php email problem :(

[woowoobear]

I'm having a problem getting my contact form information  to arrive in the desired email account. The email account itself if provided by my web host. It has the ability to send and receive emails.

 

The validation works perfectly eg when i type in incorrect/ miss out information it displays the appropriate error message.

 

When i put in the proper information it displays the "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon" message but no email arrives in the specified email account.

 

Could someone please check over my code and see if there is something that I am missing? Its driving me mental!

 

Below are the html form and php codes.

<form action="send_form_email.php" method="post" >


<table width="400" border="0">


<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="first_name">*First Name:-</label>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">
  <input  type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="37">
</td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="last_name">*Last Name:-</label>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">
  <input  type="text" name="last_name" maxlength="50" size="37">
</td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="email">*Email Address:-</label>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">
  <input  type="text" name="email" maxlength="50" size="37">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="phone">Telephone Number:-</label>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">
  <input  type="text" name="phone" maxlength="50" size="37">
</td>
</tr>



<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="contact">Contact Time:-</label>
</td>

<td valign="top" align="right">
  <select name="contact">
  <option value="Anytime from 9am - 9pm!">Anytime from 9am - 9pm!</option>
  <option value="9am - 1pm">9am - 1pm</option>
  <option value="1pm - 2pm">1pm - 2pm</option>
  <option value="2pm - 6pm">2pm - 6pm</option>
  <option value="6pm - 9pm">6pm - 6pm</option>
  <option value="Please do not contact me by phone!">Please do not contact me by phone!</option>
  <option value="">_________________________________</option>
  </select>
</td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td width="150" valign="top">
  <label for="find">How did you hear about MPM?</label>
</td>

<td valign="top" align="right">
  <select name="find">
  <option value="Search Engine">Search Engine</option>
  <option value="Facebook Ad">Facebook Ad</option>
  <option value="Facebook Profile">Facebook Profile</option>
  <option value="Gumtree Ad">Gumtree Ad</option>
  <option value="Recommendation">Recommendation</option>
  <option value="">_________________________________</option>
  </select>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
  <br>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
  <label for="comments">*Enquiry:-</label>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
<center>
  <textarea  name="comments" maxlength="1000" cols="47" rows="10"></textarea>
</center>
</td> 
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
  <br>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top">
  * = Required Field
</td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top">
<input type="submit" value="  Send your enquiry!  " />
</td>
</tr>

</table>

</form>

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    
    $email_to = "[email protected]";
    $email_subject = "New customer information:";
     
     
    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();
    }
     
    
    if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['phone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['contact']) ||
        !isset($_POST['find']) ||
        !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
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['phone']; // not required
    $contact = $_POST['contact']; // not required
    $find = $_POST['find']; // not required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
     
    $error_message = "";
   $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($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 = "New customer 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";
    $email_message .= "Last Name:   ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email:   ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone:   ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Preferred Time of Contact:   ".clean_string($contact)."\n";
    $email_message .= "How did the customer find out about Mr Paul Media?:   ".clean_string($find)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments:   ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
     
     

$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
?>



Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php
}
?>

 

 

I'd be very grateful for any help!

 

 

[betterphp]

@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 

 

you should not be using @ here, for some reason the way php handles this is pretty slow.

 

also if you are testing this locally then you may not be allowed to send email out, some ISPs block port 25

 

you can also try

 

var_dump(mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers)); 

 

to see if the email is being sent properly.

[woowoobear]

Thanks for the suggestion mate! Its has come back with "bool(true)".

 

What should that mean?

[betterphp]

that means your script is fine and as far as php is concerned the email is being sent. Which means there is either a problem with the mail server you are trying to use or the host you are sending it to is rejecting it for some reason.

[woowoobear]

Curious! hmmmm....

 

At least I know its not a code thing!  Thanks for your trouble mate!