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OK, so my result is that I submit the form and it does all the validations successfully (like, I entered numbers for the name it catches it and fails with my message). I get the message "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon." which is at the end of my PHP page. But I am not getting an email to my Gmail account.
At one point I had an issue only while debugging locally, but on my Azure web server, it worked. I am coming back to my website a year later and am trying to remember how it works.
I am having a real hard time figuring out any debugging options to step through code.
Form code:
index.html
<form name="contactform" id="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php"><fieldset><div class="form-field"><input name="first_name" type="text" id="first_name" placeholder="Name" value="" minlength="2" required="" aria-required="true" class="full-width"></div><div class="form-field"><input name="email" type="email" id="email" placeholder="Email" value="" required="" aria-required="true" class="full-width"></div><div class="form-field"><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" placeholder="Subject" value="" class="full-width"></div><div class="form-field"><textarea name="comments" id="comments" placeholder="Message" rows="10" cols="50" required="" aria-required="true" class="full-width"></textarea></div><div class="form-field"><button class="full-width btn--primary" type="submit">Submit Email</button><div class="submit-loader"><div class="text-loader">Sending...</div><div class="s-loader"><div class="bounce1"></div><div class="bounce2"></div><div class="bounce3"></div></div></div></div></fieldset></form>AND HERE IS MY PHP FILE:
send_form_email.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "REDACTED@gmail.com";
$email_subject = "Your email subject line";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$telephone = $_POST['subject']; // not required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?><!-- include your own success html here -->
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.<?php
}
?>