Having trouble with my contact form - php

I'm having a little trouble with my contact form. It's sending emails to my server but somehow it's not taking the information from the "email" field. Instead, what I get in the "From:" field is my address on the server like this: "muzedima#box693.bluehost.com".It's not taking the info from the "name" field either. What did I do wrong? Also, I'm trying to get the subject line to say the name of the sender, but I failed miserably, is it possible?
Here's the HTML:
<div class="large-7 medium-10 small-12 medium-centered large-centered column">
<div class="row">
<form method="post" action="email2.php">
<input type="text" name="name" class="defaultText" title="your name">
<input type="text" name="email" class="defaultText" title="your email address">
<textarea name="comments1" class="defaultText" title="Tell us about your business"></textarea>
<textarea name="comments2" class="defaultText" title="How can we help?"></textarea>
<div class="large-7 medium-10 small-12 medium-centered large-centered column">
<input type="submit" name="send message" value="Send Message">
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
And here's the PHP script:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
{
//send email
$to = 'info#muzedimage.com';
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$subject = 'Inquiry from $name';
$comments1 = $_POST['comments1'] ;
$comments2 = $_POST['comments2'] ;
$message = $comments1 . "\n\n" . $comments2;
$headers = "From: $name, $email";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "<script>window.location = 'http://www.muzedimage.com'</script>";
}
else
//if "email" is not filled out,
{
echo "Oops!, you forgot your email!";
}
?>
Thanks guys!

PHP variables are not evaluated inside of single quotes, only double quotes, therefore change the following:
$subject = 'Inquiry from $name';
//to
$subject = "Inquiry from $name";
Also for the email portion, you're not doing anything with it... so do something with it.
$message = $comments1 . "\n\n" . $comments2 . "\n\n" . $email;
Now it sends the email as well.

Ohgodwhy already pointed out one of the issues with your code, so I won't bother repeating it.
In regards as to why you're receiving the From: as "muzedima#box693.bluehost.com" is because of this line:
$headers = "From: $name, $email";
It needs to be like this:
$headers = "From: $name <$email>\r\n";
The $email variable must be encapsulated by < and > and it's best to end it with \r\n
Tested and working with both Ohgodwhy's answer and mine.

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my website contact form being used to send spoof emails

My hosting provider has contacted me and said one of the sites I have designed is sending spoof emails. Done a little bit of research but I still don't really understand how/what are they are doing to send these spoof emails. However more importantly how should I approach this, would it help if I try and put one of these 'captcha' things in place on the contact form or should I change the code I have on my site. Which is shown below:
<?php
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom']));
$EmailTo = "***";
$Subject = "Message to A R C Products";
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name']));
$Address = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Address']));
$Telephone = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Telephone']));
$Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Message']));
// prepare email body text
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$Message = "
Name:$Name
Address: $Address
Telephone: $Telephone
$Message";
// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Message, $headers);
// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=ok.html\">";
}
else{
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.html\">";
}
?>
<h2><strong>Contact Us</strong></h2>
<form method="POST" action="contact.php">
<br/>
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Fields marked (*) are required</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Your Email:* <br/>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Name:* <br/>
<input type="text" name="Name">
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Address:<br/>
<input type="text" name="Address">
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Telephone:<br/>
<input type="text" name="Telephone">
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Message:*<br/>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Message" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>
<p style="margin-top: 0;"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
Take a look on filter_input to clean your input data. Also i would not use the email from the form as a from address.
$EmailFrom = filter_input(INPUT_POST,'EmailFrom', FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

Contact Us form not Functioning HTML5/PHP Help needed

Good day,
Newbie here in PHP. I have been working on a website (free template) and got all the functions to work except the Contact Us part of the code. I don't get any errors it just does not send any email to the listed email or send back a response to the sender.
Here is the HTML Side of the code:
<form id="contact-form" action="php/mail.php">
<div class="control-group">
<div class="controls">
<input class="span6" type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="* Your name..."/>
<div class="error center" id="err-name">Please enter your name.</div>
</div></div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="controls">
<input class="span6" type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="* Your email..."/>
<div class="error center" id="err-email">Please enter a valid email adress.</div></div></div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="controls">
<textarea class="span6" name="comment" id="comment" placeholder="* Comments..."></textarea>
<div class="error center" id="err-comment">Please enter your comment.</div>
</div></div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="controls">
<button id="send-mail" class="message-btn">Send message</button>
</div></div></form>
and this is the mail.php code used:
include 'functions.php';
if (!empty($_POST)) {
$data['success'] = true;
$_POST = multiDimensionalArrayMap('cleanEvilTags', $_POST);
$_POST = multiDimensionalArrayMap('cleanData', $_POST);
//your email adress
$emailTo = "myemail#gmail.com"; //"myemail#gmail.com";
//from email adress
$emailFrom = "myemail#gmail.com"; //"myemail#gmail.com";
//email subject
$emailSubject = "Mail from MyEmail";
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$comment = $_POST["comment"];
if ($name == "")
$data['success'] = false;
if (!preg_match("/^[_\.0-9a-zA-Z-]+#([0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/i", $email))
$data['success'] = false;
if ($comment == "")
$data['success'] = false;
if ($data['success'] == true) {
$message = "NAME: $name<br>
EMAIL: $email<br>
COMMENT: $comment";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: <$emailFrom>" . "\r\n";
mail($emailTo, $emailSubject, $message, $headers);
$data['success'] = true;
echo json_encode($data);
}
}
I am really stuck at this point and this is the only issue I have left hope someone can help point out what I am doing wrong.
Regards,
Rafael
in order for a form to send POST requests you need to specify it by adding the method attribute:
<form id="contact-form" action="php/mail.php" method="post">
Is your php mail script placed in the cgi directory? This is my mail script:
<?php $name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['message']);
$subject = "Some subject";
$to = 'info#xxx.de';
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
// redirect afterwords, if needed
header('Location: ../contact/thx.html');?>
And it is placed in cgi directory.
After much research and help from CodeGoodie I think the blame lies with the Hosting. I had asked how I could check Server logs to detect the error and they just replied I need to upgrade to be able to use that feature (although it is supposed to be part of the feature already). Thanks for all the help guys. I did learn a lot :)

My contact form is not sending email

I've been trying to set up a contact form to send info to my email. I've checked the code and there's no syntax error or anything but I'm not receiving any test email. Can you please help me out?
Here's the HTML:
<!--Start of Contact Form-->
<div class="large-7 medium-10 small-12 medium-centered large-centered column">
<div class="row">
<form method="post" action="email2.php">
<input type="text" name="name" class="defaultText" title="your name">
<input type="text" name="email" class="defaultText" title="your email address">
<textarea name="comments1" class="defaultText" title="Tell us about your business"></textarea>
<textarea name="comments2" class="defaultText" title="How can we help?"></textarea>
<div class="large-7 medium-10 small-12 medium-centered large-centered column">
<input type="submit" name="send message" value="Send Message">
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<!--End of Contact Form-->
and here's the script:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
{
//send email
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$comments1 = $_POST['comments1'] ;
$comments2 = $_POST['comments2'] ;
mail("info#muzedimage.com", $name, $email, $comments1, $comments2
, "From:" . $email);
echo "<script>window.location = 'http://www.muzedimage.com'</script>";
}
else
//if "email" is not filled out,
{
echo "<script>window.location = 'http://www.muzedimage.com/contact'</script>";
}
?>
I would really appreciate the help guys.
You have passed wrong arguments to your mail function. Please read the mail() documentation.
The correct format is
mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )
In your case below is the correct code.
$to = 'info#muzedimage.com';
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$subject = 'add some subject'; // no subject could lead to email being flagged as spam
$comments1 = $_POST['comments1'] ;
$comments2 = $_POST['comments2'] ;
$message = $comments1 . "\n\n" . $comments2;
$headers = "From: $email";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
You need to use comments how you want to. In this case I assumed that they both consist the main message.
Hope that helps. And always read documentation!!

Contact form. How do I get the name along with the email?

It's my first time trying to make a contactform. And I've got a few problems
It's works, I get the email, but I don't get the name the name field with me in the email.
HTML:
<form method="post" name="contactform" action="scripts/contact.php">
<h3>Name</h3>
<input type="text" name="name">
<h3>Email Address</h3>
<input type="text" name="email">
<h3>Message</h3>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<br/><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send Form">
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$to = "name#domane.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $name, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>
$name is my problem. I've I have it in, the email comes from hostmaster#domane.com, If I delete it, everything works fine. But I wan't the name to be sent to me. How?
Or should I do it completely different?
Also, if you leave all the fields blank, the "user" doesn't get any error message, and a blank email is sent to me.
Hope you can help me. :)
Michael Berkowski is correct. What you'll need to do is add the name to your message's body (not in the sense of the input name= attribute, rather the body of the email).
Something like this:
<?php
$to = "name#domane.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$body = "Name: $name\r\n";
$body .= "Message: $message";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>
Revised:
HTML:
<form method="post" name="contactform" action="scripts/contact.php">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
<br/><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send Form" />
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;
$body = "Name: $name\r\n";
$body .= "Message: $message";
$to = "name#domane.com";
$from = "automailer#mydomainname.com (Website Automailer)";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
"Reply-To: $email ($name)";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ;
if($sent) { echo "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else { echo "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>
You should read the mail function documentation on php.net.
Have a look at the function signature:
bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )
Now you're placing $name as the "$additional_headers" argument. You should pass $name and any extra relevant data in a $message argument instead.
Having that said, here's the correct code to send a message:
$sent = mail($to, $subject, "A message from $name: $message", $headers);
You should read more about how email messages are constructed. Instead of just putting a user defined message in there you probably want to specify some email headers, containing a more beautiful FROM: and the like...

Why is this contact form not working?

It seems everything is in place:
PHP:
<?php
if (!empty($_POST['name'])){
$msg = "name". $_POST['name'];
}else{
$fname = NULL;
echo "Name Required.<br />";
}
if (!empty($_POST['email'])){
$msg = "email". $_POST['email'];
}else{
$lname = NULL;
echo "Email Required.<br />";
}
if (!empty($_POST['www'])){
$msg = "Website". $_POST['www'];
}else{
$lname = NULL;
echo "Website Required.<br />";
}
if (!empty($_POST['comment'])){
$msg = "Comment". $_POST['comment'];
}else{
$email = NULL;
echo "A comment is required.<br />";
}
$recipient = "myemail#gmail.com";
$subject = "Form Feedback";
$mailheaders = "Reply-to". $_POST['email'];
//send the mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>
HTML:
<div id="contact" style="height:280px; margin:1px 0;">
<form id="contactLP" method="post" action="inc/php/contact_validate.php">
<div class="align"><input type="text" name="name" tabindex="1" /></div>
<div class="align"><input type="text" name="email" tabindex="2" /></div>
<div class="align"><input type="text" name="www" tabindex="3" /></div>
<div class="align"><textarea id="txta" name="comment" cols="15" rows="5" tabindex="4"></textarea></div>
<span style="color:transparent;">test</span>
<br><br>
<div class="align"><input type="submit" class="submit" name="sendForm" id="SubmitContact" value="" tabindex="5" /></div>
</form>
</div><!--CONTACT-->
When I fill it out correctly and submit, it says "Thanks for your message" or something similiar, but then I get nothing in email.
I tried running this both on a server on the internet, along with on my local server running on my workstation.
Am I doing something wrong above???????
Yes, you are "name; $_POST['name'] "; should be "name". $_POST['name']; in every instance you use that string.
Your $msg is only holding the current value.
Try something like this for all your value assignment to $msg variable
$msg .= "Comment". $_POST['comment'];
mail function
You seem to have screwed up the $mailheaders variable slightly (reply-to section), try this code in a stand alone script. If even it fails, you may have to check your mail function and how it is set up on the server. (change the email addresses obviously)
<?php
$to = 'nobody#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

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