Hi, I’m new so please forgive me if I have done anything that is not accepted. My form is giving me the custom error message when I try to send a message, but from what I can see all code is correct. It seems the specific error is the PHP mail() function has a problem with sending a message. I have another form elsewhere on my website and also conducted a test on my server and it works fine. It’s just this form. I apologize if it’s a stupid error or oversight, but I’ve been at it for days now and can’t seem to fix the problem.
The problem is with the first file- Contact form PHP. I have just included the others for reference.
Contact form PHP
[php][code]<?php
// Get email address
require_once ‘config.php’;
// Ensures no one loads page and does simple spam check
if(isset($_POST[‘name’]) && empty($_POST[‘spam-check’])) {
// Declare our $errors variable we will be using later to store any errors
$error = '';
// Setup our basic variables
$input_name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$input_email = strip_tags($_POST['email']);
$input_subject = strip_tags($_POST['subject']);
$input_message = strip_tags($_POST['message']);
// We'll check and see if any of the required fields are empty
if(strlen($input_name) < 2) $error['name'] = 'Please enter your name.';
if(strlen($input_message) < 5) $error['message'] = 'Please leave a message.';
// Make sure the email is valid
if(!filter_var($input_email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) ) $error['email'] = 'Please enter a valid email address.';
// Set a subject & check if custom subject exist
$subject = "Message from $input_name";
if($input_subject ) $subject .= ": $input_subject";
$message = "$input_message\n";
$message .= "\n---\nThis email was sent by contact form.";
// Now check to see if there are any errors
if(!$error) {
// No errors, send mail using conditional to ensure it was sent
if(mail($your_email_address, $subject, $message, "From: $input_email")) {
echo '<p class="success">Your email has been sent!</p>';
} else {
echo '<p class="error">There was a problem sending your email!</p>';
}
} else {
// Errors were found, output all errors to the user
$response = (isset($error['name'])) ? $error['name'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['email'])) ? $error['email'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['message'])) ? $error['message'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
echo "<p class='warning'>$response</p>";
}
} else {
die('Direct access to this page is not allowed.');
}
?>[/code][/php]
The PHP from the Config file noted in above form
[php][code]<?php
/* Contact Form
---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
// Enter your email address
$your_email_address = ‘[email protected]’;
/* Instagram Feed
---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
// Twitter account name
$user_id = ‘mvrkmvjor’;
// Twitter cache time (default is 1 hour ( 60 minutes ) )
$instagram_cachetime = 60;
?>[/code][/php]
HTML of form
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