I have some error with php that opens blank page

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I'm having some difficulty getting my contact form working on my website. It opens a blank page and actually doesn't work at all. My code is below:

<form action="mail.php" method="post" class="comment-form">
<input name="name" type="text" placeholder="Your Name" required>
<input name="email" type="email" placeholder="Email">
 <input type="url" placeholder="Website">
<textarea rows="4" placeholder="Messages"></textarea>
 <input type="submit" value="send message">                                     
 </form>

And php code:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: Website'; 
$to = 'me@me.com'; 
$subject = 'Email Inquiry';

$header = "From: noreply@example.com\r\n"; 
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
header("location: ../contact");
?>

@Casper They're probably not using error reporting, which explains the blank page. Which you would be correct of sorts, since usually a blank screen means errors. — Funk Forty Niner, Sep 22 '19 at 00:44
I don't think it a duplicate question. The code mentioned in the question has a logic error which won't be reported by enabling error reporting as suggested in the duplicate post links. — Shaunak Sontakke, Sep 22 '19 at 00:49
@Funk Forty Niner There will be warnings **Undefined index** because when first time page loads $_POST[] variables are empty there is no any conditional check. — Casper, Sep 22 '19 at 00:51
@Shaunak Sontakke you need to check whether form submit or not in php before execute php code block. — Casper, Sep 22 '19 at 00:57
Thank you for your time and the links you shared. I'm almost there. Now I am receiving emails in inbox only missing the sender email. — bojana knezevic, Sep 24 '19 at 20:39

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '19 at 00:35

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Use this to send your cod to the php instead of just refreshing

    <form action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>" method='POST'>

answered Sep 22 '19 at 00:35

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What good will this possibly do? – Funk Forty Niner Sep 22 '19 at 00:43

Shaunak Sontakke · Answer 2 · 2019-09-22T01:05:55.897

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There is nothing in your form with the name 'submit'. You have type="submit". So your code is not going in the if the condition of if($_POST['submit']).

You should check for something else. Like: if ($_POST['name']) or if ($_POST['email']).

Also, I would suggest having an else block for your - if ($_POST['name']) so you can show some message instead of getting a blank page.

edited Sep 22 '19 at 01:05

answered Sep 22 '19 at 00:45

Shaunak Sontakke

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I have some error with php that opens blank page

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