email not sending

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

Can someone help me understand why an email isn't being sent after clicking submit?

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
?>   
<!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
extract ($_POST);
if(!isset($submit))
{
?>
<form action=" " method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br />
phone <input name="phone" type="text" size="13" /><br />
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
<?php
$Recipient = "$email"; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgHeader = "From Auntie Vic's Treatery <auntievics@gmail.com>\r\n"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody, $MsgHeader); 
}
else 
{
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
?>   


</body>
</html>

melloorr · December 19, 2011

Are you getting any errors? Also is it a local host or are you using a service? Because I had this problem today, and it was because godaddy does not send emails the the 'from' in the mail() function if it is from hotmail.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com, etc.

melloorr · December 19, 2011

sorry for double post

btellez · December 19, 2011

You can not send mail using the mail function after something has been sent to the browser... You need to call mail before you do any output...

<?php
/* process */
mail(/*appropriate parameters here*/);
?>
<html>
......ect...

See the PHP.net Documentation

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

Actually, yes this is through godaddy. Are there any solutions?

Pikachu2000 · December 19, 2011

Look at your logic. The mail function is only called if the form hasn't been submitted. That obviously isn't going to work that way.

melloorr · December 19, 2011

Actually, yes this is through godaddy. Are there any solutions?

I just took out the 'from' function completely, now it just says that it is being sent by my godaddy email address

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

take off

	$MsgHeader = "From Auntie Vic's Treatery <auntievics@gmail.com>\r\n";

?

melloorr · December 19, 2011

take off

	$MsgHeader = "From Auntie Vic's Treatery <auntievics@gmail.com>\r\n";

?

Just have:

mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody)

And if you need their email address, just put it inside the email

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

That didn't work either. If I change

if(!isset($submit))

to

if(isset($submit))

then the thank you page doesn't come up

<?php
$Recipient = "$email"; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody); 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
?>   
<!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
extract ($_POST);
if(!isset($submit))
{
?>
<form action=" " method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br /> 
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
<?php
}
else 
{
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
?>   
</body>
</html>

melloorr · December 19, 2011

I have not tested it, but does this work?

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

if(isset($submit))
{
extract ($_POST);
$Recipient = "$email"; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody); 
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
else 
{
echo " Error sending email";
}
?> 

<!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>
<form action=" <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br /> 
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
  
</body>
</html>

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

no

melloorr · December 19, 2011

Sorry, I got it wrong here is the code:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$Recipient = $email; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody); 
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
else 
{
echo " Error sending email";
}
?> 

<!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>
<form action=" <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br /> 
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
  
</body>
</html>

BTW, I could see where you specified the variable $email?

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

if you do it that way $email isn't defined yet

scootstah · December 19, 2011

Change to

$Recipient = $_POST['email'];

melloorr · December 19, 2011

if you do it that way $email isn't defined yet

$recipient is the email address the email is being sent to. So it will be your email address. Which should be preferably constant

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

With the following code I get "thank you for your order. It is being processed. Thank you for your business." not the form

<?php
$Recipient = $_POST['$email']; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody); 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
?>   
<!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
extract ($_POST);
if(!isset($submit))
{
?>
<form action=" " method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br /> '
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
<?php
}
else 
{
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
?>   


</body>
</html>

scootstah · December 19, 2011

Maybe you should explain what you want the script to do, and then we can help you.

melloorr · December 19, 2011

I have just tested the code I posted before, and it worked. all you have to do is set $recipient as YOUR email address you want the email to go to

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

i need it to send an email to the person submitting the form

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

but the recipient may not be me. It's whoever fills out the fprm

scootstah · December 19, 2011

Okay, so in what way does melloorr's code fail to do that?

melloorr · December 19, 2011

but the recipient may not be me. It's whoever fills out the fprm

Then just put:

$recipient = $_POST['email'];

mindapolis · December 19, 2011

i did and it didn't send the email.

<?php
$Recipient = $_POST['$email']; 
$MsgSubject = "message subject"; 
$MsgBody = "message body."; 
mail($Recipient, $MsgSubject, $MsgBody); 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
?>   
<!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
extract ($_POST);
if(!isset($submit))
{
?>
<form action=" " method="post" name="test">   
Name: <input name="name " type="text" id="name " size="8" /><br /> '
email <input name="email" type="text" size="9" maxlength="30" /><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />  
</form>
<?php
}
else 
{
echo " thank you for your order.  It is being processed.  Thank you for your business.";
}
?>   


</body>
</html>

scootstah · December 19, 2011

You should carefully look at melloor's code and then back at your own and figure out where your problem is coming from.

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