Contact Form - Fails Everytime. Bad Code?

[mrusho]

Hello,

 

I have a contact form that is not working. It just keeps providing the failed delivery message specified in the contact. php file. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

<?php
$field_department = $_POST['cf_department'];
$field_message = $_POST['cf_message'];

$mail_to = 'blah@blah.com';
$subject = 'Website Feedback';

$body_message .= 'Addressed to: '.$field_department."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	alert('Thank you for your feedback.');
	window.location = 'contact.html';
</script>
<?php
}
else { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to blah@blah.com');
	window.location = 'contact.html';
</script>
<?php
}
?>

 

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<form action="contact.php" method="post">
          <ol><li>
          </li><li>
            <label for="department">Addressed to:</label>
            <input type="text" name="cf_department" class="text" />
          </li><li>
            <label for="message">Your Message:</label>
            <textarea name="cf_message"rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
          </li><li>
            <input type="submit" value="send" /><input type="reset" value="Clear"/>
            <div class="clr"></div>
          </li></ol>
          </form>

[gristoi]

echo out $mail_status to see if it is returning true or not. do you have a mail server set up to test this on? if you are just trying it from your pc as a localhost then it will always fail

[mrusho]

echo out $mail_status to see if it is returning true or not. do you have a mail server set up to test this on? if you are just trying it from your pc as a localhost then it will always fail

 

Thanks for the reply,

 

This is located on my companies local web server hosted using IIS. We have an email server setup (everything was setup before I got here) but I'm not even sure where to check to see if it is connected to the mail server. Any ideas?

[the182guy]

Check the SMTP settings in your php.ini config file.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

See if there are any php errors being reported. Add the following two lines of code immediately after your first opening <?php tag -

 

ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(-1);

[Maq]

mrusho, in the future, please place

OR

tags around your code.