Sending Email Through PHP - php

Question

I'm trying to create a forum where a user completes it and places their email on the forum so I know who it came from. Once completed, I validate and send the contents of the forum to my email address but I'm not getting any emails from the site.
Here is my HTML
<article class="contact" id="contact">
<div class="contact-content">
<div class="span5 contact-info">
<!-- Contact title -->
<div class="contact-title">
<h2>Contact</h2>
</div>
<div class="contact-scroll">
<p>Address: 123 Baker Street</p>
<p>Phone Number: (555) 555-555</p>
<p>E-Mail: example#gmail.com</p>
<div class="class1" style="position: absolute; display: none;">
<div class="class2">
<div class="class3" style="position: absolute; top: 0px;" oncontextmenu="return false;">
<div class="class4" style="position:relative;"></div></div><div class="class5"></div></div></div>
<!-- contact form -->
<div class="contact-form" style="margin-top: 10px;">
<form action="" method="post">
<input style="width: 185px; float:left; font-size:14pt; color: white; b" type="text" name="your-name" id="your-name" value="" size="40" class="wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-name" aria-required="true" placeholder="Full Name">
<input style="width: 185px; float:left; font-size:14pt; color: white;" type="email" name="your-email" id="your-email" value="" size="40" class="wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-email" aria-required="true" placeholder="Email Address">
<input style="width: 374px; font-size:14pt; color: white;" type="text" name="your-subject" id="your-subject" value="" size="40" class="wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-subject" placeholder="Company Name">
<textarea style="color: white; width: 373px;" name="your-message" id="your-message" cols="40" rows="10" class="wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-message" aria-required="true" placeholder="Your Message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" id="sub" name="sub" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</article>
Here is my php
if(isset($_POST['sub']))
{
$name = $_POST["your-name"];
$email = $_POST["your-email"];
$companyName = $_POST["your-subject"];
$message = $_POST["your-message"];
$to = "sendto#gmail.com";
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$subject = $name." from ".$companyName." just emailed from online CV";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
}
The "if" statement is executing properly because the echo is outputted. I've also tried to pass the values to an alert box and all the input values are displayed in the alert box using this php code. The only problem is I can't get it to email the inputs to the email address I've specified in my php code. I'm running this site on 000Webhost free servers. Is the a script I have to include in my index.php to make the mail function work? Do I have to configure something inside the control panel on my 000Webhost account? Or is this simply just a syntax error?
Thanks

Answer 1

Alright I just managed to figure this out. To make this work on gmail, I had to add extra stuff to my headers.
$headers = "From: {$email}\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$email}\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: {$email}\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP5\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-encoding: 8bit\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\r\n";
$headers .= "Importance: 0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$headers .= "Delivered-to: {$to}\r\n";
$subject = $name." from ".$companyName." just emailed you";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\n";
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "Mail Sent.";
}
else
{
echo "Mail was not sent!";
}
These extra headers are needed to have mail sent to Gmail accounts. Everything else from my original code worked fine as is.