Help with a contact submit form

[razor_sharp]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble with a contact form I use on one of my sites. The fields include Name, Email Address, Phone Number, and Comments. Whenever I fill out the fields and press submit my confirmation page shows fine, but I never receive the info to my email address. My code is as follows:

my contact page,

<form action="mailer.php" method="post">

	  <fieldset>
	  <legend> Contact Us</legend>
	  <ol>
	  <li>
	  <label for="name">Name</label>
	  <input id="name" name="name" class="text" type="text" />
	  </li>
<li>
<label for="email"> Email address </label>
<input id="email" name="email" class="text" type="text" />
</li>
<li>
<label for="phone"> Phone Number</label>
<input id="phone" name="phone" class="text" type="text" />
</li>
<li>

<label for="for""comments">Comments</label>
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="2" wrap="virtual" class="text" id="comments"></textarea>
</li>
</ol>

</fieldset>

<fieldset class="submit">
<input class="submit" type="submit"
value="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>

mailer.php

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "tim@yahoo.com";
$subject = "Website Comments";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$phone_field = $_POST['phone'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];
 
$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Phone Number: $phone_field\n Comments:\n $comments";
 
echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";
mail($to, $subject, $body);

} else {

echo "Thanks for your message!";

}
?>

Thanks for any help

[STeeL_LT]

Replace:

echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";
mail($to, $subject, $body); 

with:

if (mail($to, $subject, $body))
{
    echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";
}
else
{
    echo "Email error";
} 

to see if email actually ever goes out.

[razor_sharp]

yeah i switched it to

else 
{
echo "Email error";
} 

instead of

else 
{
echo "Thanks for your message!";
} 

That was a mistake on my part cause I was defining a failed submit as "Thanks for your message"

Now that it has been switched it says "Email error" so the email is NOT going out.

Any further suggestions?

[STeeL_LT]

Are you running this script on your development machine? If so, you'll have to install and configure mail server.

If you're running on some web host, you may have to check their forums/wiki/knowledge base to see if they put some restrictions on sending email.

Alternatively you can try sending mail using SMTP, I would suggest using PHPMailer class for that. Here's an example on how to use it: http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/in...?pg=tutorial#2

[aguroyz]

I think the error that your input type submit does not have a name = 'submit' attribute... Just a wild guess though..

[razor_sharp]

Are you running this script on your development machine? If so, you'll have to install and configure mail server.

If you're running on some web host, you may have to check their forums/wiki/knowledge base to see if they put some restrictions on sending email.

Alternatively you can try sending mail using SMTP, I would suggest using PHPMailer class for that. Here's an example on how to use it: http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/in...?pg=tutorial#2

I will check into this info and post again in this thread if I'm still having trouble. Thanks for your help.