Contact form not sending email (Bootstrap)

Question

I have created my first website with Bootstrap but having a problem with my contact form because it doesn't actually send the emails to my email address.

I'm not sure what is going on, because I have included my email address and have specified that it needs to be sent 'to' it.

This is the PHP code for the contact form:

<?php

    if(isset($_POST['email'])) {



    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED

    $email_to = "info@cheappockets.com";

    $email_subject = "Contact form enquiry";





    function died($error) {

        // your error code can go here

        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";

        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";

        echo $error."<br /><br />";

        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";

        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.<br />';

   }

    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";

   if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {

    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

   }

   if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {

    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

   }

   if(strlen($comments) < 2) {

    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';

   }

   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" .

'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

?>



<!-- include your own success html here -->



Thank you for your email. We will be in touch with you very soon. 
Kind regards, 
Cheappockets Team



<?php

}

?>

How I can correct this so that it will function correctly?

The actual form is located on [link] (http://cheappockets.com) — Paulina994, Jul 02 '15 at 10:08
HTML code does not send email in anyway. Doesn't matter if you use bootstrap or not — raj454raj, Jul 02 '15 at 10:10
@raj454raj Yes I'm aware but it's not allowing me to paste in PHP - apparantly its too long to do so :/ — Paulina994, Jul 02 '15 at 10:11

Iolo · Answer 1 · 2015-07-02T10:19:34.727

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HTML doesn't send emails. It can only submit form data to a script on a server written in another language like PHP. PHP only runs on a server, it won't run in the browser.

That PHP script (at www.yoursite.com/submit.php for example) in turn then takes that information and sends the actual email.

The location of the script you want to submit the form to is added under the action attribute of the <form> element. See the MDN or w3Schools pages about forms and actions for more details

edited Jul 02 '15 at 10:19

answered Jul 02 '15 at 10:13

Iolo

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I understand. I have a PHP file but it's not allowing me to post it with the HTML as it's too long. Will change the HTML to PHP now. – Paulina994 Jul 02 '15 at 10:20
Thanks for your suggestions @Iolo but when I use the example from W2Schools, the form is doing more than it was before - it's like progressing to send but doesn't actually send :S really confused about that. Any suggestions? – Paulina994 Jul 02 '15 at 10:38

Contact form not sending email (Bootstrap)

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