How to send email with contact form on Wordpress page - php

Question

I am trying to get a simple contact form to work with my wordpress site but cannot get it to work. I dont want to use any plugin, I just want to do it using PHP. So I put this file in root dir of my wordpress installation on my hostgator hosted site
www.example.com/sendmail.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "myemail#yahoo.com";
$from= $_POST['email'];
$fname= $_POST['fname'];
$lname= $_POST['lname'];
$message= $_POST['message'];
$subject = "Request email";
$headers = "From:" .$from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
}
?>
This is the contact-us form on www.example.com/contact-us
<form action="http://www.example.com/sendmail.php" method="post">
<fieldset>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="fname" name="name" type="text" placeholder="First Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="lname" name="name" type="text" placeholder="Last Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="email" name="email" type="text" placeholder="Email Address" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="phone" name="phone" type="text" placeholder="Phone" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message" placeholder="Enter your massage for us here. We will get back to you within 2 business days." rows="7"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12 text-center">
<!-- <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Submit</button>-->
<input type="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" value="Submit">
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
If i try to visit this page www.example.com/sendmail.php, it gives 200 success ok message. However if I try to fill the form and then it sends the email, i am not able to recieve it.
Is there anything I am missing or I need to check ?

Answer 1

You are getting these variables $fname= $_POST['fname']; $lname= $_POST['lname']; on sendmail.php
But your html form input fields does not have name for fname and lname .
So use the below one :
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="fname" name="fname" type="text" placeholder="First Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="lname" name="lname" type="text" placeholder="Last Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
Instead of :
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="fname" name="name" type="text" placeholder="First Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input id="lname" name="name" type="text" placeholder="Last Name" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
Hope it helps you.