PHP Contact form wil not submit - php

Question

When the submit button is clicked, the browser goes to www.****.com/contact.php and the page is blank. The email is also not delivered. This is my first time dealing with php. What am I missing?
Here is the form:
<form class="comment-form" action="contact.php" method="POST">
<p class="comment-notes">Your email address will not be published. All fields are required.</p>
<p class="comment-form-email">
<label for="author">Name</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="author" type="text" class="input-text" name="name">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-author">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="email" type="text" class="input-text" name="email">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-url">
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="subject" type="text" class="input-text" name="subject">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-comment">
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="10" class="input-text"></textarea>
</p>
<p class="form-submit">
<input class="btn btn-md btn-default" name="submit" type="submit" id="button" value="Send"><input type="reset" value="Clear">
</p>
</form>
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$formcontent = "From: $name\n Message: $message";
$recipient = "me#example.com";
$subject = "$subject";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(display_errors, 1);
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die ("Error!");
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible"; " -"<a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> "Return Home"</a>;
?>

Answer 1

It looks like this form is posting to itself? IF that's the case, I think you should probably be using
<form class="comment-form" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>">
htmlspecialchars() is a safety thing. Helps to prevent against some hacks.

Answer 2

Looks like your PHP isn't being called properly because it isn't being triggered by the submit button. The code below executes when the submit button is pressed.
if(isset($_POST['submit']
{
// put your PHP code here, this executes when submit is...submitted
}
Give this a shot, it should help you out some.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(display_errors, 1);
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//Gather the POST info and set them to variables
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Setup the message and define who will be emailed the info
$formcontent = "From: $name\n Message: $message";
$recipient = "pbentley07#gmail.com";
$headers = 'From:' . $email;
mail("$recipient", $subject, $formcontent, $headers) or die ("Error!");
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible! - <a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'>Return Home</a>";
}
?>
<form class="comment-form" action="contact.php" method="POST">
<p class="comment-notes">Your email address will not be published. All fields are required.</p>
<p class="comment-form-email">
<label for="author">Name</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="author" type="text" class="input-text" name="name">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-author">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="email" type="text" class="input-text" name="email">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-url">
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<span class="required">*</span>
<input id="subject" type="text" class="input-text" name="subject">
</p>
<p class="comment-form-comment">
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="10" class="input-text"></textarea>
</p>
<p class="form-submit">
<input class="btn btn-md btn-default" name="submit" type="submit" id="button" value="Send"><input type="reset" value="Clear">
</p>
</form>

Answer 3

in your echo statement, you have bad syntax. Try
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible - <a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'>\"Return Home\"</a>";

Answer 4

Could you confirm that the page+code you posted here
is contact.php file?
Try to fix your php code first, this line:
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible"; " -"<a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> "Return Home"</a>;
must be:
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible";
?>
Return Home
<?php

Answer 5

You have some serious "errors" in your PHP:
$message is not defined
$subject is not defined
It's ini_set('display_errors', 1);, not ini_set(display_errors, 1);
Your echo line is invalid, remove the additional HTML part
Your final code should looke like this:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent = "From: $name\n Message: $message";
$recipient = "me#example.com";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die ("Error!");
echo "Thank You! We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible";
?>
<a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> "Return Home"</a>
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