Contact form stopped working

[pkinchla]

So My contact form was working fine for awhile and for some unknown reason it stopped working. I am pretty sure I have not altered the php at all and everything looks to be in order. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Here is the php:

$name = $_REQUEST ;

$email = $_REQUEST ;

$comment = $_REQUEST ;



mail( "[email protected]", "Feedback Form Results",

$comment, "From: $email" );

header( "Location: http://paulkinchladesign.com/formfill.html" );

?>

here is the markup:

Name







Email







Comment

here is the page:

page with contact form

[Tim_at_PlattFormAd]

Not sure if this will make a difference, but in your PHP you are grabbing the form values using $_REQUEST. Your form is set to method=”post” — meaning you should maybe be using the $_POST option instead?

$name = $_POST ;

$email = $_POST ;

$comment = $_POST ;

?>

[richtestani]

You should write conditions to make sure things are working.

if(mail(...)) {all good}

Or look elsewhere in your page, sometimes it’s not related to that part.

[pkinchla]

Thanks for the responses, So I made the changes suggested and I get served this message when completing the form now:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/content/p/k/i/pkinchla3345/html/contact.php on line 7

So I should assume the error is in line 7 I guess? Sorry Php is realllly new to me.

[Ethan27]

Hey dude

PHP is new to me too. One thing I have heard is to stay away from $_REQUEST.

Also if the error is on line 7 its worth looking at line 6.

Sorry I couldnt help more but like you Im still learning.

[Tim_at_PlattFormAd]

Could you post what your contact.php code looks like now?

[pkinchla]

Yeah I have made some changes and got it too work I think here is the code again:

 
$to = "[email protected]";

$subject = $_POST ;

$email = $_POST ;

$comment = $_POST ;

$headers = "From: $email";

$sent = mail($to, $subject, $comment, $headers) ;

if($sent)

{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }

else

{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }

?> 

I also changed the markup slightly:

Name







Email







Comment

It seems that some go through and some do not at varying timeframes that I receive them in my email.

Thanks again for all the help!

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