Sending a form to email not working - php

Question

I am trying to make a form that will be sent to my email. But it display errors on submission. Javascript to validate the form is not shown but it works fine.
I am not sure what's wrong with my code below, been trying to figure out all day and reading various threads but to no avail.
Below is my php code to handle the form.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "me#gmail.com";
$email_subject = "Nexwave Form";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$designation = $_POST['designation'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$contact = $_POST['contact'];
$email = $_POST['email']; // not required
$users = $_POST['users']; // required
$error_message = "";
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Designation: ".clean_string($designation)."\n";
$email_message .= "company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
$email_message .= "Contact ".clean_string($contact)."\n";
$email_message .= "email: ".clean_string($email)."\n";
$email_message .= "Number of Users: ".clean_string($users)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
echo (int) mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>
Below is my html code:
<form name="form" action="send_mail.php" onSubmit="return validateForm();" method="POST">
Name<br/><input name="name" type="text" style="width:90%;"/><br/>
Designation<br/><input name="designation" type="text" style="width:90%;"/><br/>
Company<br/><input name="company" type="text" style="width:90%;"/><br/>
Contact Number<br/><input name="contact" type="text" style="width:90%;"/><br/>
Email<br/><input name="email" type="text" style="width:90%;"/><br/>
Number of Users<br/><input name="users" type="text" style="width:90%;"/>
<span style="text-align:right;display:block;width:174px;"><input style="height:25px;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;background-color:#ffffff;border:0;color:#009110;" type="submit" class="submit" value="Submit" /></span>
</form>
below is the error:
This is what i get even after changing the email_address and email_from.
"; echo $error."
"; echo "Please go back and fix these errors.
"; die(); } $name = $_POST['name']; // required $designation = $_POST['designation']; $company = $_POST['company']; $contact = $_POST['contact']; $email = $_POST['email']; // not required $users = $_POST['users']; // required $error_message = ""; $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n"; function clean_string($string) { $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); return str_replace($bad,"",$string); } $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Designation: ".clean_string($designation)."\n"; $email_message .= "company: ".clean_string($company)."\n"; $email_message .= "Contact ".clean_string($contact)."\n"; $email_message .= "email: ".clean_string($email)."\n"; $email_message .= "Number of Users: ".clean_string($users)."\n"; // create email headers $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n". 'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); echo (int) mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); ?> Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
your help is very much appreciated

Answer 1

You have many errors present in this script as mentioned by question comments above.
email form name email_address is not the same as $_POST['email']
you are not defining $email_from before you call it.
I would do some simple testing before posting a question like this and try to echo out all the variables one by one and see what you get. This would show you the two mentioned errors. And if you cannot solve it and still have errors then please post your error message so others can be of more assistance than just it doesn't work.