PHP Contact Form Not Sending Email
Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to develop a website with a contact form. I have received some help on this in the past from Ray (here) and Marco (here). I think I Have everything set up correctly but I don't actually receive any email after clicking 'Submit'. There is no error generated from the PHP mail function and the mail is not ending up in my Junk folder. Nothing is happening at all. I know this can be difficult to accomplish but I need to try.
I'm new to PHP and all things web development but I've been trying to learn as much as possible to try and figure this out. Please let me know if I need to change something in the way I have this set up. I think I may need send the Post array via an AJAX call in my JS instead of the way I'm doing it now.
All the files necessary to run my site via your local server are attached. After loading the site from the index.php file click the Contact button in the Nav bar. Fill out the form and click Submit. Also, you'll probably want to change these two values for testing purposes.
Also, when you click Submit, the form will disappear. You have to click on Contact again in order to see the 'Success' message. I'm sure I'll need to ask another question to fix this, but one thing at a time :-).
Thanks in advance,
Kyle
MySite.zip
I'm trying to develop a website with a contact form. I have received some help on this in the past from Ray (here) and Marco (here). I think I Have everything set up correctly but I don't actually receive any email after clicking 'Submit'. There is no error generated from the PHP mail function and the mail is not ending up in my Junk folder. Nothing is happening at all. I know this can be difficult to accomplish but I need to try.
I'm new to PHP and all things web development but I've been trying to learn as much as possible to try and figure this out. Please let me know if I need to change something in the way I have this set up. I think I may need send the Post array via an AJAX call in my JS instead of the way I'm doing it now.
All the files necessary to run my site via your local server are attached. After loading the site from the index.php file click the Contact button in the Nav bar. Fill out the form and click Submit. Also, you'll probably want to change these two values for testing purposes.
Also, when you click Submit, the form will disappear. You have to click on Contact again in order to see the 'Success' message. I'm sure I'll need to ask another question to fix this, but one thing at a time :-).
Thanks in advance,
Kyle
MySite.zip
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Yep, the mail from giuseppe was mine :-)
Your form works correctly: the email are sent with no exception. I can't reproduce the bug: the form remains visible. Don't remember if I've asked for this yet, but can you give a live link? So I can play with it to try to understand what happens. In my tests everything works as expected.
Your form works correctly: the email are sent with no exception. I can't reproduce the bug: the form remains visible. Don't remember if I've asked for this yet, but can you give a live link? So I can play with it to try to understand what happens. In my tests everything works as expected.
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Marco,
I uploaded my new index.php file to the live server. I just sent myself an email and it worked. Can you please test it for me one more time.
Here's a link
At least it's something until I can get a more robust solution put together.
Kyle
I uploaded my new index.php file to the live server. I just sent myself an email and it worked. Can you please test it for me one more time.
Here's a link
At least it's something until I can get a more robust solution put together.
Kyle
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Ray,
My plan is to move away from sending myself an email when the Submit button is clicked. Instead I plan to log the data like you said. What's your suggestion as to the best way to do this. My first thought was to create a text file containing the form information each time someone submits something. So essentially I would end up with a directory full of text files. Then I thought I could also create an Access database and dump the data in there using ADO (I guess it would be ADO). What is your suggestion?
Kyle
My plan is to move away from sending myself an email when the Submit button is clicked. Instead I plan to log the data like you said. What's your suggestion as to the best way to do this. My first thought was to create a text file containing the form information each time someone submits something. So essentially I would end up with a directory full of text files. Then I thought I could also create an Access database and dump the data in there using ADO (I guess it would be ADO). What is your suggestion?
Kyle
Done. Yes I see the form which goes away. Let me play a bit...
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Marco,
I just received 3 test messages from you. The first was at 5:45pm and the last was at 5:49pm. Is that how many you sent?
Kyle
I just received 3 test messages from you. The first was at 5:45pm and the last was at 5:49pm. Is that how many you sent?
Kyle
3 emails yes.
About logging, if you want to use a text file just use file_put_contents() this way:
But I usually log to a database table: it is just easier using standard db routines.
About logging, if you want to use a text file just use file_put_contents() this way:
file_put_contents( 'LogFile.txt', $logString . "\n", FILE_APPEND );But I usually log to a database table: it is just easier using standard db routines.
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Ray,
Thanks for the input and the article. Excellent work. I'm going to start working on logging the form info to a database.
Marco,
Thanks for the input as well. I figured Submit was causing the page to reload.
Thanks again to both of you.
Kyle
Thanks for the input and the article. Excellent work. I'm going to start working on logging the form info to a database.
Marco,
Thanks for the input as well. I figured Submit was causing the page to reload.
Thanks again to both of you.
Kyle
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