Question

I have a simple php form for contact purposes. However, it won’t send the email or go to the correct page after submit. It redirects to the mail.php instead.

My contact form named contact.php is as follows:

 <form id="contact-form" action="mail.php" method="POST">
    <fieldset>

        <label><span class="text-form">Your Name:</span> <input type="text" name="name"></label>
        <label><span class="text-form">Your Email:</span><input type="text" name="email"></label>
        <label><span class="text-form">Your Contact No:</span><input type="text" name="contact"></label>
        <div class="wrapper">
            <div class="text-form">Your Message:</div>
            <textarea name="message" rows="6" cols="25"></textarea><br />
            <div class="clear">
        </div>
        <div class="buttons">
        <a class="button" href="#"><input class="button" type="submit" value="Send"></a>
        <a class="button" href="#"><input class="button" type="reset" value="Clear"></a>
        </div>

    </fieldset>
</form>

And the php code named mail.php is as follows:

    <?php
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    &contact = $_POST['contact'];
    $formcontent="From: $name \n Message: $message";
    $recipient = "[e-mail]";
    $subject = "Contact form message";
    $mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
    mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
    header("Location:contact.php");
    ?>

What am i doing wrong. It just wont send the message to email or redirect to the correct page??

Answer 1

Your syntax is ever so slightly wrong. &contact on line 5 should be $contact. I assume you’re on a production server, so error reporting would be disabled and you wouldn’t get any warnings.