How to set variable email address in php mail function

Question

I am trying to send an email address from my index.php to form.php file. In form.php I get the email address correctly or prints correctly. But when i am trying to sending an email to that particular email address using php mail() function. It's not working. Can anyone suggest me how to fix this ?

index.php

 <form method="POST" action="Form.php">
 <input type="email"  name="email" placeholder="Email" >
 <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit-form" class="hidden" style="display:none">
 </form>

Form.php

<p>To :'.$_POST["email"].'</p> // showing email address

<?php
 if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $to = $_POST["email"];     // does not sending email
    $subject = 'my subject';
    $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
    $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
    $headers[] = 'From: my@email.com';
    mail($to, $subject, $hippo , implode("\r\n", $headers));
}
?>  
<div id="submitBtn">
<label for="submit-form" class="submitBtn">Submit</label>
</div>

I put the submit button outside the form and using that as a submit button. — Ami Hasan, Feb 19 '17 at 18:02
Edited and that's how i am using submit button. and i don't want to show the submit button in the form so i am using it this way. This is HTML5 attribute. — Ami Hasan, Feb 19 '17 at 18:09
why is this question still open? seems like answers given below have solved this one, yes/no? — Funk Forty Niner, Feb 21 '17 at 13:18
*"no i am not running it in localhost."* - then where are you running this from? a hosted site or your own computer? — Funk Forty Niner, Feb 21 '17 at 13:19
i've declared my whole html document in $hippo as a message. — Ami Hasan, Feb 21 '17 at 13:21
I've solved my question some other way though. but not with the stackoverflow's answers. — Ami Hasan, Feb 21 '17 at 13:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '17 at 18:04

You don't have a submit button in your form and you ask if submit was in form the correct way is

<form method="POST" action="Form.php">
  <input type="email"  name="email" placeholder="Email" >
  <input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>

And now the code of Form.php will work

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '17 at 18:16

Check your headers and mail() function, see if it is actually redirecting you to the form page or not,

try the code below :

index

<form method="POST" action="Form.php">
<input type="email"  name="email" placeholder="Email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit-form">
</form>

Form

$to      = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "My Subject" ;
$message = "Got the mail";
$header = "From: my@email.com\r\n"; 
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

How to set variable email address in php mail function

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