"Simple Contact Form" PHP not sending email

Gabby7 · 09-02-2009, 08:46 PM

Hello+
I have attempted to write a simple PHP script to send the contact information to a specific email address. Everything seems to be working fine, except the email is not reaching me. I'm not certain what is going wrong - can anyone help? The PHP code is below:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



/* subject and email variables */



    $emailSubject = 'Contact From Website!';

    $webMaster = 'nomad654321@earthlink.net';

    

/* gathering data variables */



    $emailField = $_POST['email'];

    $nameField = $_POST['cname'];

    $phoneField = $_POST['phone'];

    $interestedField = $_POST['interested'];

    $artworkField = $_POST['artwork'];

    $commentsField = $_POST['comments'];

    

    $body = <<<EOD

<br><hr><br>

Email: $email <br>

Name: $cname <br>

Phone Number: $phone <br>

Interested in: $interested <br>

Artwork: $artwork <br>

Comments: $comments <br>

EOD;



    $headers = "From: $email\r\n";

    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

    $success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

    

/* results rendered as HTML */



    $theResults = <<<EOD

<html>

<head>

<title>Photography by Lynn Santus</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">

<!--

body {

    font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

    font-size: 18px;

    font-style: normal;

    line-height: normal;

    font-weight: normal;

    color: #330099;

    text-decoration: none;

    background-image: url(images/greengrunge10.png);

    text-align: center;

}

-->

</style>

</head>



<div>

  <div align="center">

    <p><img src="images/lynnbanner.png" alt="Photography by Lynn Santus" width="801" height="150" border="0" usemap="#Map">

<map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="84,3,603,154" href="index.html" alt="Link to Home Page">

</map></p>

    <p>Thank you for your interest! Your email will be answered very soon!</p>

    <p>Click <a href="index.html">here</a> to return to the Home Page. </p>

  </div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

EOD;

echo "$theResults";



?>

Thank you for any guidance offered...

Fumigator · 09-02-2009, 08:51 PM

Two things-- Turn on full error reporting:

PHP Code:


			
error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set("display_errors", 1);

And check the success of the mail() function-- you assign the result to variable $success but then you don't check it.

PHP Code:


			
if (!$success) {

    die("error sending email!");

}

If the mail() function fails check your PHP error log.

If all of that doesn't get you anywhere, tell us what kind of PHP install you are using and dump the contents of your phpinfo() here.

_Aerospace_Eng_ · 09-02-2009, 09:03 PM

I also suggest removing your actual email address from your post or you will soon start to get spammed.

ajetrumpet · 09-02-2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fumigator

And check the success of the mail() function-- you assign the result to variable $success but then you don't check it.

PHP Code:


			
if (!$success) {

    die("error sending email!");

}

If the mail() function fails check your PHP error log.

you may also want to use your own logs. i do for my website. when i do batch mailings, i write the results to a log then check it when i'm done to see if anything failed in case i need to resend some. it might be of use to you.

PHP Code:


			
if (!$success) {

   $logline = "delivery failed...|\r\n"; }

else { $logline = "delivery successful!|\r\n"; }



$file = @fopen("mylogfile", "a");

fputs($file, $logline );

fclose($file);

Gabby7 · 09-02-2009, 10:10 PM

Thank you, everyone! I will do as you suggest and if it doesn't work, then I will re-post. Thank you.