Contact form (Php and html

Question

So I've been using a contact form, I created some php and html form but it sends everything to my email, except the email that the user puts in the form. Been trying all the stuff below, nothing works yet

PHP:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$mail_to = 'email@email.com';
$subject = 'Message from a site visitor '.$name;

$body_message = 'From: '.$name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$message;

$headers = 'From: '.$email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
        alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');
        window.location = 'contact_page.html';
    </script>
<?php
}
else { ?>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
        alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to gordon@template-help.com');
        window.location = 'contact_page.html';
    </script>
<?php
}
?>

HTML:

            <form action="contact.php" method="post">
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-md-4">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Name">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Email">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="subject" placeholder="Subject">
                </div>


                <div class="col-md-8">
                <textarea class="form-control" id="message" rows="25" cols="10" placeholder="  Message Texts..."></textarea>
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default submit-btn form_submit">SEND MESSAGE</button>
                </div>
            </div>
            </form>

There seems to be no error in the code you have provided, though can you verify by adding `echo $email;` to check if the value is being received or not. — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:05
Sorry for sounding like a noob, but I am. Where would I add that — sabregames, Nov 13 '16 at 19:06
You need to add `name`-tags to your input fields. Without them, they won't be posted. Example: ` — M. Eriksson, Nov 13 '16 at 19:07
I was wondering about the same thing, if the name tags are the issue. Anyways try adding it right after `$email = $_POST['email'];` — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:08
By name tags we mean, `` like add `name=""` within the input tag — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:09
You might want to look into a basic tutorial about HTML forms... the `name`-tag is the name you use to fetch it with `$_POST` in PHP. So no `name`-tag, no `$_POST`-data. — M. Eriksson, Nov 13 '16 at 19:10
Nothing happened, but I completed the form and received this in my email From: test E-mail: Message: asdasd — sabregames, Nov 13 '16 at 19:16
Oh sorry, remove or comment out those javascripts (`window.location...`) to see the output — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:17
You might want to replace your email here with "example@domain.com" to avoid spam — , Nov 13 '16 at 19:20
Replace your whole php with just this `` and see the browser output, not your mails. If it displays the email then the value is being sent, else something is wrong with HTML part not PHP. — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:24
Did that, entered the form with random information, hit sent and the form cleared like it normally does — sabregames, Nov 13 '16 at 19:27
Would be nice if possible, if someone could just provide me a new php contact form it only needs to be basic — sabregames, Nov 13 '16 at 19:29
Are you using jQuery Ajax? If yes, please add the complete code — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:29
I'm not able to figure this out with this part of code. Can you mail me the php and html pages? — Manikiran, Nov 13 '16 at 19:31

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '16 at 19:39

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After going through your script.js file, I finally figured out the problem. The variable sent is not email while its emaild. So your PHP correction would be:

$email = $_POST['emaild'];

answered Nov 13 '16 at 19:39

Manikiran

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Btw, you are using jQuery Ajax. – Manikiran Nov 13 '16 at 19:41
Do I change anything under the html file and your sure the php is "emaild" cause I am not receiving any email now – sabregames Nov 13 '16 at 19:43
It worked!!! Thank you so much! – sabregames Nov 13 '16 at 19:44
You are welcome ;) – Manikiran Nov 13 '16 at 19:46
I would +1 it but my rep is too low, Thanks so much it really helped – sabregames Nov 13 '16 at 19:48
Accepting my answer would do :) – Manikiran Nov 13 '16 at 19:49

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