Html php email form not working - php

Question

Hello I am trying to add a html email form to my website but cannot get it to work. The following is the code I currently have but when I try the form I don't receive an email.
<?php
$action=$_REQUEST['action'];
if ($action=="") /* display the contact form */
{
?>
<form action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="submit">
Your name:<br>
<input name="name" type="text" value="" size="30"/><br>
Your email:<br>
<input name="email" type="text" value="" size="30"/><br>
Your message:<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="7" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send email"/>
</form>
<?php
}
else /* send the submitted data */
{
$name=$_REQUEST['name'];
$email=$_REQUEST['email'];
$message=$_REQUEST['message'];
if (($name=="")||($email=="")||($message==""))
{
echo "All fields are required, please fill the form again.";
}
else{
$from="From: $name<$email>\r\nReturn-path: $email";
$subject="Message sent using your contact form";
mail("****************", $subject, $message, $from);
echo "Email sent!";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

I recommend using PHPMailer.
It will save you a lot of trouble and there are plenty of guides, with freely available default configs where all you need to do is modify the contents, sender and recipient of the email.

Answer 2

first - use $_POST, not $_REQUEST;
second - is there right settings on your server? maybe there is no mail support;
and the last - 4th argument of mail function is not "from", it's headers where you can also set mime-type and others..
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

Answer 3

the error is in this line :
mail("****************", $subject, $message, $from);
replace the asterisks with your email

Answer 4

mail function returns boolean, check whether it is sending or not sending.
Change your mail code like below and try to know whats happening.
`
if (mail("himmerz#gmail.com", $subject, $message, $from)) {
echo 'send';
} else {
echo 'not send';
}
`

Answer 5

mail("****************", $subject, $message, $from);
change to:
mail($email, $subject, $message, $from);