Send Contact Form not Working - php

Question

I've followed a simple tutorial for a send contact form, however it appears to be not working. Please can someone assist please.
Form below:
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<form action="send.php" method="post" name="form1">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="16%">Name</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%"><input id="Name" type="text" name="Name" size="50" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input id="customer_mail" type="text" name="customer_mail" size="50" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subject</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input id="Subject" type="text" name="Subject" size="50" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Detail</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><textarea id="detail" cols="50" name="detail" rows="4"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And here is my PHP:
<?php
$to ='kirsty.harris1985#gmail.com';
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
$Subject="$Subject";
$detail="$detail";
$send_contact=mail($to,$header,$Subject,$detail);
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
} else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>
This is the error:
Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://nqmedia.co.uk/send_contact.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.
And also the website is www.nqmedia.co.uk for people to see it.

Answer 1

Given that your inputs are named accordingly
try this:
$name = $_POST['Name'];
$mail_from = $_POST['customer_mail'];
$header = "from: $name <$mail_from>";
$Subject = $_POST['Subject'];
$detail = $_POST['detail'];

Answer 2

You never actually grab all the post values.
Make this your code for send.php:
<?php
$name = $_POST['Name'];
$mail_from = $_POST['customer_mail'];
$subject = $_POST['Name'];
$body = $_POST['detail'];
$to ='kirsty.harris1985#gmail.com';
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";
$send_contact=mail($to,$Subject,$body,$header);
if($send_contact){
echo "We've received your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>
Also, you misspelling "received" on your echo, so I fixed the spelling mistake.

Answer 3

Change your PHP to the following:
<?php
$to ='kirsty.harris1985#gmail.com';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$customer_mail = $_POST['customer_mail'];
$Subject = $_POST['Subject'];
$detail = $_POST['detail'];
$header="From: $name <$customer_mail>";
$send_contact=mail($to,$Subject,$detail,$header);
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
} else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>
No variable was defined properly, you needed to use $_POST to retrive the values from the form.
$mail_from (now $customer_mail) was used before it was defined.
The parameters used in the in the mail() function were used in the wrong order. Look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Check the action attribute on your form. It says "send.php", but the error shows "send_contact.php"