Unable to send an email after clicking on submit button in php

Question

Trying to send an email not displaying any error message or anything just refreshing the page that it.

I am trying an email through contact form but its not working.Here is the code for that. tried by doing echo but it is not working .not displaying any error as well.

contact and contactus:

<?php ob_start();
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {   
$to = "abc@gmail.com";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$txt = $_POST['comment'];
$headers = "From: " .$email . "\r\n" .
"CC: xyz@gmail.com";    
mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers);   
header("Location: contact.php");    
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>HMS System</title>       
</head>
<body>      
    <div class="container">         
                <div class="page-header">
                    <h2>Contact Us Form</h2>
                </div>
                <form class="form-horizontal" action="contactus.php" method="post" role="form">
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="name" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Name</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-8">
                            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" placeholder="Insert your Name" id="name">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="email" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Email Address</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-8">
                            <input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" placeholder="Email Address" id="email">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="subject" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Subject</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-8">
                            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="subject" placeholder="Subject" id="subject">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="comments" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Comment</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-8">
                            <textarea class="form-control" rows="10" name="comment" style="resize:none;"></textarea>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label class="col-sm-2 control-label"></label>
                        <div class="col-sm-8">
                            <input type="submit" value="Send Message" name="submit_contact" class="btn btn-block btn-danger" id="subject">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </form>

            </section>

        </article>
    </div>
    <div style="width:50px;height:50px;"></div>

</body>

Use error_reporting (E_ALL); on top to display existing errors — Michael, Jun 05 '18 at 06:18
Possible duplicate of [PHP mail function doesn't complete sending of e-mail](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24644436/php-mail-function-doesnt-complete-sending-of-e-mail) — CBroe, Jun 05 '18 at 07:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '18 at 05:56

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use this

if(isset($_POST['submit_contact']))

answered Jun 05 '18 at 05:56

Risheekant Vishwakarma

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Added redirect to contact.php page not getting any message – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '18 at 06:09

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If you are doing it from your local server, you will have to setup your mail properly in ini then only you will be able to send mail from your local machine.

answered Jun 05 '18 at 06:09

shahburhan

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No i am trying in live server this is my website app.sarastek.website In this contact us page – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:14
Did you check your spam? – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:19
Gmail verifies the received mails against the server they were sent from for being actual or masked. Example if you are sending mails from your server and using a gmail account in to, it will notify the user that the mail wasn't sent from gmail servers. It might even flag it as spam. Better way would be using SMTP to send mails. – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:23
put mail in an if statement and see if it returns true. if(mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers)) echo "Mail Sent"; – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:24
Not getting anything – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:30
Then your mail is disabled. You need to configure your ini to enable mail. – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:34
how can we do that can you explain – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:35
if(isset($_POST['submit_contact'])) { $to = "abc@gmail.com,hai@gmail.com"; $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $comment = $_POST['comment']; $retval = mail ($to,$subject,$comment); echo "Message sent successfully..."; header("Location: contact.php"); } i have added this cde it is working fine but from address is website hosting one how can we can change that – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:41
mail ($to,$subject,$comment, "From : email@mail.com"); – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:42
That will set the from mail – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 06:43
if we want to add cc then – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 06:47
Its not working adding like that displaying the server email only – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 07:03
$headers = 'From: ' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n"; mail ($to,$subject,$comment, $headers); – shahburhan Jun 05 '18 at 07:07
from address should be the address which user enters in contact form – user9131066 Jun 05 '18 at 07:15

Michael · Answer 3 · 2018-06-05T08:26:10.790

A better approach would be to wrap the mail function in a statement. Mail is returning a bool value. And beginn as simple as possible.

error_reporting (E_ALL);

$to = "mail@whatever.com"
// ... your settings ...

if ( mail ( $to , $subject , $message ) ) {

    // do when ok

} 
else {  

    // do when error

}

To verify that you receive all values from $_POST do

echo '<pre>';
print_r ($_POST);
echo '</pre>';

Unable to send an email after clicking on submit button in php

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