Contact Form

[stublackett]

Hi,

 

I've made a contact form, The E-Mail address that the form sends to is valid etc, But its just not sending to my E-Mail address

 

The HTML code is

<form method="post" action="contact.php" >  
                                        <fieldset>
                                        <legend>Contact Details</legend>  
                                        <ol>  
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="name">Name :</label>  
                                        <input name="name" type="text" class="text" id="name" size="35" />  
                                        </li>  
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="email">Email address :</label>  
                                        <input name="email" type="text" class="text" id="email" size="35" />  
                                        </li>  
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="phone">Telephone Number :</label>  
                                        <input name="phone" type="text" class="text" id="phone" size="35" />  
                                        </li>
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="fax">Fax Number :</label>  
                                        <input name="fax" type="text" class="text" id="fax" size="35" />  
                                        </li>
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="address1">Address Line 1 :</label>  
                                        <input name="address" type="text" class="text" id="address1" size="35" />  
                                        </li>
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="address2">Address Line 2 :</label>  
                                        <input name="address2" type="text" class="text" id="address2" size="35" />  
                                        </li>
                                        <li>  
                                        <label for="postcode">Post Code:</label>  
                                        <input name="postcode" type="text" class="text" id="postcode" size="35" />  
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                        <label for="yourmessage">Your Message : </label>
                                        <textarea name="message" cols="33" rows="5" class="text" id="message"></textarea></ol>  
                                        </fieldset>  
                                        <fieldset class="submit">  
                                        <input class="submit" type="submit"  
                                        value="Submit" />  
                                        <input class="reset" type="reset" />
                                        </fieldset> 
                                        </form>

 

and the PHP That handles that form is

 

<?php

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Alnwick Lodge Contact E-Mail";
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$telephone = $_POST["phone"];
$fax = $_POST["fax"];
$address1 = $_POST["address"];
$address2 = $_POST["address2"];
$postcode = $_POST["postcode"];
$message = $_POST["message"];


$messagesent = "From: $name Message: $message";
$from = $_POST["email"];
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$messagesent,$headers);
echo "Your message has been sent to the webmaster, thank you.";

?>

 

Can anyone see any reason why this isnt working?  ???  ???

[kbh43dz_u]

do you get an error message? try a the mail() function alone and enter the values manually. -> It can be that the mailserver (mail() sends with) is blacklisted by your mail provider.

[stublackett]

No error message, Apologies for not saying that

 

I get the echo of "Message sent to webmaster" when it blatently hasnt.....

 

I've used this exact script before and it worked then, But not this time

[kbh43dz_u]

mail() returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.

 

your echo will be shown in any case (except there is an syntax error...). change your echo to this:

 

$result = mail($to,$subject,$messagesent,$headers);
if($result){
    echo "Your message has been sent to the webmaster, thank you.";
}

 

edit: also check if your variables are not empty before you send the mail.

[stublackett]

mail() returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.

 

your echo will be shown in any case (except there is an syntax error...). change your echo to this:

 

$result = mail($to,$subject,$messagesent,$headers);
if($result){
    echo "Your message has been sent to the webmaster, thank you.";
}

 

edit: also check if your variables are not empty before you send the mail.

 

Still no joy with that, I'm afraid

 

I've echoed out the variables to see if their sending over and they definatley are, It just seems that its that mail function thats not doing the job

 

Unless I all of a sudden get 6 or 7 e-mails from trying

[kbh43dz_u]

then you simply have a delay 

 

emails have to run through lots of security/virus/... checks before they arrive.

[stublackett]

then you simply have a delay 

 

emails have to run through lots of security/virus/... checks before they arrive.

 

How long should that delay be though  ??? ???

 

Think its been a good 15 minutes + and still nothing through

[jonsjava]

Have you checked your spam folder. Googlemail checks reverse entries, and if your server isn't authorized to send that mail, it puts it in the spam can.

[stublackett]

Nothing in the spam folder either

 

I'm going to try changing the E-Mail address, Cant see any reason at all why this shouldnt work ???