Why isn't my php script working? - php

Question

EDIT: Apparently I have to pay to register another domain on their site to have email capabilities. Sorry for the wasted time, and thanks for the code fixes.
I don't have any experience with php. I am just starting to figure it out. I am trying to get my form to send the entered information to my email. I set an else tag but that is all that happens. If you see any errors please let me know. I really want this to work. See for yourself: Website The codes are:
HTML:
<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<label for="comment_author" class="required">Your Name</label>
<input name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="email" class="required">Your Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="comment" id="comment" class="required">Your Message</label><br/>
<textarea name="comment" rows="10" tabindex="4" required="required"></textarea><br/>
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Comment" />
<input id="send" name="send" type="hidden" value="1" />
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['comment'];
$from = 'From: '. $email;
$to = 'powersjesse#yahoo.com';
$subject = 'WEBSITE';
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
if ($_POST['send'] == "1") {
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $from)) {
echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>';
}}
?>
I get Something went wrong, go back and try again! when I'm trying to submit the form.
Updated code.

Answer 1

<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">
rather than method="request"
edited to add
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1
edited (in response to edited question code...) to add http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
your mail() parameters are in the wrong order; should be $to, $subject, $message [, $additional_headers, etc.]

Answer 2

According to your code:
if ($_REQUEST['submit']) {
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $from))
{
echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
}
else
{
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>';
}
}
Getting the output of:
Something went wrong, go back and try again!
Means that something went wrong with the mail() function, it returned false , otherwise we would see the Your message has been sent! message.
The problem with the mail() function is that it doesn't show any errors or warning , it just returns false.
How to locate the problem?
Try writing something like:
if(mail("your.working.email#gmail.com" , "A subject for example" , "the content of this email","From: no-reply#yourdomain.com"))
echo "We are good";
else
echo "Something not workin";
If it works , check out the value of any of your posted variables right after declaring them.
echo $name;
echo $email;
echo $message;
Make sure that those variables are not empty and that the $email variable contains a legal and validated email address.
If the basic mail usage didn't work - it's something related to your php settings (php.ini) or a limitation by your server (contact your hosting company).
EDIT1: About your html form , the type attribute of the input fields should be text and not name or email.
Instead of <input type="email"...
Write <input type="text"...

Answer 3

<form action="post_comment.php" method="get" id="commentform">
<label for="comment_author" class="required">Your Name</label>
<input name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="email" class="required">Your Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="comment" id="comment" class="required">Your Message</label><br/>
<textarea name="comment" rows="10" tabindex="4" required="required"></textarea><br/>
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Comment" />
</form>
method must be get/post

Answer 4

Your field "submit" is a HTML button to submit the form and will not be added to the form. Add another input field which is not visible:
<input id="send" name="send" type="hidden" value="1" />
and access the field in PHP with:
if ($_REQUEST['send'] == "1") {
I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

the name of the textarea is comment and you're using it as message in this line,
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
Needs to be,
$message = $_REQUEST['comment'];
Also, the method of the form submission, needs to be POST like this,
<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">

Answer 6

please change form as follows
<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">
In the form you can use only get/post

Answer 7

Try this
<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<label for="comment_author" class="required">Your Name</label>
<input name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="email" class="required">Your Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="comment" id="comment" class="required">Your Message</label><br/>
<textarea name="comment" rows="10" tabindex="4" required="required"></textarea><br/>
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Comment" />
and in your post page..
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST')
{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: '. $email;
$to = 'powersjesse#yahoo.com';
$subject = 'WEBSITE';
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
$headers = "From: $from \r\n";
//$headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers);
}

Answer 8

-> Use POST instead of REQUEST
-> comment chaged to message
HTML
<form action="post_comment.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<label for="comment_author" class="required">Your Name</label>
<input name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="email" class="required">Your Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" required="required"><br/><br/>
<label for="comment" id="comment" class="required">Your Message</label><br/>
<textarea name="message" rows="10" tabindex="4" required="required"></textarea><br/>
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Comment" />
</form>
PHP
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = 'From: '. $email;
$to = 'powersjesse#yahoo.com';
$subject = 'WEBSITE';
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
if ($_POST['submit']) {
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $from)) {
echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>';
}}
?>