I have analyzed a lot of similar questions that pertains to this situation and I am still unable to successfully complete this task. So I apologize for the redundancy.
I created a website form and I am trying to send the user's information to my GoDaddy Webmail account (and from there I send a copy to my gmail account). So, when I've had endless trials of sending a user's information to my email, it fails every time.
I've also tried running PHPMail class in some other file I created, and it tells me that it's having a hard time connecting to the SMTP server. I've made sure to that everything was correct and it was still not connecting. Please help!
HTML FORM:
<h3>Send us a Message</h3>
<form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate action="contact_me.php" method="post">
<div class="control-group form-group">
<div class="controls">
<label>Full Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your name.">
<p class="help-block"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group form-group">
<div class="controls">
<label>Phone Number:</label>
<input type="tel" class="form-control" id="phone" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your phone number.">
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group form-group">
<div class="controls">
<label>Email Address:</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your email address.">
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group form-group">
<div class="controls">
<label>Message:</label>
<textarea rows="10" cols="100" class="form-control" id="message" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your message" maxlength="999" style="resize:none"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div id="success"></div>
<!-- For success/fail messages -->
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Send Message</button>
</form>
</div>
The contact.php form it calls:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['phone']) ||
empty($_POST['message']) ||
!filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email_address = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
// Create the email and send the message
$to = 'cochranlawoffice@cochranlawoffice.com'; // Add your email address inbetween the '' replacing yourname@yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.
$email_subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply@yourdomain.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply@yourdomain.com.
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
/*$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array(
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '25',
'auth' => true,
'username' => 'cochranlawoffice@cochranlawoffice.com', //your gmail account
'password' => 'password' // your password
));
// Send the mail
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $email_subject, $headers, $body); */
mail($to,$email_subject,$body,$headers);
return true;
?>
Here is the class that I was using to run the PHPMail and getting the error of not being able to connect:
<?php
/*
*
* This example shows how to handle a simple contact form.
*/
$msg = '';
//Don't run this unless we're handling a form submission
if (array_key_exists('email', $_POST)) {
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require './PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "cochranlawoffice@cochranlawoffice.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
//Use a fixed address in your own domain as the from address
//**DO NOT** use the submitter's address here as it will be forgery
//and will cause your messages to fail SPF checks
$mail->setFrom('donotreply@email.com', 'name');
//Send the message to yourself, or whoever should receive contact for submissions
$mail->addAddress('cochranlawoffice@cochranlawoffice.com', 'John Doe');
//Put the submitter's address in a reply-to header
//This will fail if the address provided is invalid,
//in which case we should ignore the whole request
if ($mail->addReplyTo($_POST['email'], $_POST['name'])) {
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer contact form';
//Keep it simple - don't use HTML
$mail->isHTML(false);
//Build a simple message body
$mail->Body = <<<EOT
Email: {$_POST['email']}
Name: {$_POST['name']}
Message: {$_POST['message']}
EOT;
//Send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
//The reason for failing to send will be in $mail->ErrorInfo
//but you shouldn't display errors to users - process the error, log it on your server.
$msg = 'Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again later. Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
$msg = 'Message sent! Thanks for contacting us.';
}
} else {
$msg = 'Invalid email address, message ignored.';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Contact form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Contact us</h1>
<?php if (!empty($msg)) {
echo "<h2>$msg</h2>";
} ?>
<form method="POST">
<label for="name">Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"></label><br>
<label for="email">Email address: <input type="email" name="email" id="email"></label><br>
<label for="message">Message: <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="8" cols="20"></textarea></label><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
</body>
