Contact Form for my website not working in php

Question

I am trying to make a contact form for my website in php, but it seems something wrong somewhere, which i am unable to locate. Can you please help me to locate the error in the following code will be of great help and suggest further improvement on this.

Will of great help. Thanks in advance.

<?php
    // Message Vars
    $msg = '';
    $msgClass = '';

    //check for submit
    if (filter_has_var(INPUT_POST, 'submit')) {
        //GET FORM DATA 
        $name = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']);
        $email = htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']);
        $message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']);

        // check required fields
        if (!empty($email) && !empty($name) && !empty($message)) {
            // passed 
            // check email
            if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)  == false) {
                //failed
                $msg = 'Please use a valid email';
                $msgClass = 'alert-danger';
            } else{
                //passed
                // reciepient email 
                $toEmail = 'myemail@gmail.com';
                $subject = 'Contact Request From '.$name;
                $body = '<h2> Contact Request</h2>
                         <h4> Name </h4><p>'.$name.'</p>
                         <h4> Email </h4><p>'.$email.'</p>
                         <h4> Message </h4><p>'.$message.'</p>';

                // email headers 
                $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0"."\r\n";
                $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

                // additional headers
                $headers .= "From:" .$name. "<".$email.">". "\r\n";

                if (mail($toEmail, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
                    // email sent
                    $msg = ' Your email has been sent';
                    $msgClass = 'alert-success';
                }
            }

            # code...
        } else {
            //failed
            $msg = ' Please fill in all fields';
            $msgClass = 'alert-danger';
            // failed

            # code...
        }

        # code...
    }
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Contact Us</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container" >
        <?php if ($msg != ''): ?>
            <div class="alert <?php echo $msgClass; ?> "><?php echo $msg; ?></div>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <form method="post"  action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
            <div class="contact-form" >
                <h1>Contact Us</h1>
                <div class="txtb" >
                    <label>Name</label>
                    <input type="text"
                           name="name"
                           class="form-control" 
                           value="<?php echo isset($_POST['name']) ? $name : ''; ?>">
                </div>

                <div class="txtb" >
                    <label>Email</label>
                    <input type="text"
                           name="email"
                           class="form-control" 
                           value="<?php echo isset($_POST['email']) ? $email : ''; ?>" >
                </div>

                <div class="txtb" >
                    <label>Message</label>
                    <textarea  name="message" class="form-control"   ><?php echo isset($_POST['message']) ? $message : ''; ?></textarea>
                </div>

                <br>
                <a type="submit" name="submit"  class="btn" >Submit</a>
        </form>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

do you get any errors? oh what is wrong with that code? I think you are on the wrong site. php has nothing to do with databases — hotfix, May 31 '19 at 15:51
Can you elaborate on "Something wrong"? What is happening/not happening? Any errors thrown? Do you have error reporting turned on for php in your php.ini so it's more verbose? This is a lot of code to sort through looking for the "needle". — JNevill, May 31 '19 at 15:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '19 at 15:59

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I don't know what type of the error you're seeing but there's a little thing to change

You need to change

 <a type="submit" name="submit"  class="btn" >Submit</a>

to

 <input type="submit">

answered May 31 '19 at 15:59

EchoDino

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