PHP contact forms noob problem help please

[drickles]

i need help getting the contact us page on my website to work. We are a team of two with me dealing with the html and the css whiles the other deals with the php but now my other half isnt available and ive got myself a little trouble.

 

this is how my form id is structured in my html code

<form id="ajax-contact-form" action="contact.php" class="contact_form">                                
                                <input type="text" class="required" name="name" value="Name" title="Name" />
                                <input type="text" class="required" name="email" value="Email" title="Email" />
                                <input type="text" name="subject" value="Subject" title="Subject" />                            
                                <textarea name="message" class="required" id="message" title="Message">Message</textarea> 
                                <input type="reset" class="send_btn" value="Clear form" />
                                <input class="send_btn" type="submit" value="Send message!"> 
                            </form> 

now here is where i get confused. The template i am modifying does not come with a contact.php. all i seemed to find was a folder named contact_form which contained two php files named contact_process.php and email_validation.php..these are their codes respectively

 

contact_process.php

<?php

include dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/mail.php';

error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);


$post = (!empty($_POST)) ? true : false;

if($post)
{
include 'email_validation.php';

$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
$subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);
$message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);


$error = '';

// Check name

if(!$name)
{
$error .= 'Please enter your name.<br />';
}

// Check email

if(!$email)
{
$error .= 'Please enter an e-mail address.<br />';
}

if($email && !ValidateEmail($email))
{
$error .= 'Please enter a valid e-mail address.<br />';
}

// Check message (length)

if(!$message || strlen($message) < 10)
{
$error .= "Please enter your message. It should have at least 10 characters.<br />";
}


if(!$error)
{
$mail = mail(CONTACT_FORM, $subject, $message,
     "From: ".$name." <".$email.">\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());


if($mail)
{
echo 'OK';
}

}
else
{
echo '<div class="notification_error">'.$error.'</div>';
}

}
?>

email_validation.php

<?php
function ValidateEmail($value)
{
	$regex = '/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i';

	if($value == '') { 
		return false;
	} else {
		$string = preg_replace($regex, '', $value);
	}

	return empty($string) ? true : false;
}
?>

i couldnt make sense of what was going on in the codes until i realized there was another php file in the root directory named mail.php. i opened it and saw this

<?php
// Where will you get the forms' results?
define("CONTACT_FORM", 'xxxxxxx@domain.com');
?>

now this actually made me happy because i thought everything would be owk by just filling up that mail.php file with the right email. except upon uploading the site files and testing my contact us page i still dont get an email. 

 

is there something im doing wrong? i also got an idea to input a forwarder email into the mail.php instead of my direct email  to see if it would work. am i suppose to run something on my cpanel to make it work? please any form of help will be really helpful

[taquitosensei]

Since the contact.php doesn't exist. Try changing your forms action to contact_process.php it may need to be 'contact_form/contact_process.php' 

[drickles]

Since the contact.php doesn't exist. Try changing your forms action to contact_process.php it may need to be 'contact_form/contact_process.php' 

thanks buddy. so after many hours spent on trying to fix the problem i just realized one thing. my server does not support smtp. without that the mail.php script is bound to never work right?

[ginerjm]

If your server does not smtp, what mail protocol DOES it support? And do you know for sure that your code requires smtp?