PHP Mail Function Isn't Working

Question

I'm currently working on a web portfolio site for one of my web design courses, and it will hopefully become my actual portfolio when finished. Part of the assignment requires a "contact me" section for the site, which would include a form that validates input data and redirects the user on a proper submission. I have this finished, but I want it to actually email me when some submits the form. Here is my code:

$admin_mail = example@mail.com
-code to validate form-
$headers = array("First Name: " => $_POST['first_name'],
                        "Last Name: " => $_POST['last_name'],
                        "Email: " => $_POST['email'],
                        "Company: " => $_POST['company']);
$message = wordwrap($_POST['message'],70);
mail($admin_mail,"Portfolio Message",$message,$headers);
header("location: success.html");

I checked both the $headers and $message variables with the print_r function, and they're working properly. All of the entered data is being added and the page redirects correctly, but the email doesn't appear to send at all. I checked that my webhost can send and receive emails, and that appears to work correctly as well.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

There doesn't seem to be anything in the spam folder. I also have my webhost set to forward emails to my personal email address, and there isn't anything on that account either — Jordan U., Sep 08 '15 at 04:48
I updated the my coding to the following, using the headers section of the manual as a guideline, but it still doesn't seem to work. `$headers = "From: ".$_POST['email'] . "\r\n" . $_POST['first_name'] . "\r\n" . $_POST['last_name'] . "\r\n" . $_POST['company'] . "\r\n" . 'CC: '.$admin_mail; $message = wordwrap($_POST['message'], 70, "\n", false); mail($admin_mail,"Portfolio Message",$message,$headers); header("location: success.html");` — Jordan U., Sep 08 '15 at 05:05
This question, and all the bug-filled answers posted so far, are a good example of why you should never call `mail()` yourself. Use a library that will do it correctly - for example [PHPMailer](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) that you tagged this question with. — Synchro, Sep 08 '15 at 06:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '15 at 04:51

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just check..by imputing the real email Id

<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com";
$subject = "My subject";
$txt = "Hello world!";
$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com" . "\r\n" .
"CC: somebodyelse@example.com";

mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers);
?>

answered Sep 08 '15 at 04:51

Suman Singh

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 05:00

headers can be added as below

            $headers =  'From: '.$from.''. "\r\n" .
                'Reply-To: '.$from.'' . "\r\n" .
                'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
                $message = htmlspecialchars($body);
                mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 04:52

-1

The $headers is wrong. Do check php mail function docs

answered Sep 08 '15 at 04:52

Basit

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 04:54

(Assuming you don't have step-debug available)

Looks like your location header will be set regardless of whether or not the mail sends. mail() returns boolean, so use something like:

if(mail($admin_mail,"Portfolio Message",$message,$headers)){
  header(...);
}
else{
  // it failed. run some debug here.
}

A jump-start: this is the copy-paste code from a similar contact form on my site. It works like a charm - sends me mail every day. ...well, every day someone uses it :)

$to = 'my.mail@gmail.com';
$subject = 'The Site Contact Request';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

$mail = mail($to, $subject, $m, $headers);
return $mail;

@mahen3d and I use the same header format, and it seems to work for us both. Stringify your assoc. array? — Kevin Ard, Sep 08 '15 at 05:04

PHP Mail Function Isn't Working

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