PHP - Email Not Received When Contact Form Is Submitted

I really need some help.  I am very new to PHP and I've been stuck for a couple of days.  I created a contact form and everything seems to be working correctly, except the mail is showing it's sent, but I never receive an email in my Inbox or Spam folder.  Can someone please review my code?

Here is the PHP:

<?php
  // DEFINE VARIABLE AND SET EMPTY VALUES
  $varfnameErr = $varlnameErr = $varemailErr = $varphoneErr = $varpositionErr = "";
  $varfname = $varlname = $varemail = $varphone = $varposition = $success = "";

  
  //FORM SUBMITTED WITH POST METHOD
  if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

    //VALIDATE FIRST NAME
    if (empty($_POST["varfname"])) {
      $varfnameErr = "First Name is required";
    } else {
      $varfname = test_input($_POST["varfname"]);
      // MAKE SURE FIRST NAME ONLY CONTAINS LETTERS AND WHITE SPACE
      if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$varfname)) {
        $varfnameErr = "Only letters and white space are allowed";
      }
    }

    //VALIDATE LAST NAME
    if (empty($_POST["varlname"])) {
      $varlnameErr = "Last Name is required";
    } else {
      $varlname = test_input($_POST["varlname"]);
      // MAKE SURE LAST NAME ONLY CONTAINS LETTERS AND WHITE SPACE
      if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$varlname)) {
        $varlnameErr = "Only letters and white space are allowed";
      }
    }
  
    //VALIDATE EMAIL ADDRESS
    if (empty($_POST["varemail"])) {
      $varemailErr = "Email Address is required";
    } else {
      $varemail = test_input($_POST["varemail"]);
      // MAKE SURE EMAIL ADDRESS IS FORMATTED CORRECTLY
      if (!filter_var($varemail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
        $varemailErr = "Invalid email address format";
      }
    }

    //VALIDATE PHONE NUMBER
    if (empty($_POST["varphone"])) {
      $varphoneErr = "Phone number is required";
    } else {
      $varphone = test_input($_POST["varphone"]);
      // MAKE SURE PHONE NUMBER IS IN CORRECT FORMAT
      if (!preg_match("/^(\d[\s-]?)?[\(\[\s-]{0,2}?\d{3}[\)\]\s-]{0,2}?\d{3}[\s-]?\d{4}$/i",$varphone)) {
        $varphoneErr = "Invalid telephone format";
      }
    }
	
    //VALIDATE POSITION
    if (empty($_POST["varposition"])) {
      $varpositionErr = "Position is required";
    } else {
      $varposition = test_input($_POST["varposition"]);
    }

    //IF ALL DATA IS CORRECT
    if ($varfnameErr == '' and $varlnameErr == '' and $varemailErr == '' and $varphoneErr == '' and $varpositionErr == '') {
      $message_body = '';
      unset($_POST['submit']);

      //THIS IS JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES
      $message_body = $varfname;

      //foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
      //    $message_body .= "$key: $value\n";
      //}
      $to = 'mygmail@gmail.com';
      $subject = 'Volunteer Form Submission';
      
      $message = wordwrap($message_body, 70);
      $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; 
      $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
      $headers .= "From: " . $varemail . "\r\n";
      $subject = 'Volunteer Form Submission';
      $to = 'mygmail@gmail.com';
      $result = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
      //THIS RETURNS "1"
      print $result;
      
      //IF ALL DATA IS CORRECT MAKE SURE EMAIL WAS SENT
      if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
        $success = "Message sent. Thank you contacting us! We will reply as soon as possible.";
        $varfname = $varlname = $varemail = $varphone = $varposition = "";
      } else {
        $success = "Something went wrong!";
      }
    }
  }

//STRIP UNWANTED CHARACTERS FROM VARIABLES
function test_input($data) {
  $data = trim($data);
  $data = stripslashes($data);
  $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
  return $data;
}
?>

 

Here is the HTML:

    <div class="row regformrow">
      <div class="coffee-span-12 regformcolumn">
        <div class="subgrid regformsubgrid">
          <div class="row regformsubgridheaderrow">
            <div class="coffee-span-12 regformsubgridheadercolumn">
              <h4 class="regformsubgridheadertitle">Volunteer Form</h4>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="row regformsubgridrow">
            <form class="form-container regformsubgridformcontainer" action=<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> method="post">
              <div class="coffee-span-4 coffee-972-span-6 coffee-458-span-12 regformsubgridcolumn1">
                <div class="container regformsubgridcontainer1">
                  <label class="label form-label-all"><span style="font-style:italic;color:#FF5454;">* Required Fields</span></label></br>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="fname" name="varfname" type="text" tabindex="1" placeholder="First Name" value="<?= $varfname; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varfnameErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="lname" name="varlname" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Last Name" value="<?= $varlname; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varlnameErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="email" name="varemail" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Email Address" value="<?= $varemail; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varemailErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="phone" name="varphone" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Telephone Number" value="<?= $varphone; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varphoneErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <select class="select selectbox" name="varposition" id="varposition" tabindex="5"><option value="">Select one...</option><option value="Chaperone">Chaperone</option><option value="Class Monitor">Class Monitor</option><option value="Parking Attendant">Parking Attendant</option><option value="Party Coordinator">Party Coordinator</option><option value="Teacher Aid">Teacher Aid</option></select><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varpositionErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="test" name="test" type="text" tabindex="6" placeholder="If you are human, leave this field blank" value="">
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <button type="submit" class="button-submit-1" name="submit" tabindex="7" data-submit="...Sendng">Submit</button>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
  				  <div class="success"><?= $success; ?></div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            </form>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by mike3075

Hi   We have a nicely working smtp contact form, however the form redirects to the contact.php file as default I presume, when we want it to go to a thank you page. Can you [please take a look at the code below and clarify where I need to put the thank you page URL;   $redirect_url = "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; //Redirect URL after submit the form

$mail->From = $mail->Username;    //Default From email same as smtp user
$mail->FromName = "Mobile website";

$mail->AddAddress("essexcarrentals@yahoo.co.uk", "Mobile Website"); //Email address where you wish to receive/collect those emails.

$mail->WordWrap = 50;                                 // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->IsHTML(true);                                  // set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = $_POST['Enquiry'];
$message = "Name: ".$_POST['name']." \r\n <br>Email Address: ".$_POST['email']." \r\n <br> Phone: ".$_POST['phone']." \r\n <br> Vehicle: ".$_POST['select']." \r\n <br> Dates: ".$_POST['dates'];
$mail->Body    = $message;

if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";
header("Location: $redirect_url");
}
?>   I have tried replacing the http:// but this returns a page underfined error on submission?   We appreciate your help on this one guys :0)   Ash   ---

Hi,

I have a contact for which I wish to send to multiple recipients as a BCC, but I cannot work it out. I can add them as recipients, but they are not hidden in the email.

This is what I have:


if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$year=$_POST['year'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$subject = 'Hello Admin !';
$message="Name : $name <br> Email : $email <br> Phone : $phone <br> Year : $year";
$recipients ="me@me.com, me2@me2.com";

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$subject="New contact details";
$headers .= 'From: TEST<test@test.com>' . "\r\n";
mail($recipients ,$subject,$message,$headers);
header("Location: thankyou.php");


Any ideas what I should do?

Thanks

I am trying to add my email to a contact form to where a customer would fill in a few boxes and hit send and i would receive.  Where would i find the code to enter it?  thanks, w

Hello,

I'm new to PHP but i am quite good with javascript programming etc so i'm just getting to terms with using PHP.  I've made a contact form with an IF statement that will display confirmation within my page upon post. (I'm not even sure if this logic is right however).  The form seems to submit but doesn't show the confirmation message and doesn't send an email to my webserver.
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<h2 class="kontaktaoss">&nbsp;KONTAKTA OSS</h2>


<?php
if ($_POST["email"]<>'') {
$ToEmail = 'michel@hissorulltrappskonsulter.se';
$EmailSubject = 'Webform Hissorulltrapp';
$mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Comment: ".nl2br($_POST["comment"])."";
mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
?>
Your message has been sent
<?php
} else {
?>


<form name="form" id="form" action="KontaktaOss.php" method="post">

<select name="sDepartment" onchange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)" class="selectDepartment">
<option>Hiss och rulltrappstjänster</option>
<option>Teknisk support</option>
</select>

<input type="text" name="subject" id="name" class="txtDepartment" />


<textarea name="tComments" id="comment" class="txtComments"></textarea>

<input type="text" name="tEmail" id="email" class="txtEmail" />
<input type="image" src="images/submit.png" class="bSubmit" value="send" />
<input type="image" src="images/reset.png" class="bReset" />
</form>
<?php
};
?>
<p class="kontaktaossdetails"><b>Information:</b><br />
Stationsvägen 4C<br />
Täby 187 30 <br />
Telefon: 0702698981<br />
bjorn@hissotrulltrappskonsulter.se<br />
michel@hissorulltrappskonsulter.se<br />

<b>Teknisk Support:</b><br />
joel@hissorulltrappskonsulter.se</p>

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<div id="elem3" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p> Björn har under sin anställning utvecklat en gedigen kompetens inom sitt arbetsområde. Han har i sin roll visat stort engagemang för sina arbetsuppgifter.. -<em> Harry Plogbäck, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem4" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Behovet av kvalitetskontroller erinrar sig från värdet av en kontrollverksamhet
jämtemot de som utför reparationer och service. Det skapar även möjligheten... -<em> Björn Anderson, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem5" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Angående utförandet av arton kvalitetskontroller samt rådgivning för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter. “Rulltrappskonsulterna har hjälpt mig att få fram en rättvis bild... -<em> Stefan Fransson, Teknisk förvaltare för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter AB</em></p></div>

<div id="elem6" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p> Björn har under sin anställning utvecklat en gedigen kompetens inom sitt arbetsområde. Han har i sin roll visat stort engagemang för sina arbetsuppgifter.. -<em> Harry Plogbäck, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem7" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Behovet av kvalitetskontroller erinrar sig från värdet av en kontrollverksamhet
jämtemot de som utför reparationer och service. Det skapar även möjligheten... -<em> Björn Anderson, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem8" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Angående utförandet av arton kvalitetskontroller samt rådgivning för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter. “Rulltrappskonsulterna har hjälpt mig att få fram en rättvis bild... -<em> Stefan Fransson, Teknisk förvaltare för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter AB</em></p></div>

<div id="elem9" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p> Björn har under sin anställning utvecklat en gedigen kompetens inom sitt arbetsområde. Han har i sin roll visat stort engagemang för sina arbetsuppgifter.. -<em> Harry Plogbäck, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem10" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Behovet av kvalitetskontroller erinrar sig från värdet av en kontrollverksamhet
jämtemot de som utför reparationer och service. Det skapar även möjligheten... -<em> Björn Anderson, Teknisk förvaltningschef - AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik</em></p></div>

<div id="elem11" class="toBeFaded tagline"><p>Angående utförandet av arton kvalitetskontroller samt rådgivning för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter. “Rulltrappskonsulterna har hjälpt mig att få fram en rättvis bild... -<em> Stefan Fransson, Teknisk förvaltare för PUB, Atrium Fastigheter AB</em></p></div>


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Just looking for some advice really, i'm sure it's something very simple!

Thank you.