Sending email with php and html form [duplicate] - php

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I'm learning php and I'm trying to send an email to myself using an html form but it doesn't works.
<form action="index.php" role="form" method="post" name="emailform">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email address:</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="comment">Text:</label>
<textarea type="textarea" class="form-control" id="textarea" rows="5" name="textarea"></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default" id="submit" name="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
<?php
function email()
{
$to = 'my_mail';
$message = $_POST['textarea'];
$from = $_POST['email'];
$subject = 'Portfolio';
$mail_headers = "From: " . $from . " <" . $from . ">\r\n";
$mail_headers .= "Reply-To: " . $from . "\r\n";
$mail_headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
echo $to . " " . $message . " " . $from;
if(#mail($to, $subject, $message, $mail_headers))
echo #mail($to, $subject, $message, $mail_headers);
else echo "ERROR";
}
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
email();
?>
my_mail is my mail (I replaced it here but in the code there is my real email).
The code seem to work, in fact it display the echo #mail but the mail doesn't appear in my inbox

Answer 1

The code looks fine, but I think because of # in the mail function you are not seeing any errors. If you don't want to display error you can use it like this:
<?php
if(#mail($to, $subject, $message, $mail_headers)){
echo "Mail Sent!";
}else{
print_r(error_get_last());
}
?>
In this way the error is not thrown but you can use error_get_last() to see the error and log it if you want.
PS you are using mail function 2 times, so mail would be sent two times when it is going to work.

Answer 2

here is the correct way.
<form action="contact.php" etc... etc..>
blah blah blah
</form>
Then create a new php file (contact.php) and use the following
<?php
$field_name = $_POST["cname"];/* change " " according to your form */
$field_email = $_POST["cmail"];
$field_sub = $_POST["csub"];
$field_message = $_POST["cmsg"];
$to = "mailid1#mail.com, mailid2#mail.com";
$subject = " give subject" ;
$message = "message";
if(mail($to,$subject,$message))
{
echo "<script>alert('Your Message was sent Successfully. Thank You For Your Time !');</script>";
}
else
{
echo "<script>alert('Something wrong happened. Please try again later. Sorry For The Trouble'); </script>";
}
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=contact.html">
<!-- for coming back to intial page -->