Hi there,
I know nothing about coding/PHP, and am running into an error message when trying to use the contact form included on my website. I've been unable to get in touch with the web designer, and would really appreciate if someone could help out - I'm presuming the error is something that can be easily fixed.
When a form is submitted it comes up with the error: "An error occured. Please try again later" - I have no idea why!
I have included the full mail.php code here, I'd really appreciate if anyone can advise me on how to fix.
Thanks
I know nothing about coding/PHP, and am running into an error message when trying to use the contact form included on my website. I've been unable to get in touch with the web designer, and would really appreciate if someone could help out - I'm presuming the error is something that can be easily fixed.
When a form is submitted it comes up with the error: "An error occured. Please try again later" - I have no idea why!
I have included the full mail.php code here, I'd really appreciate if anyone can advise me on how to fix.
Thanks
<?php
/* =====================================================
* change this to the email you want the form to send to
* ===================================================== */
$email_to = "[email protected]";
$email_subject = "Contact Form submitted";
if(isset($_POST['email']))
{
function return_error($error)
{
echo $error;
die();
}
// check for empty required fields
if (!isset($_POST['name']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['message']))
{
return_error('Please fill in all required fields.');
}
// form field values
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email = $_POST['email']; // required
$contact_number = $_POST['contact_number']; // not required
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
// form validation
$error_message = "";
// name
$name_exp = "/^[a-z0-9 .\-]+$/i";
if (!preg_match($name_exp,$name))
{
$this_error = 'Please enter a valid name.';
$error_message .= ($error_message == "") ? $this_error : "<br/>".$this_error;
}
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if (!preg_match($email_exp,$email))
{
$this_error = 'Please enter a valid email address.';
$error_message .= ($error_message == "") ? $this_error : "<br/>".$this_error;
}
// if there are validation errors
if(strlen($error_message) > 0)
{
return_error($error_message);
}
// prepare email message
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string)
{
$bad = array("content-type", "bcc:", "to:", "cc:", "href");
return str_replace($bad, "", $string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email)."\n";
$email_message .= "Contact number: ".clean_string($contact_number)."\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if (@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers))
{
echo 'Form submitted successfully.';
}
else
{
echo 'An error occured. Please try again later.';
die();
}
}
else
{
echo 'Please fill in all required fields.';
die();
}
?>