Form to Email PHP Script Not working.

Hi there!

I’m currently building my first website from the ground up for my business, and I’d like to add a contact form for customers to contact me. I have a framework that I’ve been using to help with certain things; it comes with a form to mail script. When I use the script, the submit button on my form is correctly directed to the script, but all it does is give me a blank page; it should go to a thank you page, “thanks.html”.

Here is the form:

[code]

                <li>
                  <label for="name"><em class="required">*</em> Name</label>
                  <input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="required" />
                </li>
                
                <li>
                  <label for="email"><em class="required">*</em> Email</label>
                  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="required" />
                </li>
        
                <li>
                  <label for="phone">Phone</label>
                  <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" />
                </li>
        
                <li>
                  <label for="message"><em class="required">*</em> Message</label>
                  <textarea name="message" id="message" class="required" ></textarea>
                </li>
                
                <li class="buttons submit">
                  <button type="submit">Send Message</button>
                </li>
            
            </ol>
          </form>  [/code]
    

    Here is the PHP script (E-mail and Website taken out):

    [php]<?php

    // This work is licensed under the MIT License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

    // OPTIONS - PLEASE CONFIGURE THESE BEFORE USE!

    $yourEmail = ""; // the email address you wish to receive these mails through
    $yourWebsite = ""; // the name of your website
    $thanksPage = 'thanks.html'; // URL to 'thanks for sending mail' page; leave empty to keep message on the same page 
    $maxPoints = 4; // max points a person can hit before it refuses to submit - recommend 4
    

    // — DO NOT EDIT BELOW HERE -----------------------

    $error_msg = null;
    $result = null;

    function isBot() {
    $bots = array(“Indy”, “Blaiz”, “Java”, “libwww-perl”, “Python”, “OutfoxBot”, “User-Agent”, “PycURL”, “AlphaServer”, “T8Abot”, “Syntryx”, “WinHttp”, “WebBandit”, “nicebot”);

    $isBot = false;
    foreach ($bots as $bot)
    if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $bot) !== false)
    	$isBot = true;
    
    if (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) || $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] == " ")
    	$isBot = true;
    
    exit("Bots not allowed.</p>");
    

    }

    if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] == “POST”) {
    function clean($data) {
    $data = trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($data)));
    return $data;
    }

    $points = (int)0;
    
    $badwords = array("redacted");
    
    foreach ($badwords as $word)
    	if (strpos($_POST['comments'], $word) !== false)
    		$points += 2;
    
    foreach ($exploits as $exploit)
    	if (strpos($_POST['comments'], $exploit) !== false)
    		$points += 2;
    
    if (strpos($_POST['comments'], "http://") !== false || strpos($_POST['comments'], "www.") !== false)
    	$points += 2;
    if (isset($_POST['nojs']))
    	$points += 1;
    if (preg_match("/(<.*>)/i", $_POST['comments']))
    	$points += 2;
    if (strlen($_POST['name']) < 3)
    	$points += 1;
    if (strlen($_POST['comments']) < 15 || strlen($_POST['comments'] > 1500))
    	$points += 2;
    
    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
    	$_POST[$key] = trim($value);
    
    if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['comments'])) {
    	$error_msg .= "Name, e-mail and comments are required fields. \n";
    } elseif (strlen($_POST['name']) > 15) {
    	$error_msg .= "The name field is limited at 15 characters. Your first name or nickname will do! \n";
    } elseif (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z-'\s]*$/", stripslashes($_POST['name']))) {
    	$error_msg .= "The name field must not contain special characters. \n";
    } elseif (!preg_match('/^([a-z0-9])(([-a-z0-9._])*([a-z0-9]))*\@([a-z0-9])(([a-z0-9-])*([a-z0-9]))+' . '(\.([a-z0-9])([-a-z0-9_-])?([a-z0-9])+)+$/i', strtolower($_POST['email']))) {
    	$error_msg .= "That is not a valid e-mail address. \n";
    } elseif (!empty($_POST['url']) && !preg_match('/^(http|https):\/\/(([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)(\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+)(:(\d+))?\/?/i', $_POST['url']))
    	$error_msg .= "Invalid website url.";
    
    if ($error_msg == NULL && $points <= $maxPoints) {
    	$subject = "Automatic Form Email";
    
    	$message = "You received this e-mail message through your website: \n\n";
    	foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
    		$message .= ucwords($key) . ": " . clean($val) . "\r\n";
    	}
    	$message .= 'IP: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\r\n";
    	$message .= 'Browser: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."\r\n";
    	$message .= 'Points: '.$points;
    
    	if (strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], "Win")) {
    		$headers   = "From: $yourEmail \r\n";
    		$headers  .= "Reply-To: {$_POST['email']}";
    	} else {
    		$headers   = "From: $yourWebsite <$yourEmail> \r\n";
    		$headers  .= "Reply-To: {$_POST['email']}";
    	}
    
    	if (mail($yourEmail,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
    		if (!empty($thanksPage)) {
    			header("Location: $thanksPage");
    			exit;
    		} else {
    			$result = 'Your mail was successfully sent.';
    		}
    	} else {
    		$error_msg = 'Your mail could not be sent this time.';
    	}
    } else {
    	if (empty($error_msg))
    		$error_msg = 'Your mail looks too much like spam, and could not be sent this time. ['.$points.']';
    }
    

    }
    function get_data($var) {
    if (isset($_POST[$var]))
    echo htmlspecialchars($_POST[$var]);
    }
    ?>
    [/php]

    Is there something blatantly obvious that’s wrong? Does anyone know what I can do?

    Thanks

Hi there,

I’m having the EXACT same issue and my code is pretty much identical (assuming its from the same framework). When I click ‘submit’ nothing happens at all. Did you ever figure this out?

thanks in advance,
Sean

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