So the issue that was bringing this message was my regular expression variable was missing a character so the function of match was not working.
$reg_exp = "/^([a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/ ";
if(!preg_match($reg_exp, $email)){
$errorMsg .= "<p>A valid email is required</p>";
}
so that fixed this issue.
What you bring up is a whole other issue within itself, that i realized once solving the problem above. The data for $message is not being sent to with the submission and client side php is not seeing that data.
Not sure why that would be happening.
EDIT:
I changed the if(empty($message)) -> if(!isset($message)) and that seemed to have fixed it.
Any reason why that would be ?
