Contact form: not receiving e-mail

Question

I am making my record label's official website and just arrived to the contact page of it. I had tried to set it up in a different way, asking help by Google with no positive result! Here you can see my actual using contact form's php part:

<?php
    $name=$_REQUEST['name'];
    $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
    $message = $_REQUEST['message'];
    $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'];
    $from = 'From: my website name'; 
    $to = 'my@email.com'; 
    $subject = 'New message from the Website!';

    $body = "From: $name\n Subject:\n $subject E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message ";

    if ($_POST['submit']) {
        if ($name != '' && $email != '') {
            if ($human == '4') {                 
               if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
                   echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
                } else { 
                    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
                } 
            } else if ($_POST['submit'] && $human != '4') {
                echo '<p>You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly!</p>';
            }
        } else {
            echo '<p>You need to fill in all required fields!!</p>';
        }
    }

    //redirect to the 'thank you' page
    header('Location: contact.html');
?>

Here is the HTML form:

<form role="form"  action="send.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
            <div class="form-group">
              <label for="name">name</label>
              <input type="name" id="name" placeholder="Your Name *">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
              <label for="email">Email</label>
              <input type="email" id="email" placeholder="Your Email *">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
              <label for="subject">Subject</label>
              <input type="text" placeholder="Subject" id="subject">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
              <label for="message">message</label>
              <textarea id="message" cols="30" rows="7" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
            </div>
             <div class="form-group">
              <label for="text" >*What is 2+2? (Anti-spam)</label>
              <input name="human" placeholder="2 + 2 =">
            </div>

            <button type="submit" class="btn-default">Send it</button>
          </form>

What is my mistake?

Is this on a local server? Or a live website server? Have you checked the spam filters? Have you tested multiple email addresses? What have you done to troubleshoot this? — John Conde, Jan 13 '14 at 13:54
If you're just typing in the name in the from field, put in an email address instead and see if it bounces with some info. — , Jan 13 '14 at 13:55
Tested on live website. There is no any emails in the inbox or spam box. After the submit it gets back to the same contact page! — Roland, Jan 13 '14 at 14:04
You forgot to add `$human=$_REQUEST['human'];` @Roland which is most likely the reason it's not working. — Funk Forty Niner, Jan 13 '14 at 14:08

Maarkoize · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-13T15:28:03.163

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You are asking for $_POST['submit'] which is never set, because no input field or button of your form is named "submit".

Change your button to:

<input type="submit" class="btn-default" name="submit" value="Send it">

or set a hidden field named submit:

<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="value">

And then your redirect will fail with the "Header already sent" error, because you must not have output before a header() call. Put the header() call in an else part of your if($_POST['submit'])

The same is for every other input field. The name is missing. Instead you use the name as the type. The type should be "text" everywhere.

edited Jan 13 '14 at 15:28

answered Jan 13 '14 at 14:10

Maarkoize

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Can you (just for debugging) remove the header call and replace it with an echo which outputs something? Then we can see, what the script does. – Maarkoize Jan 13 '14 at 14:25
can you please help a bit more pls, i an a newcomer in programming So i will delete the header call and put instead of it: echo 'what i need to put here' – Roland Jan 13 '14 at 14:35
It doesn't matter. Just type `echo "test";` to see, if "test" is displayed. – Maarkoize Jan 13 '14 at 15:03
got back this: "You need to fill in all required fields!! test" But i had filled everything in! :O – Roland Jan 13 '14 at 15:08
Ah okay..that's the same error - you must name your input fields with name="thename" - for example name="name" or name="email". And the type should be "text" everywhere. – Maarkoize Jan 13 '14 at 15:27
nice! Thank you so much Marcel! it worked! and thanks for everybody who tried to help me! – Roland Jan 13 '14 at 16:42

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '14 at 13:59

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first try with plain function with hard coded parameters to mail() function, make sure you are receiving it.

example :

mail('your@email.com', 'hi', 'hello', 'from@email.com');

answered Jan 13 '14 at 13:59

codepiper

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Shouldn't it be a comment? – Ofir Baruch Jan 13 '14 at 13:59
check the similar post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8803994/php-mail-not-working-for-some-reason – codepiper Jan 13 '14 at 14:08

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