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hendrix940

Guys, I need help!! I'm banging my head on the wall trying to resolve!

When I click 'SEND' I'm getting an error message on line 33. I can't figure out what's going on!

Please, your help is GREATLY appreciated.

chrisburton

@hendrix940 Post your code but remove any sensitive information, first.

hendrix940

@chrisburton, I'm new to the forums, can you please advise me the best way to do this? Thanks!!

hendrix940

    <?php
                $subject = "Comment/Question from the site.";
        $message = "$question";
        $mail_from = "$email";

        $header = "from: $name <$mail_from>";

        $to = "email@gmail.com"

        $send_contact = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

        if($send_contact){
          echo "<p>We've received your email.  We will email you back shortly.</p>";
        }
        else {
          echo "Error.  Please go back and try again.";
        }
              ?>

hendrix940

Okay, that's my PHP

hendrix940

   <div class="content-half">
                  <form action="" method="post" id="contact-form">
                      <div class="contact-form-input contact-input-wrapper">
                          <label class="contact-label">Name:</label>
                          <input type="text" name="name" class="required" />
                      </div>
                      <div class="contact-form-input contact-input-wrapper">
                          <label class="contact-label">E-mail:</label>
                          <input type="text" name="email" class="required email" />
                      </div>
                      <div class="contact-form-textarea contact-input-wrapper">
                          <label class="contact-label">Letter:</label>
                          <textarea name="question" rows="" cols="" class="required"></textarea>
                      </div>
                      <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send" class="button send-button">
                      <div class="clear"></div>
                  </form>

chrisburton

@hendrix940 I only want what's on line 33 for now. So just create an empty space/line, hit the spacebar 4x and paste.

hendrix940

that's the html calling on the .php. Did I include everything?

hendrix940

          $send_contact = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

hendrix940

Thank you sir. Above is line 33.

chrisburton

@hendrix940 What's this about?

  $to = "email@gmail.com"

Shouldn't it be:

  $to = "email@gmail.com";

hendrix940

that very well could be it @chrisburton ... testing now.

hendrix940

@chrisburton, now it is sending (THANK YOU), HOWEVER, it's not sending any of the information from the text fields. Just an email shows up with no information in the inbox.

traq

Next time, include the actual error message. PHP does reasonably well at telling you what the problem is - you don't have to guess.

traq

...HOWEVER, it's not sending any of the information from the text fields. Just an email shows up with no information in the inbox.

      $message = "$question";
      $mail_from = "$email";

      $header = "from: $name <$mail_from>";

where do you define the variables $question, $email, $name, $mail_from, etc.? Are you sure they contain the values you expect?

hendrix940

Okay thanks @traq, currently I am not receiving an error message, after the above fix that @chrisburton recommended. Emails are being sent, HOWEVER they are just blank emails, no information from the text fields is being sent over.

hendrix940

@traq, sir, I do not know the answer. I had another gentleman write the PHP code for me and I only know what I sent over. Please your advise is greatly appreciated.

hendrix940

Okay, I'm figuring this out. I just have one field now that is not sending over. If I'm unable to figure this out by the evening, I'll post again. @chrisburton, thank you again for your help. @traq, thank you.

traq

If you need more help, you'll probably need to share the entire script with us (which is not easy to do in a css-tricks forum post). I'd suggest writing a gist on github:

(1). copy+paste your entire script

(2). ***** out any sensitive info (like private email addresses, usernames, passwords, database credentials, etc.)

(3). click [Create Public Gist].

Then, share the URL with us.

raman2572

@hendrix940 can you paste the whole source file here, i am also confused with contact forms

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