I realize this question title is pretty overused, but I couldn't find an answer to my problem. This could be because either I'm not too
good with PHP and I don't understand
the problem, or because I have a different issue, but I thought I would post it and see if somebody can help me.
I developed a website for a local church in my city and I made
the site on my computer, put it onto my website as a sub directory and tested it all. It worked great. One of
the things
the client wanted was there to be an email form that can send emails. I made it and all was
good.
I then uploaded it onto
the church server and thought it went
good too. But then we decided to try
the email form out, and for some reason it didn't work.
I made
the email form by having
the user select a recipient (pastor, office manager, etc.) with a radio button, and that would change
the action of
the email form. I just did something like this:
if (recipent == "pastor") {
document.forms[0].action = "../scripts/php/pastor_contact.php";
} else if (recipent == "pastoralAssist") {
document.forms[0].action = "../scripts/php/pastoral_assist_contact.php";
} else if (recipent == "famMinistry") {
document.forms[0].action = "../scripts/php/sacra_assist_contact.php";
} else if (recipent == "sacraAssist") {
document.forms[0].action = "../scripts/php/fam_ministry_contact.php";
}
I know this isn't
the cleanest, but it works great.
The php files then, all look very similar to this (just a different email)"
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent="From: $name \n Email: $email \n Phone Number: $phone \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "
[email protected]";
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$mailheader = "$subject \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("There seems to be an error with this form. Sorry about
the inconveince. We are working to get this fixed.");
header('Location: ../../quickylinks/message_sent.html') ;
?>
What this does, briefly, is collect
the information from
the email form, submit it as an email and then redirect
the user to a "Message Sent" page. This works on my server, but not theirs so I believe it's something to do with their server.
You can see their server information here and mine here.
When
the user sends
the message, they get "There seems to be an error with this form. Sorry about
the inconveince. We are working to get this fixed." and
the email doesn't go through, although
the code is
the same on my server and it works fine there.
My initial thought was that PHP wasn't installed on their server (rare, but it does happen). But it was. So then I thought maybe it was installed, but
the "mail" function was disabled. So I tried
the following php code:
<?php
if (function_exists('mail')) {
echo 'mail() is available';
} else {
echo 'mail() has been disabled'; }
?>
And it came back with "mail() is available".
So now I'm stuck and I don't know
the problem could be. As I said, I'm not very
good at PHP yet so if somebody could give a detailed answer, I would be really really thankful!
Thank you so much!
