Using PHP's mail() - name.com hosting issue - php

Question

my site is hosted on name.com, and to test this I uploaded a simple file called contact.php with this at the top.
<?php
$to = '~~~~';
$subject = 'enquiry from ';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email - $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if ($_POST){
mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
$feedback = "Sent";
}
?>
So, when I click the submit button it sends the mail. Inside a p tag I have echo $feedback, which shows up after I click submit.
The mail does not send? Anything I'm doing wrong here, or do I need to configure my cPanel in some way?

Answer 1

Since header is optional and is left undefined, removing it should resolve your issue.

Answer 2

Be aware that using the $_POST content directly into a email is a security risk for you!
THere are good email libraries that have tools to avoid abuses. (For example: ZendMail, PHPmailer)
Having said that, on your code you are missing the header and have a small mistake on $email = (not -) $_POST['email'];, you can use this:
$header = 'From: from#name.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: from#name.com' . "\r\n" .
'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

Answer 3

You have not set header variable which is optional, there is a typo while setting $email variable, you've use - instead of =
your updated code,
<?php
$to = 'a#a.com';
$subject = 'enquiry from ';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if ($_POST){
mail($to, $subject, $message);
$feedback = "Sent";
}
?>