Attempting to send results from form by email.
I have a form that request user information like Name, email etc. I am able to retrieve this info using js. The problem I am encountering is when I pass the value to PHP using AJAX, no email is sent out. I checked and no errors are populating. I add code in the php to see what is not being pass and when I did, none of the values are being passed to the php file.
The following code is the form:
<form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" id="name" class="form-control" placeholder="Name" required="required">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="email" id="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email" required="required">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<textarea id="message" class="form-control" rows="4" placeholder="Message" required="required"></textarea>
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
<div id="success"></div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-custom btn-lg">Send Message</button>
</form>
and the following is the ajax call:
submitSuccess: function($form, event) {
event.preventDefault(); // prevent default submit behaviour
// get values from FORM
var name = $("input#name").val();
var email = $("input#email").val();
var message = $("textarea#message").val();
var firstName = name; // For Success/Failure Message
// Check for white space in name for Success/Fail message
if (firstName.indexOf(' ') >= 0) {
firstName = name.split(' ').slice(0, -1).join(' ');
}
$.ajax({
url: "./mail/contact_me.php",
type: "POST",
data: {
name: name,
email: email,
message: message
},
cache: false,
success: function() {
// Success message
$('#success').html("<div class='alert alert-success'>");
$('#success > .alert-success').html("<button type='button' class='close' data-dismiss='alert' aria-hidden='true'>×")
.append("</button>");
$('#success > .alert-success')
.append("<strong>Your message has been sent. </strong>");
$('#success > .alert-success')
.append('</div>');
//clear all fields
$('#contactForm').trigger("reset");
},
error: function() {
// Fail message
$('#success').html("<div class='alert alert-danger'>");
$('#success > .alert-danger').html("<button type='button' class='close' data-dismiss='alert' aria-hidden='true'>×")
.append("</button>");
$('#success > .alert-danger').append("<strong>Sorry " + firstName + ", it seems that my mail server is not responding. Please try again later!");
$('#success > .alert-danger').append('</div>');
//clear all fields
$('#contactForm').trigger("reset");
},
})
},
and here is the contact_me.php:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['message']) ||
!filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Create the email and send the message
$to = 'rflores@RegalMed.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";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email_address\n\nMessage:\n$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: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;
?>
After the user submits the form, I should be able to receive in email with the users name, email and comments. Not sure if I am missing something. Am I passing the values incorrectly in the "data:{" part?
Any help would be appreciated.
