Ajax Contact Form Problems - No email being sent - php

Question

Sorry for being a noob but I'm trying my best. I've done and read everything I could find and I have never got this to work. Would really appreciate the help. The form id matches in the html and javascript. The PHP is linked in the Javascript and I have the javascript linked in the head of my html. What am I missing? I've tried other codes I found online as well and nothing.. The issue is that no email ever gets sent through. If you hit send the page reloads and thats it.
<!--[if lte IE 8]><script src="js/html5shiv.js"></script><![endif]-->
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.dropotron.js"></script>
<script src="js/skel.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/skel-panels.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/init.js"></script>
<script src="js/contact.js"></script>
<noscript>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/skel-noscript.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style-noscript.css" />
</noscript>
<!-- Contact Form-->
<div class="content style4 featured">
<div class="container small">
<form id="contact" form method="post">
<div class="row half">
<div class="6u"><input type="text" class="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" /></div>
<div class="6u"><input type="text" class="text" placeholder="Email" name="email" /></div>
</div>
<div class="row half">
<div class="12u"><textarea name="text" placeholder="Message"></textarea></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="12u">
<ul class="actions">
<li><input type="submit" class="button" value="Send Message" /></li>
<li><input type="reset" class="button alt" value="Clear Form" /></li>
<p class="success" style="display:none">Your message has been sent successfully.</p>
<p class="error" style="display:none">E-mail must be valid and message must be longer than 100 characters.</p>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
PHP
<?php
// Email Submit
// Note: filter_var() requires PHP >= 5.2.0
if ( isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['text']) && filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) ) {
// detect & prevent header injections
$test = "/(content-type|bcc:|cc:|to:)/i";
foreach ( $_POST as $key => $val ) {
if ( preg_match( $test, $val ) ) {
exit;
}
}
//send email
mail( "test#gmail.com", "Contact Form: ".$_POST['name'], $_POST['text'], "From:" . $_POST['email'] );
}
?>
JS
$('#contact').submit(function() {
var name = $("#name").val();
var email = $("#email").val();
var message = $("#message").val();
var dataString = 'name=' + name + '&email=' + email + '&message=' + message;
$.ajax({
type : "POST",
url : "mail.php",
data : dataString,
cache : false,
success : function() {
$("#contact").fadeOut(300);
$("#notice").fadeIn(400);
}
});
return false;
});
Thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe your js code run before jQuery has been loaded. Try to include jQuery before other js files:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.dropotron.js"></script>
<script src="js/skel.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/skel-panels.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/init.js"></script>
<script src="js/contact.js"></script>
By the way, you just need to include jQuery once, not twice.

Answer 2

Your textarea has a name="message" whereas you are looking for isset($_POST['text']) in the submission handler code