Wordpress contact form - php

Question

I've a very basic contact form on my Wordpress site (hard coded) and I can't get things to work. It works locally fine through XAMPP and I'm sure it's something I'm just missing but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!. I'm also using a template I created
<?php /* Template Name: contact */?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
//vars declared to store form input
$name=$email=$comment=$phone="";
//Error vars - to relay error message to the form
$nameError=$emailError=$commentError="";
$error_message="";
$sentMessage="";
$status=0; //Will monitor if all fields have no errors and increment if so.
function sanitise_var($string){
htmlentities($string);
strip_tags($string);
return stripslashes($string);
}
if(isset($_POST['submitted'])){
if($_POST['name']==""){
$nameError="Please enter a name";
$error_message="Oops, error in the form. Please check";
}
else {
$name=$_POST['name'];
++$status;
}
if($_POST['email'] == "" || !preg_match("/^[a-z0-9_.-]*#[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i", $_POST['email'])){
$error_message="Oops, error in the form. Please check";
$emailError="Please enter a valid email";
}
else{
$email=$_POST['email'];
++$status;
}
if(!$_POST['phone']=="") $phone=$_POST['phone'];
if($_POST['comment']==""){
$error_message="Oops, error in the form. Please check";
$commentError="Please enter a message";
}
else{
$comment=$_POST['comment'];
++$status;
}
}//submitted if statement
if($status==3 && $_POST['submitted']){
$sentMessage="From: $name, email: $email, Phone: $phone, Comment: $comment";
wp_mail("mathornley#gmail.com", "From Android Scoop contact form", $sentMessage);
echo "Thanks, your email was sent successfully!";
}
else{
echo<<<SOQ
<div class="entry-content">
<h1 class="entry-title">Contact</h1>
<p class="contact">
If you have a query drop us a line using the form below. We're always happy to hear from people with ideas for posts and content they'd like to feature or maybe write about. Or maybe you just have some feedback you'd like to share with us. Why not just swing by and say hello.
</p>
<p class="requiring">* Denotes required fields</p>
<div class="form_left">
<form action="/contact/" method="POST">
<p><label>Name:</label><input type="text" name="name" value="$name"/></p>
<p class="error">$nameError</p>
<p><label>Email</label><input type="text" name="email" value="$email"/></p>
<p class="error">$emailError</p>
<p><label>Phone:</label><input type="text" name="phone" value="$phone"/></p>
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="yes"/>
<input type="submit" value="Send your message"/>
</div>
<div class="form_right">
<p><label>Message:</label><br/><textarea name="comment" rows="20" cols="20">$comment</textarea></p>
<p class="error">$commentError</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
SOQ;
}
?>
<?php get_footer();?>

Answer 1

Try to use blank value for action like:
<form action="" method="POST">
If that doesn't work try renaming name parameter of the first input field to something else like:
<input type="text" name="myname" value="$name"/>

Answer 2

Am not aware about the wordpress but as the general PHP rules go, and according to what you replied me in the comment, the error lies here
<form action="/contact/" method="POST">
----^----

Answer 3

Why won't you use some out-of-the-box contact form for WordPress? For example, Contact Form 7 is pretty good.
Contact Form 7 is an open source software and can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Installation
Upload the entire contact-form-7 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in
WordPress.
You will find ‘Contact’ menu in your WordPress admin
panel.
Create a contact form, copy it's url, paste it everywhere you want.
Contact form will appear exactly in it's location.
If you want an example, you can check out this site to see it's look & feel.