Contact Form from CSS Tricks wont work

[michaeloneill]

Hi everyone,

I downloaded the contact form in the download section of this site.

I put my own emails into it but changed nothing else.

I uploaded to a test server – http://michaeloneilldesign.com/formtest

It wont work!! I dont know why. Php is enabled on my server.

here is the contactengine.php file… am I doing something wrong here ?

// CHANGE THE VARIABLES BELOW



$EmailFrom = "[email protected]";

$EmailTo = "[email protected]";

$Subject = "Contact Form Submission";



$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Tel = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));



// prepare email body text

$Body = "";

$Body .= "Name: ";

$Body .= $Name;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Tel: ";

$Body .= $Tel;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Email: ";

$Body .= $Email;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Message: ";

$Body .= $Message;

$Body .= "n";



// send email

$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");



// redirect to success page

// CHANGE THE URL BELOW TO YOUR "THANK YOU" PAGE

if ($success){

print "";

}

else{

print "";

}

?>

Thanks for your help

[DogsGhost]

Possibly because your form has an input named City, but its never mentioned in the contactengine.php file. Likewise the contactengine.php file is looking for a value from a input named Tel, but none exists in your form.

[whiteInkDesign]

@DogsGhost
I’ve had that issue before, but my form would still submit and redirect correctly, it would just give a blank value for the missing input name. So I’m thinking it might be something else.

[michaeloneill]

@DogsGhost I have changed that but it still wont work! Any other ideas ?

[michaeloneill]

Ive just tried it on a different server and it works perfectly. The link above is hosted with Godaddy… There must be something getting in the way on the hosting end! Anyone know anything about this ?

[DogsGhost]

oh, godaddy hosting…. yep, you have to direct forms through one of their specified mailer php files located in the site’s root directory.

[Astra]

I also had such problem, and frankly speaking i am not good at it, so I found a program that builds different kinds of forms. Now all my forms work great.

[michaeloneill]

@Fourize I got it working… In Godaddy in your control panel, go to form mail and put your email address in…. Then in your html file in the form tag put action=”gdform.php” Its a file preinstalled on your server!

[JoeBass]

Total rookie hear and after reading this post i could still use some help please. I am using the Fast Secure Contact Form and I get the test message followed by a failure message. I have changed email from to the godaddy supplied address. I dont know if i found the specified mailer php files located in the site’s root directory. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Regards

[Historical Forums User]

I am using the contact form and it works perfectly, the only trouble I have is that people fill the form in Bulgarian and the mail I receive is not readable. I tried defining it in dreamweaver with lang=”bg” but it doesn’t help.. I only receive some symbols and nothing readable.

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