Why doesn't my Contact Form work?

Website Building
#1

Hi,

I’ve been having serious difficulty trying to get my contact form to work. I am very inexperienced with PHP, so I’d imagine this is a simple question.

I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

URL: http://www.austinlindsay.com/contact.html

Here’s the code:

contact.html:

<div id=“contact_form”><form method=“POST” action=“contact.php”>
Fields marked (*) are required

<p>Email From:* <br>
<input type=“text” name=“EmailFrom”>
<p>Subject: <br>
<input type=“text” name=“Subject”>
<p>Name:<br>
<input type=“text” name=“Name”>
<p>YourMessage:<br>
<textarea name=“YourMessage”></textarea>
<p><input type=“submit” name=“submit” value=“Submit”>
</form>
<p>

<!-- Contact Form credit link -->
Created by <a target="_blank"
href=“http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/”>Contact
Form Generator</a></div>

contact.php:

<?php
// Website Contact Form Generator
// http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/
// This script is free to use as long as you
// retain the credit link

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST[‘EmailFrom’]));
$EmailTo = "jlindsay101@aol.com";
$Subject = Trim(stripslashes($_POST[‘Subject’]));
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST[‘Name’]));
$YourMessage = Trim(stripslashes($_POST[‘YourMessage’]));

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
print “<meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“0;URL=error.htm”>”;
exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = “”;
$Body .= "Name: ";
$Body .= $Name;
$Body .= “
”;
$Body .= "YourMessage: ";
$Body .= $YourMessage;
$Body .= “
”;

// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, “From: <$EmailFrom>”);

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print “<meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“0;URL=ok.htm”>”;
}
else{
print “<meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“0;URL=error.htm”>”;
}
?>

#2

just a wild guess here but i believe it is because ur giving the ($Body .) to many variables, u might want to try to bracket them, EG.
$Body = ("",“Name: “,$Name,”
”, "YourMessage: ",$YourMessage, “
”);
and i would possibly check the variables you have given it,it doesnt make sense to me.

but considering this looks kinda like a email couldnt you put something like

$body = “<body>(something to insert text here)</body>”

#3

Hey, thanks for your response.

I don’t understand any of the code. I just found a website that generated the code for me.

#4

Instead of using the above use this one ->http://www.000webhost.com/forum/web-programming/18460-one-php-contact-form-works-another-does-not-can-you-tell-me-why.html#post90641

What´s the problem with the script above anyway? Any error message ?

#5

I’m having more luck with this one - the form submits but I do not receive the email, despite changing the email to: $my_email = "jlindsay101@aol.com";

Any idea where I’m going wrong?

Also, is there a way to remove the box around the text fields?

Thanks.

#6

not sure what you mean with border around the text fields. If you mean the background behind the text fields just change

<table border="0" style="background:#ececec" cellspacing="5">

to

<table border="0" cellspacing="5">

Did you check your spam folder and/or made sure that mail from 000webhost.com servers isn´t blocked?

#7

Thanks, the background thing worked.

But yeah, I’ve checked my spam folder and I know that my mail from 000webhost isn’t blocked because I receive a notification when a forum post has been made.

Is it definitely an issue with email accounts, or could it be something else?

#8

have you got an alternative email account that you could try with? I know it works as i used googlemail.com and outlaw-forum.info when testing that script, as well as the mail address of my free hosting account here. Everything worked just fine…but then you have aol hehe :slight_smile:

#9

I know. It’s not the best email provider! But I’ve tried a different email address and it still doesn’t work.

But it could be something else, maybe? I’ve placed it in a div tag, if that matters?

#10

not really, placing it in a div tag shouldn´t matter (as long as you put the HTML part in a div container, not the php code in the contact.php file. Can you post the entire contents of your contact.php file please?

#11

Of course. Here it is. Thanks…

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=UTF-8” />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

$my_email = "jlindsay@aol.com";
$from_email = “”;
$continue = “/contact.html”;

$errors = array();

// Remove $_COOKIE elements from $_REQUEST.

if(count($_COOKIE)){foreach(array_keys($_COOKIE) as $value){unset($_REQUEST[$value]);}}

// Validate email field.

if(isset($_REQUEST[‘email’]) && !empty($_REQUEST[‘email’]))
{

$_REQUEST[‘email’] = trim($_REQUEST[‘email’]);

if(substr_count($_REQUEST[‘email’],"@") != 1 || stristr($_REQUEST[‘email’]," “)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{$exploded_email = explode(”@",$_REQUEST[‘email’]);if(empty($exploded_email[0]) || strlen($exploded_email[0]) > 64 || empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],".") == 0){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{$exploded_domain = explode(".",$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array("",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match(’/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i’,$value)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”; break;}}}}}}

}

// Check referrer is from same site.

if(!(isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]) && !empty($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]) && stristr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’],$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]))){$errors[] = “You must enable referrer logging to use the form”;}

// Check for a blank form.

function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value)
{

global $set;

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

}

}

recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST);

if(!$set){$errors[] = “You cannot send a blank form”;}

unset($set);

// Display any errors and exit if errors exist.

if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print “$value<br>”;} exit;}

if(!defined(“PHP_EOL”)){define(“PHP_EOL”, strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == “WIN”) ? “
” : “
”);}

// Build message.

function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace("_"," “,ucfirst($key)).”: “.build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).”, “;}}}}return rtrim($message_output,”, ");}

$message = build_message($_REQUEST);

$message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL."-- ".PHP_EOL.“Thank you for using our contact form.”;

$message = stripslashes($message);

$subject = “Contact Form”;

$subject = stripslashes($subject);

if($from_email)
{

$headers = "From: " . $from_email;
$headers .= PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_REQUEST[‘email’];

}
else
{

$from_name = “”;

if(isset($_REQUEST[‘name’]) && !empty($_REQUEST[‘name’])){$from_name = stripslashes($_REQUEST[‘name’]);}

$headers = “From: {$from_name} <{$_REQUEST[‘email’]}>”;

}

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>

<html>

<head>
<title>Just some title</title>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#333" text="#FFF">

<div>
<center>
<b>Thank you <?php if(isset($_REQUEST[‘name’])){print stripslashes($_REQUEST[‘name’]);} ?></b>
<br>Your message has been sent
<p><a href="<?php print $continue; ?>">Click here to continue</a></p>

</center>
</div>

</body>
</html>

#12 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

Where does that come from? if it´s in the contact.php file remove it

#13

Okay, have done. I guess that means I should take out the closing head and body tags?

I tried but I’m still not getting anything, though.

#14

Can you do a quick test please?
Fill out and submit the form at http://just2test.freeiz.com/contact.html
I set it up with your email address now, tested it with mine a minute ago and worked perfectly. let´s see if you get any mail when submitting the form

#15

I haven’t got anything - so it’s obviously a problem with my email address, right?

Or could it be that I don’t have sufficient privileges on 000webhost?

I really appreciate your time. Thanks.

#16

it´s not about privileges or something, maybe it´s down to aol having blacklisted 000webhost (just a thought, there can be many other reasons). The best thing to test if it´s really down to aol is to use an alternative email address and see if you get the mail there

#17

I tried it with a yahoo email address and that didn’t work, either.

Other things to note:

I’ve called the pages: contact.php and contact.html

The php file is in the same directory as the html

#18

That´s fine, else it wouldn´t work unless you would have specified the path to the .php file hehe.

Erm…if even Yahoo doesn´t work it´s really weird. Just checked the server ip against the most commom spam/rbl blacklists but couldn´t find any entry at all.
Starting to run out of ideas hehe. Can you please tell me which server you are on?

#19

I don’t understand, sorry.

My domain was bought from name.com but I don’t think that’s what you meant.

How can I find out which server I’m on?

#20

log into your 000webhost member area, on the right side there should be something like server**.000webhost.com (** being two numbers). That´s the server name i need to cross-check on the spam blacklists