XAMPP on windows 10 is not running php - php

Question

Project structure is as follows
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\Documentation
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\css
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\images
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\js
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\videos
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\404.html
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\contact.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\HTML\index.html
C:\xampp\htdocs\myProject\PSD
I have a contact form in index.html that is controlled by a javascript file. This code stops default form submit, performs error checks and then uses ajax to make a post request to contact.php. The javascript code runs, it detects the php (see the alert in the code below just after the axjax funtion call. The value of d is the php script in the alert, but none of the debug lines in the php code get called and it never returns 'success'.
Here is the form
<form class="form-horizontal" id="phpcontactform">
<div class="control-group">
<input class="input-block-level" type="text" placeholder="Full Name" name="name" id="name">
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<input class="input-block-level" type="email" placeholder="Email ID" name="email" id="email">
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<input class="input-block-level" type="text" placeholder="Mobile Number" name="mobile" id="mobile">
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<textarea class="input-block-level" rows="10" name="message" placeholder="Your Message" id="message"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<p>
<input class="btn btn-danger btn-large" type="submit" value="Send Message">
</p>
<span class="loading"></span> </div>
</form>
here is the javascript
// JavaScript Document
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#phpcontactform").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var name = $("#name");
var email = $("#email");
var mobile = $("#mobile");
var msg = $("#message");
var flag = false;
if (name.val() == "") {
name.closest(".control-group").addClass("error");
name.focus();
flag = false;
return false;
} else {
name.closest(".control-group").removeClass("error").addClass("success");
} if (email.val() == "") {
email.closest(".control-group").addClass("error");
email.focus();
flag = false;
return false;
} else {
email.closest(".control-group").removeClass("error").addClass("success");
} if (msg.val() == "") {
msg.closest(".control-group").addClass("error");
msg.focus();
flag = false;
return false;
} else {
msg.closest(".control-group").removeClass("error").addClass("success");
flag = true;
}
var dataString = "name=" + name.val() + "&email=" + email.val() + "&mobile=" + mobile.val() + "&msg=" + msg.val();
$(".loading").fadeIn("slow").html("Loading...");
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
data: dataString,
url: "http://localhost/myProject/HTML/contact.php",
cache: false,
success: function (d) {
alert("d: "+d);
$(".control-group").removeClass("success");
if(d == 'success') // Message Sent? Show the 'Thank You' message and hide the form
$('.loading').fadeIn('slow').html('<font color="green">Mail sent Successfully.</font>').delay(3000).fadeOut('slow');
else
$('.loading').fadeIn('slow').html('<font color="red">Mail not sent.</font>').delay(3000).fadeOut('slow');
}
});
return false;
});
$("#reset").click(function () {
$(".control-group").removeClass("success").removeClass("error");
});
})
And finally here is the php
<?php
echo "<script>console.log('Debug Objects:' );</script>";
$name = $_REQUEST["name"];
$email = $_REQUEST["email"];
$mobile = $_REQUEST["mobile"];
$msg = $_REQUEST["msg"];
echo "<script>";
echo "alert('this also works');";
echo "</script>";
$to = "myemail#gmail.com";
if (isset($email) && isset($name) && isset($msg)) {
$subject = $name."sent you a message via Raaga";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$name." <".$email.">\r\n"."Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n" ;
$msg = "From: ".$name."<br/> Email: ".$email ."<br/> Mobile: ".$mobile." <br/>Message: ".$msg;
echo "<script>alert('this maybe works');</script>";
$mail = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
if($mail)
{
echo 'success';
}
else
{
echo "<script>alert('name:'+$name);</script>";
echo 'failed';
}
}
echo "<script>alert('this finally works');</script>";
?>
I tried moving contact.php to the htdocs root but that didnt work. Have turned off all antivirus and firewalls but that didnt work either. Am at a loss. Thought php was supposed to work out of the box with xampp?

Answer 1

Okay so thanks to ADyson for the help. The issue was not that php isn't running, its that the mail server was not properly configured.