Mail function not working & need help showing conformation mesage

[Marcus2000]

Hi people, please can some one help me out with a bit of php for the 'mail function'?

 

All i want to do is have the end user fill out the form, hit submit then either have the user directed to a thank you page or have pop up

message stating that the information has been sent.

 

At the moment the code i have does not seem to be sending the mail and aditionally i have no idea where or how to start writing the code for the thank you page or the

conformation pop up message.

 

Please can some one show me the light on this one, i am really just starting out with php and finding it real hard.

 

Anyway guys this is the code i have, please let us know what i'm doing wrong and what i need to add to it.

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "my_email@mydomain";
$subject = "Contact Form";

$name = 		$_POST['name'];
$comp_name = 	$_POST['company_name'];
$email = 		$_POST['email'];
$phone = 		$_POST['contact_number'];
$location = 	$_POST['location'];
$message = 		$_POST['message'];

$body = 		"From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Company Name: $comp_name\n Contact Number: $phone:\n Location: $location:\n Message:\n $message";

mail($to, $subject, $body); }


?>

 

 

Hope some one can help, many thanks in advance.

 

Cheers.

[manvaril]

you didn't post your contact form but i'll help on this one,

 

first put this at the top of the page your form is on:

Forgot to add that you need to make sure the thanks.php file is there because once they submit the form it will push them to that page, if there is an error then it will keep them on the form and you will need to add the code at the bottom of this post.

<?php
$err = "";
if (isset($_GET["send"] == 1)) {
$err = send_message($_POST);
if (!$err)
	header("Location: thanks.php");
	exit;
}
?>

make sure your form's action looks like this or close to it:

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "?send=1"; ?>" method="post">

here is your new code, it should work just put it in a file and include it above the code above

<?php
function send_message($vars) {
	$email  = "my_email@mydomain.com";

	$body  = "From: " . $vars["name"] . "\n";
	$body .= "E-Mail: " . $vars["email"] . "\n";
	$body .= "Company Name: " . $vars["comp_name"] . "\n";
	$body .= "Contact Number: " . $vars["phone"] . "\n";
	$body .= "Location: " . $vars["location"] . "\n";
	$body .= "Message:\n " . $vars["message"] . "";

	$mail_err = mail($email, "Contact Form", $body, "From: " . $vars["email"] . "\nReply-To: " . $vars["email"] . "");

	if (!$mail_err) {
			$err = "The message could not be sent due to a problem with the mail server.";
	}
	return $err;
}
?>

 

Add this to your form somewhere, around the top of your form, it will output any error messages that come back from the code that I gave you.

<php
if ($err) {
echo "Error:<br />";
echo $err . "";
}
?>

intergrate it in your html somewhere or put it in a table, whatever you do make sure that it's there or the person won't know what errors are being kicked out.