PHP not being called in contact form when submitted

Asked May 07 '17 at 21:59

Active May 07 '17 at 22:01

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Before this is marked as a duplicate please actually read what I have to say. It is not a matter of the email is not being sent, the PHP is not actually being called when the submit button is clicked.

Code

<?php 
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $formcontent="From: $name \n Message: $message";
    $recipient = "reviews@itssimplytech.co.uk";
    $subject = "Simply Tech Contact Form";
    $headers = 'From: '$email"\r\n".
    'Reply-To: '$email"\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $headers) or die("Error!");  
    echo "Thank You!";
    ?>
    <a data-scroll href="#contact"></a>
    <?php
}
?>
<form class="contact-form" action="" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" required>
    <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required>
    <textarea rows="5" name="message" placeholder="Say Something..." required></textarea>
    <input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Submit">
</form> <!--  /.contact-form  -->

When the form is submitted the page just refreshes and the form is cleared but I don't think it is calling the PHP since no email is sent and no messages are displayed nor does it scroll back down to contact. Which this line should make it do.

<a data-scroll href="#contact"></a>

edited May 07 '17 at 22:01

asked May 07 '17 at 21:59

ItsSimplyEddie

@chris85 just edited the original post explaining that :p – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:01
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Do basic debugging. Add `print_r($_POST)`, what `$_POST` values are shown? Does your server support PHP? Does `echo "Hello world";` work? It's possible that there's an underlying server issue with the `mail()` function as well. – Kirk Beard May 07 '17 at 22:02
@kirk,, if the server didn't support php OP would be seeing their own code – Achshar May 07 '17 at 22:02
Add an `else` on the conditional so you know if it hits it or not. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:02
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@Achshar The `` would make an element so the code wouldn't be displayed unless viewing the source. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:03
Crap, yeah correct. – Achshar May 07 '17 at 22:04
My server is currently set to PHP 5.5 – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:05
@chris85 I added an else statement and it didn't do either. So the PHP isn't being called as it should :/ – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:09
I added just inside the body tag and that didn't do anything either. I also tried print "Testing!"; – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:14
How are you accessing the file? What is the extension of the file? What do you see if you view the source? – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:15
@chris85 it is a .html file as everything on my site is done inside index.html My site can be viewed here: http://itssimplytech.co.uk/ – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:16
It needs to be `.php` or you need to make a handler. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:21
View your source, you'll see the issue ` – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:22
Possible duplicate of [PHP code is not being executed, instead code shows on the page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5121495/php-code-is-not-being-executed-instead-code-shows-on-the-page) – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:22
@chris85 but my code don't show on screen :/ So how do I make this .php if it is full of html? – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:24
Change the name to `.php` it should still send the correct headers after it processes. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:27
@chris85 I changed it to .php now the site does not work. – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:30
@chris85 https://gyazo.com/4cb0f6250ce176c7ed56eb3611754732 – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:32
Your PHP has a syntax error somewhere. Check the error logs. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:36
I can't find no error logs :? – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:38
@chris85 the only php in my code is the one shown in my original post. I removed all testing php code and still the same issue. – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:42
`$headers = 'From: '$email"\r\n".` is a syntax error. Needs to be ``$headers = 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n".`` – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:43
@chris85 what is wrong with it? – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:43
You need to concatenate the variable to the strings. You could use double quotes, `$headers = "From: $email \r\n".` You need to figure out your error log location though. You **can't** code PHP without checking for errors. – chris85 May 07 '17 at 22:43
@chris85 thank you that works now I have another problem XD – ItsSimplyEddie May 07 '17 at 22:48

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