How do I send mail using a php contact form? [duplicate] - php

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So this contact form used to work, however now it loads and says mail sent when someone clicks submit but I never get any emails, what am I missing out?
<?php
// Replace this with your own email address
$siteOwnersEmail = 'email#domain.com';
if($_POST) {
$name = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactName']));
$email = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactEmail']));
$subject = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactSubject']));
$contact_message = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactMessage']));
// Check Name
if (strlen($name) < 2) {
$error['name'] = "Please enter your name.";
}
// Check Email
if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9&\'\.\-_\+]+#[a-z0-9\-]+\.([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*+[a-z]{2}/is', $email)) {
$error['email'] = "Please enter a valid email address.";
}
// Check Message
if (strlen($contact_message) < 15) {
$error['message'] = "Please enter your message. It should have at least 15 characters.";
}
// Subject
if ($subject == '') { $subject = "Contact Form Submission"; }
// Set Message
$message .= "Email from: " . $name . "<br />";
$message .= "Email address: " . $email . "<br />";
$message .= "Message: <br />";
$message .= $contact_message;
$message .= "<br /> ----- <br /> This email was sent from your site's contact form. <br />";
// Set From: header
$from = $name . " <" . $email . ">";
// Email Headers
$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
if (!$error) {
ini_set("sendmail_from", $siteOwnersEmail); // for windows server
$mail = mail($siteOwnersEmail, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($mail) { echo "OK"; }
else { echo "Something went wrong. Please try again."; }
} # end if - no validation error
else {
$response = (isset($error['name'])) ? $error['name'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['email'])) ? $error['email'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['message'])) ? $error['message'] . "<br />" : null;
echo $response;
} # end if - there was a validation error
}
?>
And this is the contact form:
<form name="contactForm" id="contactForm" method="post" action="mail/mail.php">
<fieldset>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactName" type="text" id="contactName" placeholder="Name" value="" minlength="2" required="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactEmail" type="email" id="contactEmail" placeholder="Email" value="" required="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactSubject" type="text" id="contactSubject" placeholder="Subject" value="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<textarea name="contactMessage" id="contactMessage" placeholder="message" rows="10" cols="50" required=""></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="send"class="submitform">Submit</button>
<div id="submit-loader">
<div class="text-loader">Sending...</div>
<div class="s-loader">
<div class="bounce1"></div>
<div class="bounce2"></div>
<div class="bounce3"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
All the messages work, am I missing out on some SMPT information or something? Are there any alternatives to using phpmailer for this job?

Answer 1

For sending mail u need to use any of the mail service provider.

Answer 2

Well for mail to work your server has to have a correct configuration. Since I suspect this is a local environment I doubt it is. You best shot is using a mail library or a mail api service.
Most common php library for mailing with smtp authentication is probably
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
For api mail services I recommend searching on google there are plenty of alternatives