PHP, Not able to send Emails - php

Question

I would like to have a contact form on my that requires the *fullname, *email address, and *subject and *message. I followed a tutorial to develop my form but for some reason it is not sending my test message.
I'm not experienced enough with PHP to figure out what I am doing wrong, so I am hoping to get suggestions on how to resolve this issue. All questions, suggestions, and possible solutions are welcome. Thanks.
contact form php:
Code:
<?php
// EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINE BELOW AS REQUIRED
$send_email_to = "jb#me.com";
function send_email($name,$email,$email_subject,$email_message)
{
global $send_email_to;
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$email. "\r\n";
$message = "<strong>Email = </strong>".$email."<br>";
$message .= "<strong>Name = </strong>".$name."<br>";
$message .= "<strong>Message = </strong>".$email_message."<br>";
#mail($send_email_to, $email_subject, $message,$headers);
return true;
}
function validate($name,$email,$message,$subject)
{
$return_array = array();
$return_array['success'] = '1';
$return_array['name_msg'] = '';
$return_array['email_msg'] = '';
$return_array['message_msg'] = '';
$return_array['subject'] = '';
if($email == '')
{
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['email_msg'] = 'email is required';
}
else
{
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email)) {
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['email_msg'] = 'enter valid email.';
}
}
if($name == '')
{
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['name_msg'] = 'name is required';
}
else
{
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if (!preg_match($string_exp, $name)) {
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['name_msg'] = 'enter valid name.';
}
}
if($subject == '')
{
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['subject_msg'] = 'subject is required';
}
if($message == '')
{
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['message_msg'] = 'message is required';
}
else
{
if (strlen($message) < 2) {
$return_array['success'] = '0';
$return_array['message_msg'] = 'enter valid message.';
}
}
return $return_array;
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$return_array = validate($name,$email,$message,$subject);
if($return_array['success'] == '1')
{
send_email($name,$email,$subject,$message);
}
header('Content-type: text/json');
echo json_encode($return_array);
die();
?>
Contact Form HTML:
Code:
<fieldset id="contact_form">
<div id="msgs"> </div>
<form id="cform" name="cform" method="post" action="">
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="Full Name*" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Full Name*') this.value = ''"
onblur="if(this.value == '') this.value = 'Full Name*'" />
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="Email Address*" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Email Address*') this.value = ''"
onblur="if(this.value == '') this.value = 'Email Address*'" />
<input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" value="Subject*" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Subject*') this.value = ''"
onblur="if(this.value == '') this.value = 'Subject*'" />
<textarea id="msg" name="msg" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Your Message*') this.value = ''"
onblur="if(this.value == '') this.value = 'Your Message*'">Your Message*</textarea>
<button id="submit" class="button"> Send Message</button>
</form>
</fieldset>

Answer 1

Your form's action isn't set to anything. You'll need to point it at the script you have there that sends the email.
Ie:
<form id.. name.. method.. action="/handle_post.php">

Answer 2

Set the correct action and then try it should work..
if it still does not work test it with curl utility to see if ur script is fine..
One more mistake that i saw was that ur text area form name is msg while on server ur expecting ur post request it have message. That wont work..
If u still face problem then we wd debug further :)

Answer 3

First you need to set action to some script that will handle $_POST inputs (contactform.php) or $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] for the same file.
Second you should send data by input type=submit not button.