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I am trying to create a contact form using php and a html form. When the user clicks submit I want the details that they have entered into the form to be sent in an email.
When the user clicks submit they are shown a message to say the message has been sent but when I check my email nothing has been sent.
Here is my code, please note the email has been changed to show the code here.
<div id = "form">
<form action ="contact2.php" method="post">
Name:
<input type="text" name="name">
<br>
<br>
Email:
<input type="text" name="email">
<br>
<br>
Message:
<br>
<br>
<TEXTAREA NAME="message" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</div>
</form>
<?php
$field_name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$field_message = $_POST['message'];
$mail_to = 'example#yahoo.co.uk';
$subject = 'Message from a site visitor ' . $field_name;
$body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";
$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);
if ($mail_status) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');
window.location = 'contact.php';
</script>
else { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to example#yahoo.co.uk');
window.location = 'contact.php';
</script>
<?php
}?>

you want to have all that javascript wrapped in a php echo or else it doesnt work.
so...
if ($mail_status) {
echo '<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">';
thats just a bit of the code you need to implement...
you want to echo every javascript line too.

Ajax/php contact form sending blank emails from time to time

Well I have this contact form that sends blank emails. But I did some testing and it doesn't happens to me. The only way this could happen, I think, would be by accesing the .php file directly. If not I don't know what could be the problem. The form doesn't let you send a blank email. If this keeps happening I'm going to add a validation in the php file too, but until I find out what is the problem I don't want to ignore this messages.
This is the HTML
<form name="contactForm" id="contactForm" method="post" action="/contactEngine.php" onsubmit="return validateForm()">
<input title="Input name" type="text" name="Name" id="Name" placeholder="Nombre:" required="">
<input title="Input email" placeholder="Email:" type="email" name="Email" id="Email" required="">
<input type="text" placeholder="Subject:" name="Subjet" id="Subjet">
<textarea title="Input message" placeholder="Mensaje:" name="Message" rows="20" cols="20" id="Message" required=""></textarea>
<input title="Input result" placeholder="25 + 25 = ?" type="text" name="Captcha" id="Captcha" required="">
<p id="wrongCaptcha"> Try again </p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="send" class="submit-button">
</form>
This is the JS
function validateForm(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var x = document.forms["contactForm"]["Captcha"].value;
if (x != 50) {//if captcha is wrong
$("#Captcha").addClass("wrongCaptchaEntered");
$("#Captcha").css("animation-name" , "none");
setTimeout (function(){
$("#Captcha").css("animation-name" , "changeBorder");
},100);
if ($("#wrongCaptcha").css("display") == "none"){
$("#wrongCaptcha").slideDown();
}
}
else { //if captcha is correct
var formAction = $("#contactForm").attr("action");
if (formAction == "/contactEngine.php"){
var formData = $("#contactForm").serialize();
$.post( formAction, formData, function(data){
console.log (data);
$(".formulario").changeTo({content: "<h2 class='section-title BackgroundGradientBlack'>"+ data +"</h2>"});
});
}
}
return false;
}
And the PHP
<?php
$EmailFrom = "EmailFrom#test.com";
$EmailTo = "EmailTo#test.com";
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name']));
$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Email']));
$Subject = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Subjet']));
$Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Message']));
$email_content = "Frontpage";
$email_content .= "\nNombre: $Name";
$email_content .= "\nEmail: $Email";
$email_content .= "\nMotivo: $Subject";
$email_content .= "\nMensaje: $Message";
$email_headers = "From: <$EmailFrom>";
if (mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $email_content, $email_headers)) {
http_response_code(200);
echo "Mensaje enviado";
} else {
http_response_code(500);
echo "Error";
}
?>
Thanks!

Probably some bot that's testing the PHP endpoint it can see in your JS and is sending data to it, trying to cause havoc. I bet if you logged the $_POST variable every time an email was sent, you'd seen a lot of spammy nonsense in some $_POST variables. Emails are blank just because the bots aren't smart enough to know which keys to use in its POSTs.

Adding a Google Re-CAPTCHA form to PHP "Contact us form"

I'm a newbie in terms of web develpoment and I'm stuck with an issue with a contact form on which I'm trying to attach a captcha field to prevent spamming.
Before adding the captcha form, the code worked and the e-mails were sent.After adding the captcha validation , the JS file shows a success confirmation message but the e-mails were not sent.
Code us detailed below :
HTML:
<form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate>
<div class="row control-group">
<div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
//rest of the inputs
<div class="form-group">
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="site_key_here"></div>
<span class="help-block" style="display: none;">Please check that you are not a robot.</span>
</div>
<br>
<div id="success"></div>
<div class="row">
<div class="form-group col-xs-12">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success btn-lg" id="submit">Send</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
PHP:
<?php
function errorResponse ($messsage) {
header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
return false;
}
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['phone']) || empty($_POST['message']) || !filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Create the email and send the message
$to = '_email_here_';
$email_subject = "Contact Form from website: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply#yourdomain.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply#yourdomain.com.
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
//MY CODE STARTS HERE
// getting the captcha
$captcha = "";
if (isset($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"])) {
$captcha = $_POST["g-recaptcha-response"];
}
else {
return false;
}
// handling the captcha and checking if it's ok
$secret = "_secret_key_here_";
$google_url = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=".$secret."&response=".$captcha."&remoteip=".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$google_response = file_get_contents($google_url);
$response = json_decode($google_response, true);
// if the captcha is cleared with google, send the mail and return.
if ($response["success"] != false) {
// send the actual mail
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
// return goes back to the ajax, so the user can know if everything is ok
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
//AND ENDS HERE
?>
Before the captcha validation the code was:
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;

The solution was found here : https://bootstrapious.com/p/bootstrap-recaptcha
Topic closed.

PHP contact form will just refresh the page after submission.

After searching for about 3 hours i still can't figure this one out.
I Have a html template with a contact form and im trying to make it work using a PHP script.
I changed the template to PHP and pasted the PHP form script in it. everything is working fine except the confirmation text.
After a successful submission it will just refresh the page instead of printing "Your mail has been sent successfuly ! Thank you for your feedback". i do not want a redirect, i just want it to print on the same page.
Any ideas?
I got a sample of my code.
<form action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contact-form" method="post" class="form afsana-form" role="form">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 form-group">
<input class="form-control afsana-style" id="name" name="name" placeholder="name" type="text" required autofocus />
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 form-group">
<input class="form-control afsana-style" id="email" name="email" placeholder="email" type="email" required />
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 form-group">
<textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message" placeholder="message" rows="5"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 form-group">
<button class="btn btn-primary afsana-btn" name="submit" value="verzenden" type="submit">Verzenden <i class="ion-arrow-graph-up-right"></i></button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST["submit"])){
// Checking For Blank Fields..
if($_POST["name"]==""||$_POST["email"]==""||$_POST["message"]==""){
echo "Fill All Fields..";
}else{
// Check if the "Sender's Email" input field is filled out
$email=$_POST['email'];
// Sanitize E-mail Address
$email =filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
// Validate E-mail Address
$email= filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
if (!$email){
echo "Invalid Sender's Email";
}
else{
$subject = (Contact_form);
$message = $_POST['message'];
$headers = 'From:'. $email . "\r\n"; // Sender's Email
$headers .= 'Cc:'. $email2 . "\r\n"; // Carbon copy to Sender
// Message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
// Send Mail By PHP Mail Function
mail("something#domain.com", $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Your mail has been sent successfuly ! Thank you for your feedback";
}
}
}
?>

First, you have this: $subject = (Contact_form); which should throw an error, so I assume you have error reporting turned off. When developing, you should have error reporting on so you can see errors in your code... Else you are just working blind. I don't mean by throwing tacky error_reporting(0) in every file either, I mean to set your error reporting level to E_ALL in your php.ini.
You also have: $headers .= 'Cc:'. $email2 . "\r\n";
However, $email2 is not defined anywhere, so you would get an error here too.. which is why it's important to test with error reporting on.
See if this works:
<?php
$error = '';
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if ( !empty($_POST['name']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['message']) )
{
$email = $_POST['email'];
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
if ( $email = filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) )
{
$subject = '(Contact_form)';
$message = $_POST['message'];
$headers = 'From:'. $email . "\r\n"; // Sender's Email
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
if ( $result = mail("something#domain.com", $subject, $message, $headers) ) {
$error = 'Success';
} else {
$error = 'There was an error sending your email!';
}
} else {
$error = 'Invalid Email Address!';
}
} else {
$error = 'Please fill all fields.';
}
}
?>
<p><?= $error ?></p>
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name" value="" /><br />
<input type="email" name="email" value="" /><br />
<textarea name="message" rows="5"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

Try to put in $subject just a string value like:
$subject = 'Test subject';
change also the following line to this (there is no $email2 defined):
$headers .= 'Cc:'. $email . "\r\n"; // Carbon copy to Sender
and give it a try. You can also put as first line of your code
<?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ?>
and check for errors when submiting the form.

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i've got a basic php script for simple contact form with name, email and message inputs.
I wish to include few more options in it but don't know how to. I've searched but couldn't find all in one solution for. I would like to:
1. Send a copy to senders email
I would like to include input for sender to have an option to receive a copy of he's submit to he's email if he checkes that input in the form.
2. Upload a file
Also if possible in the same php script i wish to give a possibility for the sender to attach a file (preferably img extensions only) when submiting a form.
3. Thank you message
Not sure about this, but now i have a simple thank you message in echo when form is submited. If possible, i wish for this message to stay visible for 5 seconds then redirect to index.html.
Here is php for the form:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent="Name: $name \nEmail: $email \nMessage: $message";
$recipient = "test123#...";
$subject = "Contact";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo
"<div style='display: block; text-align: center;'>" .
"<span style='font-size: 14px;'>You message has been sent!</span>" .
"<a href='index.html'>Go back</a>" .
"</div>";
?>
and demo jsfiddle of the form setup.
Thanks for any help.

This is a global setup just to let you know how I would do this (if I wanted to do this on 1 page, but it's better to make functions, etc.)
EDIT: Please note also that I don't know if this works. Maybe there are errors but I have done this just to get you started.
<?php
//Check if form submitted
if (isset($_POST)) {
//this all will run when form is submitted
//First sanitize you data thats been posted
$name = htmlentities($_POST['name'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$email = htmlentities($_POST['email'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$message = htmlentities($_POST['message'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
//make a error array to hold errors
$error = array();
//check if fields are not empty you can also do other checks
if (!empty($name) || !empty($email) || !empty($message))
//here you could do extra checks.. like check if emai is really a email...
if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
//email invalid
array_push($error, 'email not valid');
}
//for image you could also do a if...
if(isset($_FILES)) {
$uploads_dir = 'YOUR DIR'
$name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
$type = $_FILES['image']['type'];
$size = $_FILES['image']['size'];
$temp = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
$error = $_FILES['image']['error'];
if ($error === 4) {
//No file was selected
return false;
}
else
{
//do your stuff with the image here...
move_uploaded_file($temp, "$uploads_dir/$temp");
}
///you could do more ifs.. but if all is good then do the mail
$subject = 'new contact form message';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
$success = "here the success message";
} else {
//some fields are empty
array_push($error, 'some fields are empty');
}
?>
<!-- THE ENCTYPE IS NEEDED FOR IMAGES -->
<form action="submit.php" name="contact-form" id="contact-form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="name" placeholder="Name" type="text" id="name" required />
<input name="email" placeholder="Email" type="email" id="email" required />
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Message" id="message" required></textarea>
<input type="file" id="upload-file" accept="image/*" />
<div class="clear"></div>
<input type="checkbox" id="copy" name="copy" />
<label for="copy">Send a copy to my email</label>
<div class="clear"></div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" form="contact-form" name="submit-form" />
</form>
<?php
if (isset($success) && !empty($success)) {
//echo the success
echo $success
}
if (isset($error) && !empty($error)) {
//loop trough error
foreach ($error as $e) {
echo $e;
}
}
?>