I believe that my code is correct, when I remove the isset statement it returns an error as if the fields were not set. I have heard that this may be due to how PHP is configured on the server which may be the case. It seems like the variables aren't being passed from the HTML to the PHP code. If it means anything I have my PHP installed with WebPlatformInstaller and running IIS on windows server 2016
<?php
echo "test";
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
echo "success";
$email_to = "temp@gmail.com";
$email_subject = "Your email subject line";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['message'])) {
died('You must enter your email and a message');
}
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(strlen($message) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The message you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.
";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."
";
$email_message .= "message: ".clean_string($message)."
";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."
".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."
" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->
echo "Thank you for reaching out! I'll be in touch.";
<?php
}
?>`
HTML
<form action="contact.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="email" placeholder="Email" name='email' required>
<input class="btn" type='submit' tabindex="1" value='Send'>
<textarea type='text' name='message' required></textarea>
</form>