How to send confirmation email via PHP and Ajax? - php

Question

I am working on a project with a simple PHP form with Ajax. The form sends email successfully but in AJAX messages it displays an error message that I have set: 'Oops! An error occured and your message could not be sent.
' could it be a server problem?
Also I want to send user a thank you (form submit confirmation) email after they submit the form on my website.
HTML Code:
<form id="ajax-contact" method="post" action="mailer.php">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Name" required name="name">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="email" name="email" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="message">Message:</label>
<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" id="message" name="message"></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
PHP mailer.php Code:
// Only process POST reqeusts.
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
// Get the form fields and remove whitespace.
$name = strip_tags(trim($_POST["name"]));
$name = str_replace(array("\r","\n"),array(" "," "),$name);
$email = filter_var(trim($_POST["email"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = trim($_POST["message"]);
// Check that data was sent to the mailer.
if ( empty($name) OR empty($message) OR !filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
// Set a 400 (bad request) response code and exit.
http_response_code(400);
echo "Oops! There was a problem with your submission. Please complete the form and try again.";
exit;
}
// Set the recipient email address.
// FIXME: Update this to your desired email address.
$recipient = "receiveremail#somewhere.com";
// Set the email subject.
$subject = "New contact from $name";
// Build the email content.
$email_content = "Name: $name\n";
$email_content .= "Email: $email\n\n";
$email_content .= "Message:\n$message\n";
// Build the email headers.
$email_headers = "From: $name <$email>";
// Send the email.
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $email_content, $email_headers)) {
// Set a 200 (okay) response code.
http_response_code(200);
echo "Thank You! Your message has been sent.";
} else {
// Set a 500 (internal server error) response code.
http_response_code(500);
echo "Oops! Something went wrong and we couldn't send your message.";
}
} else {
// Not a POST request, set a 403 (forbidden) response code.
http_response_code(403);
echo "There was a problem with your submission, please try again.";
}
?>
AJAX Code:
$(function() {
// Get the form.
var form = $('#ajax-contact');
// Get the messages div.
var formMessages = $('#form-messages');
// Set up an event listener for the contact form.
$(form).submit(function(event) {
// Stop the browser from submitting the form.
event.preventDefault();
// Serialize the form data.
var formData = $(form).serialize();
// Submit the form using AJAX.
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: $(form).attr('action'),
data: formData
})
.done(function(response) {
// Make sure that the formMessages div has the 'success' class.
$(formMessages).removeClass('error');
$(formMessages).addClass('success');
// Set the message text.
$(formMessages).text(response);
// Clear the form.
$('#name').val('');
$('#email').val('');
$('#message').val('');
})
.fail(function(data) {
// Make sure that the formMessages div has the 'error' class.
$(formMessages).removeClass('success');
$(formMessages).addClass('error');
// Set the message text.
if (data.responseText !== '') {
$(formMessages).text(data.responseText);
} else {
$(formMessages).text('Oops! An error occured and your message could not be sent.');
}
});
});
});

Answer 1

just change this line and check once. even i had the same issue, i solved like this,
data: formData
to
data: {"postvalues":formData},
or
data: formData to data: {name: "sample",email:"your emal",message:"hi how are you"}
If you are using first one, make necessary changes in mailer.php. Like this
$post = $_POST['postvalues'];
$name = $post['name'];
$email = $post['email'];
$message = $post['message'];
If you follow second method, you cant serialize() form, and no need to change anything in mailer.php.
To send email to user who filled the form, use this
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $email_content, $email_headers)) {
// Set a 200 (okay) response code.
http_response_code(200);
echo "Thank You! Your message has been sent.";
mail($email, "Contact Us", "Thank you for contacting us, we will get back to you soon", $email_headers)
}