phpmailer not posting errors or sending emails

Question

I've got a simple contact form:

<form method="post" name="submitted.php" action="submitted.php" autocomplete="off"> <br>
<input type="name" id="forename" name="forename" placeholder="Forename" required> <br>
<input type="name" id="surname" name="surname" placeholder="Surname" required> <br>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required> <br>
<input type="message" id="message" name="message" placeholder="Message" required> <br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Contact Me" required="">

That is supposed to email the form responses to the email address associated with the domain via phpmailer. The code was working and has all of a sudden just stopped.

submitted.php contains this code:

<?php

    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

    if(isset($_POST['submit'])) 
    {
        // Values

        $forename = $_POST['forename'];
        $surname = $_POST['surname'];
        $email = $_POST['email'];
        $message = $_POST['message'];
  
        $timestamp =date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

        require './vendor/autoload.php';

        $mail = new PHPMailer;
        $mail->isSMTP();
        $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
        $mail->Host = 'smtp.hostinger.co.uk';
        $mail->Port = 587;
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
        $mail->Username = '[email@example.com';
        $mail->Password = '[PASSWORD]';
        $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';

        $mail->setFrom('noreply@example.com','Domain Noreply'); // Emails sent via Domain's Noreply

        $mail->addAddress('enquiries@example.com','Enquiries'); // Email form responses sent to enquiries@example.com

        $mail->addReplyTo($email,$forename.' '.$surname); // Reply to the user who submitted the form.

        $mail->addBCC('outbox@example.com',''); // Store record of all emails sent via the system in outbox@example.com

        $mail->Subject = 'Contact form response from '.$forename.' '.$surname.' '; // Subject of the email sent to enquiries that the form responses will be contained within.

        $mail->isHTML(TRUE);
        $mail->Body = <<<EOD
        
            <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
            <html>
            <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
            <head>
            <title>Contact Form Submission</title>
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
            <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
            <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
            <style>
             /* Email Template */ 
            .mail-body {
                padding-top: 15px;
                padding-left: 15px:
            }

            .email-logo {
                padding-bottom: 10px;
            }

            a:link {
                text-decoration: none;
            }

            a:visited {
                text-decoration: none; 
            }

            hr {
                height: 5px;
                width: 100%;
                background-color: #000000;
                border: none;
            }
            </style>
            </head>
            <body>
            <div class="mail-body">
            <a href="https://example.com"><img class="email-logo" src="https://example.com/logo.png" width="200px"></a>
            <br>
            <p>Hey Enquiries,</p>
            <p>You have received a new form response from {$forename}.</p>
            <p>Please see below for their contact information and message they submitted.</p>
            <p>You can click their email address or reply below to start an email thread.</p>
            <br />
            <p><b>Contact Details:</b></p>
            <p>Name: {$forename} {$surname}</p>
            <p>Email: <a href="mailto:{$email}"> {$email}</a></p>
            <p><b>Request Details</b></p>
            <p>Message: {$message}</p>
            <br />
            <hr>
            <p>Please do not reply to this email</p>     
            </div>
            </body>
            </html>
          
EOD;
        if(!$mail->send()) { // Send the email.
          echo '';
          echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        } else {
          echo '';
        }
    }
?>

This code was working, and the emails did send successfully. I've been lost with this for about a month at this point so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you ensured that the email sending the emails has it's security features disabled and isn't stopping your code from sending the email? — Nick Parsons, Oct 13 '19 at 03:22
Yes, there's no issues there. I got the hosting company to check this @NickParsons :) — learningtoanimate, Oct 13 '19 at 03:23
Ok, your submit button also doesn't have the `name` of `"submit"`, so your `POST` will never have `"submit"` in it. Add the `name` attribute to your input: `` — Nick Parsons, Oct 13 '19 at 03:29

Luis Colmenarez · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-13T03:39:23.880

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try modifying the button that triggers the form

<input type="submit" value="Contact Me" required="">

for

<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Contact Me" required="">

edited Oct 13 '19 at 03:39

answered Oct 13 '19 at 03:21

Luis Colmenarez

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There is no error that appears. The confirmation message displays to the user without issue. – learningtoanimate Oct 13 '19 at 03:23

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