PHP contact form submitting but not receiving email - php

Question

I realise this question has been asked numerous times before but everyone's code is obviously different and I am quite new to php so just looking to see if someone can give me some help.
I have created a basic contact form for a site but for some reason the information is not being sent to my email address although I believe that the form is submitted?
my PHP code is:
<?php
session_start();
//$to_mail = "architects#palavin.com,t.lavin#palavin.com,12yorkcourt#gmail.com";
$to_mail = "danny#enhance.ie";
//$cc="paul#enhance.ie";
$mail_sent = 0;
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
//echo "the form was submitted";
$error= array();
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
if($name == "")
$error['name'] = 1;
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
if($email == "")
$error['email'] = 1;
$phone = trim(strip_tags($_POST['phone']));
$address = trim(strip_tags($_POST['address']));
$description = trim(strip_tags($_POST['description']));
$str = trim(strip_tags($_POST['secu']));
if ( isset($_SESSION['code_']) && $_SESSION['code_'] == strtoupper($str)){} else {$error['secu'] = 1;}
if(empty($error)){
$headers = 'From: "Euro Insulation" <no-reply#euroinsulations.ie>'."\r\n";
//$headers .= 'CC: "'.$cc.'" <'.$cc.'>'."\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "";
$subject = "New contact message";
$message = "New Contact message, received from: <br /> \n ";
$message .= "<b>Name</b> ".$name."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Email</b> ".$email."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Phone</b> ".$phone."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Address</b> ".$address."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Description</b> ".$description."<br /> \n";
if(#mail($to_mail,$subject,$message,$headers ))
{
echo "mail sent";
$mail_sent = 1;
}
else echo "mail not sent";
}
}
?>
my html form looks like this:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<td width="65%" valign="top"><p class="header"><br>
Contact US <br>
</p>
<?php if($mail_sent==1){
print "Thank you for your message.";
} else { ?>
<form class="email_sub" method="post" >
<table width="77%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><label for="name" class="formtext" <?php if($error['name']==1) echo "style='color:red;'" ?> >Name:</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" id="text" <?php if($name) echo "value='".$name."'" ?> /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="phone" class="formtext">Number:</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone"/><tr>
<br />
<tr>
<td><label for="email" class="textarea" <?php if($error['email']==1) echo "style='color:red;'" ?>>Email:</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" <?php if($email) echo "value='".$email."'" ?> /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><label for="address" class="textarea">Address/Location of project:</label></td>
<td><textarea rows="3" cols="20" name="address" id="address" style="width: 400px;"><?php if($address!="") echo $address ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<br />
<tr>
<td><label for="description" class="fixedwidth">Enquiry</label></td>
<td><textarea rows="3" cols="20" name="description" id="description" style="width: 400px;"><?php if($description!="") echo $description; ?></textarea></td>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<!-- form -->
<tr>
<td><label> </label></td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php } ?>
Am i missing something obvious here?? Any help will really be appreciated thanks!

Answer 1

You have used sessions which is not required here, you can also use flag variable instead of arrays in this simple form, use this updated code.
<?php
//$to_mail = "architects#palavin.com,t.lavin#palavin.com,12yorkcourt#gmail.com";
$to_mail = "danny#enhance.ie";
//$cc="paul#enhance.ie";
$mail_sent = 0;
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
//echo "the form was submitted";
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
if($name == "")
$error = true;
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
if($email == "")
$error = true;
$phone = trim(strip_tags($_POST['phone']));
$address = trim(strip_tags($_POST['address']));
$description = trim(strip_tags($_POST['description']));
if($error != true){
$headers = 'From: "Euro Insulation" <no-reply#euroinsulations.ie>'."\r\n";
//$headers .= 'CC: "'.$cc.'" <'.$cc.'>'."\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "";
$subject = "New contact message";
$message = "New Contact message, received from: <br /> \n ";
$message .= "<b>Name</b> ".$name."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Email</b> ".$email."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Phone</b> ".$phone."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Address</b> ".$address."<br /> \n";
$message .= "<b>Description</b> ".$description."<br /> \n";
if(#mail($to_mail,$subject,$message,$headers))
{
echo "mail sent";
$mail_sent = 1;
}
else echo "mail not sent";
} else {
echo 'validation error';
}
}
?>
You have also missed out the else statement for your form validation test so no errors getting displayed when you submit form.

Answer 2

Remove the at sign from mail function and see what errors your get. #mail suppresses errors from being displayed.

Answer 3

Comment out the following line: if ( isset($SESSION['code']) && $SESSION['code'] == strtoupper($str)){} else {$error['secu'] = 1;}
You should be able to reach the mail function.