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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:41:17+00:00

I am trying to send an email message with data collected from an html

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I am trying to send an email message with data collected from an html form.

Here is the form:

<form action="estimate.php" action="post">
    <fieldset>
        <input type="text" name="name" value="FULL NAME" onfocus="if (this.value=='FULL NAME') this.value='';"/>
        <input type="text" name="phone" value="PHONE NUMBER" onfocus="if (this.value=='PHONE NUMBER') this.value='';"/>
        <input type="text" name="email" value="EMAIL" onfocus="if (this.value=='EMAIL') this.value='';"/>
        <input type="text" name="date" value="MOVE DATE" onfocus="if (this.value=='MOVE DATE') this.value='';"/>
        <input type="text" name="origin" value="ORIGINATING ADDRESS" onfocus="if (this.value=='ORIGINATING ADDRESS') this.value='';"/>
        <input type="text" name="destination" value="DESTINATION ADDRESS" onfocus="if (this.value=='DESTINATION ADDRESS') this.value='';"/>
        <select name="move-type">
            <option value="" selected="selected">TYPE OF MOVE</option>
            <option value="Private">Private</option>
            <option value="Commercial">Commercial</option>
        </select>
        <input id="quoteSubmit" type="image" src="_images/btn_submit.png" alt="" onmouseover="javascript:this.src='_images/btn_submit-over.png'" onmouseout="javascript:this.src='_images/btn_submit.png'"/>
    </fieldset>
</form>

Here is the PHP (which I got some help on in an earlier question posting):

<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Email Confirmation Page</h2>
<p>This is to prove that something is showing up.</p>
<?php # sends contents of  Free Estimate form

if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
$errors = array();

// Check for empty fields

$checkArray = array('name', 'email', 'date', 'origin', 'destination');
foreach($checkArray as $check) {
    if (empty($_POST[$check])) {
        $errors[] = 'Please enter your '.$check;
    } 
}

if (empty($errors)) { // everything is okay

$to = "my@email.com";

    $body = "The following Free Estimate Request has been submitted:\n

        Submitted by: {$_POST['name']}\r
        E-mail: {$_POST['email']}\r
        Phone: {$_POST['phone']}\r
        Move date {$_POST['date']}\r
        Moving from: {$_POST['origin']}\r
        Moving to: {$_POST['destination']}\r
        Move type: {$_POST['move-type']}\r;

    ";

    mail ($to, 'Free Estimate Request', $body, 'From:  '.$from);      

    // end email

} else {    
    echo '<h2>Error!</h2>
    <p class="errors">The following error(s) occurred:<br />';
    foreach ($errors as $msg) {
        echo " - $msg<br />\n";
    }
    echo '</p><p>Please go back and try again.</p><p><br /></p>';
}
};

?>
</body>
</html>

The estimate.php page shows up fine and no errors are generated, but I don’t get any emails.

Not sure what I am missing here.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try sending with a simple body:

    $body = "The following Free Estimate Request has been submitted:\n";

    See if it sends then.

    also try a basic email:

    mail ($to, 'Free Estimate Request', 'This is my body', 'From:  '.$from);

    Also try changing different email address and check your junk folders.

    And ofcourse make sure there is an SMTP server running

    UPDATE:

    You may also want to:

    echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

    Add this before your isset($_POST['submitted']); Then you can check to see if it even getting that far, and you can check your post vars

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