Contact form isn't working (but it says it is!)

Have you tried setting up the headers to be sent along with the form's email? If you set the 'bounce' header you may get the email back so you can see what's going on.````
Return-Path: bounced@yourdomain.com

Looking at their code I see that they are suppressing any errors on the line that actually sends the email:````
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

I'd suggest removing the '@' at the beginning of the line and turning errors on. I put these two lines of code at the top of my PHP scripts while debugging (and comment them out once things are working):````
errorreporting(EALL) ;
iniset('displayerrors', 1) ;

````
You should see plenty of info now (including warnings, etc, caused by other lines of that script). Focus on the stuff related to the 'mail()' line.

Like this? Still not getting any errors/emails back

";
        echo $error."

";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.

";
        die();
    }

    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
    }

    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required

    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.
';
  }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.
';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }

    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";

// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'Return-Path: <bounced@primasmedia.co.uk>'.
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.</bounced@primasmedia.co.uk> 

After you submit the form what's the last few lines of /var/log/mail.log ?

@obs:

After you submit the form what's the last few lines of /var/log/mail.log ?

Nothing is added to mail.log when I submit the form

It's good that you've ruled out any PHP errors. The code doesn't actually check for successes or failure of the call to mail(). The PHP mail() command returns a boolean value (true for success, false for failure).

Try adding this code, replacing the line calling mail():

$success = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
echo 'The email ' . (($success) ? 'worked!' : 'failed.') . '
';

If it says it failed there's something wrong with one (or more) of the variables sent to mail().

The email worked! Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

Still nothing in my inbox or logs though

What's your sendmail_path php.ini setting? (You can get this from phpinfo();), make sure you test this from a web page not the command line since they use different php.ini files.

What happens when you use sendmail() instead of mail()? If that doesn't make a difference post your $email_to & $headers values. You may want to get them from "view page source" in your browser and put them between code tags to try to preserve some of their formatting.

@Main Street James:

What happens when you use sendmail() instead of mail()? If that doesn't make a difference post your $email_to & $headers values. You may want to get them from "view page source" in your browser and put them between code tags to try to preserve some of their formatting.

When I try and use sendmail I get

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sendmail() in /var/www/villacalmia.co.uk/send_form_email.php on line 74

My email_to and header values are posted above, or are you asking for something else?

@obs:

What's your sendmail_path php.ini setting? (You can get this from phpinfo();), make sure you test this from a web page not the command line since they use different php.ini files.

It's

sendmail_path = /usr/local/bin/phpsendmail

in my php.ini

Where should I place it on a webpage to get it to display and output? Should I just put it in a new test.php file with nothing but that in it or incorporate it into my sendfromemail.php above?

Well that looks wrong sendmail_path = /usr/local/bin/phpsendmail try changing it to /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

To create a phpinfo page just create a new page and put
in it and load it from your browser.

@obs:

Well that looks wrong sendmail_path = /usr/local/bin/phpsendmail try changing it to /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

To create a phpinfo page just create a new page and put
in it and load it from your browser.

Okay, the path was the same when I created the php file so I went back to my php.ini file and changed it to what you specified. I'm still getting the message

The email worked!
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

But no email is coming through, nothing in my logs either

phpinfo() here: http://villacalmia.co.uk/test.php

Your sendmail_path hasn't changed make sure you're editing /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and you've restarted apache.

@obs:

Your sendmail_path hasn't changed make sure you're editing /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and you've restarted apache.

Ah, my mistake! Thanks - that's it finally working :mrgreen:

Good, happy to help :)