Contact form bootstrap php - php

Question

I'm going to be upfront here. I don't really know PHP, but I want to use it to make a simple email form for my website that I'm building. I have put together what I thought would work, but I still get errors when I click submit.
Can anyone just tell me what I'm doing wrong to get it to work?
Here's the code (sorry if I over posted the code, I don't have the slightest clue where the problem is):
Contact.html:
<h1 class="cover-heading">Contact Me</h1>
<div class="form-area">
<form role="form" method="post" action="Contact.php">
<br style="clear:both">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name"
required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email"
required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="mobile" name="mobile" placeholder="Mobile Number"
required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="subject" name="subject" placeholder="Subject"
required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<textarea class="form-control" type="textarea" name="message" id="message" placeholder="Message"
maxlength="1337" rows="7"></textarea>
<span class="help-block"><p id="characterLeft" class="help-block ">You have reached the limit</p></span>
</div>
<button type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-secondary ">Submit Form</button>
</form>
</div>
Contact.php:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "christopherbare#outlook.com";
$email_subject = "ChristopherBare.com Contact form";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
!isset($_POST['subject']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['mobile']) ||
!isset($_POST['message'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email = $_POST['email']; // required
$mobile = $_POST['mobile']; // not required
$subject = $_POST['subject']; //required
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($message) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The message you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email)."\n";
$email_message .= "Mobile: ".clean_string($mobile)."\n";
$email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<?php
}
?>
Here is the error:
"; echo $error."
"; echo "Please go back and fix these errors.
"; die(); } // validation expected data exists if(!isset($_POST['name']) || !isset($_POST['subject']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['mobile']) || !isset($_POST['message'])) { died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.'); } $name = $_POST['name']; // required $email = $_POST['email']; // required $mobile = $_POST['mobile']; // not required $subject = $_POST['subject']; //required $message = $_POST['message']; // required $error_message = ""; $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/'; if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) { $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) { $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) { $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(strlen($message) < 2) { $error_message .= 'The message you entered does not appear to be valid.
'; } if(strlen($error_message) > 0) { died($error_message); } $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n"; function clean_string($string) { $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); return str_replace($bad,"",$string); } $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email)."\n"; $email_message .= "Mobile: ".clean_string($mobile)."\n"; $email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n"; $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($message)."\n"; // create email headers $headers = 'From: '.$email."\r\n". 'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); #mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); ?>

Answer 1

Based on your error, look like you doesn't have PHP installed in your system.
You can download PHP here : http://php.net/downloads.php
If you are using Windows OS, I suggest you install xampp for easy use. You can download xampp here : https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html