formmail not sending

**barrygoddard** · 09-14-2012 03:56 AM

Morning all,

I wondered if someone could help me please.

I have created a website with a contact me section. I have used formmail to get the message over to me, but something isn't quite right as it isn't sending. It shows invalid email address.

I used the same code on another site and it worked perfectly (after some tweaking).

Is it possible someone could have a look for me and give me some tips?

The site is www.barrygoddard.com and the contact form is right at the bottom.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

**holyhttp** · 09-14-2012 10:45 PM

Your email field needs to have a name pre-defined by the formmail.
Currently you have <input type="text" placeholder="Your email ...">
which should be:
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email ...">
or
<input type="text" name="email_address" placeholder="Your email ...">

You can quickly look into the formmail.php file to see what name is actually used for the email address field.
It can be email, emailaddress, email_address,... you get the idea.

By the way the other 2 fields for the visitor's name and the message should also each have a name or you will not receive that data the user has filled out.

**barrygoddard** · 09-15-2012 03:27 AM

Hi, thanks for the info. This is what I've got now, but it is still throwing up the same errro?

<div class="textField"><input type="text" name"name" placeholder="Your name ..." /></div>
<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email ..."></div>
<div class="textField"><textarea cols="20" rows="4" name"message" placeholder="Your message ..."></textarea></div>

I've checked the formmail.php and I think that is the right names. I've put the whole of the formmail.php file below, but last time I had an issue with formmail it was this line that was causing the problems " if (!ereg("^[-a-z0-9_.]+@[-a-z0-9_]+\.([-a-z0-9_.]+)*[-a-z0-9_.]+$", $email))"

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://barrygoddard.com/thanks.html">
<title>Email Form</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$name=addslashes($_POST['name']);
$email=addslashes($_POST['email']);
$comments=addslashes($_POST['message']);

// you can specify which email you want your contact form to be emailed to here

$toemail = "MY EMAIL ADDRESS";
$subject = "From barrygoddard.com";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
."From: \"".$name."\" <".$email.">\n"
."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

$body = "Name: ".$name."<br>\n"
."Email: ".$email."<br>\n"
."Comments:<br>\n"
.$comments;

if (!ereg("^[-a-z0-9_.]+@[-a-z0-9_]+\.([-a-z0-9_.]+)*[-a-z0-9_.]+$", $email))
{
$email_error = "Enter a valid email";
$send = "no";
}
echo "That is not a valid email address. Please return to the"
." previous page and try again.";
exit;

mail($toemail, $subject, $body, $headers);
echo "Thanks for submitting your comments";
?>
</body>
</html>

**rtrethewey** · 09-15-2012 10:52 AM

You've still got syntax errors in your HTML. Try:

Code:

<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name ..." /></div>
<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email ..."></div>
<div class="textField"><textarea cols="20" rows="4" name="message" placeholder="Your message ..."></textarea></div>

Those missing "="s matter. Spend some time learning HTML. When you run into trouble, use a validator like http://validator.w3.org/ to check your code for errors - at least until you gain more experience. You'll save yourself a lot of time and grief.

**barrygoddard** · 09-15-2012 11:54 AM

Thanks very much. I'll give it a go when I'm home.

Will look into the validation too. Thanks

**barrygoddard** · 09-15-2012 03:08 PM

Hi, tried this in the index.html file, but still getting the same error.

I added;

<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name ..." /></div>
<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email ..."></div>
<div class="textField"><textarea cols="20" rows="4" name="message" placeholder="Your message ..."></textarea></div>

I think my problem is more to do with the php file not being written as it should be. Any other ideas?

**barrygoddard** · 09-18-2012 09:39 AM

I have changed the php file to something more simple. I am now receiving mail, but the fields are blank.

This is the php;

Code:

<?php
$name = $_POST['cf_name'];
$email = $_POST['cf_email'];
$message = $_POST['cf_message'];

$mail_to = 'MY EMAIL ADDRESS';
$subject = 'an email from barrygoddard.com'.$field_name;

$body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		window.location = 'thanks.html';
	</script>
<?php
}
else { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to MY EMAIL ADDRESS');
		window.location = 'index.html';
	</script>
<?php
}
?>

and this is the html;

Code:

									<div class="formRow">
						<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="cf_name" placeholder="Your name ..." /></div>
						<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="cf_mail" placeholder="Your email ..."></div>
						<div class="textField"><textarea cols="20" rows="4" name="cf_message" placeholder="Your message ..."></textarea></div>
									</div>
									<div class="formRow">

Any suggestions?

**rtrethewey** · 09-18-2012 01:12 PM

Change the first three lines of the script to:

Code:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

The parameter names here must match the 'name' attribute of your <input> tags in your form.

**barrygoddard** · 09-19-2012 02:19 AM

I really appreciate your time on this.

I've changed the code, but the email is coming through as follows;

From:
E-mail:
Message:

It is also coming from an unknown sending (which may be the way it is supposed to be).

Any other thoughts?

**ZABI** · 09-19-2012 03:07 AM

$field_name = $_POST['cf_name'];
$field_email = $_POST['cf_email'];
$field_message = $_POST['cf_message'];

**barrygoddard** · 09-19-2012 03:13 AM

Thanks, I was just looking at that.

I've changed them to;

$field_name = $_POST['name'];
$field_email = $_POST['email'];
$field_message = $_POST['message'];

Still getting blank messages!

**barrygoddard** · 09-19-2012 03:18 AM

Just to confirm, this is the current formmail and html that I am using;

Code:

							<div class="formRow">
						<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name ..." /></div>
						<div class="textField"><input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email ..."></div>
						<div class="textField"><textarea cols="20" rows="4" name="message" placeholder="Your message ..."></textarea></div>
									</div>
									<div class="formRow">
										<button class="btnSmall btn submit right">
											<span>Send Message</span>
										</button>
									</div>
								</fieldset>
							</form>
						</div>

AND

Code:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$mail_to = 'MY EMAIL ADDRESS';
$subject = 'an email from MY EMAIL ADDRESS'.$field_name;

$body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		window.location = 'thanks.html';
	</script>
<?php
}
else { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to MY EMAIL ADDRESS');
		window.location = 'index.html';
	</script>
<?php
}
?>

**ZABI** · 09-19-2012 04:05 AM

another thing to make sure: are your fields inside a form and the method is set to POST for this form

**barrygoddard** · 09-19-2012 04:12 AM

Thanks, i've added the method to be post and it is within a form (and the form closes), but still getting blank messages.

Code:

							<form action="THE LOCATION OF MY PHP FILE" class="form" id="formmail" method="post">

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