PHP form loads blank page and nothing happens? - php

Question

I've tried out a few PHP contact form tutorials but none seem to work for me. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I tested it in localhost and nothing, so I went ahead and hosted it to see if that would work but still nothing.
HTML
<form class="form" action="form_process.php" method="post" name="contact_form">
<p class="name">
<label for="name">Name</label><br>
<input type="text" name="name_first" id="name" placeholder="First" />
<input type="text" name="name_second" id="name" placeholder="Last" />
</p>
<p class="email">
<label for="email">Email</label><br>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="mail#example.com" />
</p>
<p class="text">
<label for="email">Comments</label><br>
<textarea name="text" placeholder="Write something to us" /></textarea>
</p>
<p class="submit">
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</p>
</form>
form_process.php
<?php
$name_first = $_POST['name_first'];
$name_second = $_POST['name_second'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$from = 'From: ';
$to = 'EMAIL HERE';
$subject = 'Hello';
$body = "From: $name_first\n $name_second\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $text";
if ($_POST['submit']) {
if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) {
header("Location: index.html");
echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
exit;
} else {
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>';
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Your error is from the line
if ($_POST['submit']) {
This is because you did not give your submit button a name of submit. If you fix this line in your HTML it should fix the issue:
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" />
I recommend that you set an error log in your php.ini file. That way you can see the error for yourself which would have said something similar to:
PHP Notice: Undefined index: submit in
/var/www/pwd/blah/form_process.php on line 12

Answer 2

If you are working in localhost mode you will need phpmailer.
First you need download phpmailer from here https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/archive/master.zip
Then paste in your folder. If my coding doesn't clear you, you can check from
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php'; // Your Path
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'user#example.com'; // Your mail
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // Your mail password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
//Check Condition
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
Second way.
If you working testing in online mode(Have own domain and hosting), you can just randomly copy and paste.
Doesnt required phpmailer.
if(isset($_POST['email'])) $email = $_POST['email'];
else $email = "";
function send_mail($myname, $myemail, $contactname, $contactemail, $subject, $message) {
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
$headers .= "From: \"".$myname."\" <".$myemail.">\r\n";
return(mail("\"".$contactname."\" <".$contactemail.">", $subject, $message, $headers));
}
if(isset($Submit) && $Submit=="Go") {
$emailContent ='';
$sent=send_mail($name, "yourmailname.gmail.com", "Fido", $receipientEmail, "Testing", $emailContent);
if($sent) {
echo $emailContent;
header('Location: contact.php');
}else{
echo "Failed";
exit;
}
}
?>
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