Trouble with a Simple PHP Contact Form [duplicate] - php

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I'm having trouble figuring out why my contact form isn't working. I'm relatively new to PHP and from what I can see, everything is linked, but when I go to send the email, nothing is sent to the designated delivery address. Any help would be appreciated!! Thank you!!
My code is below:
HTML
<table width="400" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><form name="form1" method="post" action="mail.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="16%">Subject</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%"><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4" id="detail"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="customer_mail" type="text" id="customer_mail" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
PHP
<?php
// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";
// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";
// Enter your email address
$to ='jordanmcowan#gmail.com';
$submit=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($submit){
echo "Thank you for contacting us at Allstar Therapies, Inc.<br /> We will be in touch shortly!";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

Answer 1

Your PHP Code seems wrong to me. This is a corrected version
<?php
// Contact subject
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
// Details
$message = $_POST['detail'];
// Mail of sender
$mail_from = $_POST['customer_mail'];
// From
$header = "from: " . $_POST['name'] . "<" . $_POST['customer_mail'] . ">";
// Enter your email address
$to = 'jordanmcowan#gmail.com';
$submit = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if ($submit) {
echo "Thank you for contacting us at Allstar Therapies, Inc.<br /> We will be in touch shortly!";
} else {
echo "An error has been encountered while sending your message. We sincerely apologize and ask you to try again. If that fails as well, please contact us at XYZ-Y234-SADF";
}
The variables haven't been initialized. Please note that these symbols: "" mark the beginning and the end of a string.

Answer 2

These lines are wrong:
// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";
// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";
You're trying to assign the variables to themselves. Try:
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['detail'];
etc.

Answer 3

You need to use $_POST variable:
// Contact subject
$subject = isset($_POST["subject"]) ? ($_POST["subject"]) : "";

Answer 4

You haven't set your PHP variables (IE $subject) to your post variables yet. Try changing your PHP variables to use the $_POST variables.
<?php
// Contact subject
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
// Details
$message= $_POST['detail'];
// Mail of sender
$mail_from= $_POST['customer_mail'];
// From
$header="from: {$_POST['name']} <{$_POST['mail_from']}>";
// Enter your email address
$to ='jordanmcowan#gmail.com';
$submit=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($submit){
echo "Thank you for contacting us at Allstar Therapies, Inc.<br /> We will be in touch shortly!";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

Answer 5

You can access to POST parametars by $_POST / GET parametars by $_GET. First check if your redirect works correct.
type:
echo "welcome";
in mail.php
If redirect works the print all Post parametars:
print_r($_POST);
Last you can get one by one
$variable = $_POST['input_name_from_form'];
Hope this is solution for your problem