><br />
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
</p>
</form>

This is getting frustrating. I know it is something very simple but no matter what I try or read it is not working.

So what information isn't being submitted? I'm going to guess its the file input. You need to handle that part differently. Simply getting the post value doesn't create an attachment automatically. And your $body variable has none of your post variables.

$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Message:\n $message"
Of course you aren't going to see anything if variables don't exist. I guess thats what happens when you just copy and paste.

Ahhh, I knew it was something very simple. Very much apprecieted.

$name_field catches the POSTed variable in that code block above. $message doesn't exist, though. Not sure what the deal is with $email_field. It's set up to catch the data, though, I think.

Ok, Now I have the form emailing everything but the uploaded file. So thats a big step.

Now just have to figure out how to attach the uploaded file to the email.