How to handle HTML forms with PHP? - php

Question

I am trying to create a simple contact form that takes user-inputted data and e-mails it to me. however, when I use the following code and the user presses submit, the page is redirected to a blank page (/form.php) - not even the "Thank you!" shows up on it, nor is the e-mail even sent. Can someone point out any errors I'm making? thanks!
PHP:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$myEmail = "myemail#gmail.com";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Message from $email";
$message = "
Name: $name
E-mail: $email
Message:
$message
";
/* Sends to e-mail. */
mail($myEmail, $subject, $message, "hello");
?>
Thank you!
<?php
}
?>
HTML:
<form id="form" method="post" name="contact-form" action="form.php">
Name: <br>
<input type="text" name="name" /><br><br>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="email" /><br><br>
Message:<br>
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Tell me anything!"></textarea><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Answer 1

You're declaring $message with your message (as part of the mail() header) then you're including $message inside it, in turn hashing and bashing your header.
Try this method instead.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$myEmail = "myemail#gmail.com";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Message from $email";
$message2 = "
Name: $name
E-mail: $email
Message:
$message
";
/* Sends to e-mail. */
if(mail($myEmail, $subject, $message2, "hello")){
echo "<b>Thank you</b>"; // HTML bold text.
}
else{
echo "<h2>Sorry, there was an error.</h2>";
}
}
?>
If you want to send email as HTML you need to use the following:
$headers = "From: $email" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
then change what is above:
if(mail($myEmail, $subject, $message2, "hello"))
to read as:
if(mail($myEmail, $subject, $message2, $headers))

Answer 2

Fixed 2 problems.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$myEmail = "myemail#gmail.com";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Message from $email";
$message = "
Name: ".$name."
E-mail: ".$email."
Message:
".$_POST['message']."
";
/* Sends to e-mail. */
mail($myEmail, $subject, $message);
?>
Thank you!
<?php
}
?>