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    copied!<p>I want to create a email contact form without refreshing the page. so i used jquery for that. Now after submitting the form i want to send successful or error message to the user. Here is my code:</p> <p>index.html</p> <pre><code> &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;HTML5 Contact Form&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="styles.css" &gt; &lt;script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script&gt; $(document).ready(function(){ $('#mycontactform').submit(function(e){ e.preventDefault(); $.post("contact.php", $(this).serialize(), function(response) { $('#success').html(response); //$('#success').hide('slow'); }); }); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form id="mycontactform" class="contact_form" action="" method="post" name="contact_form"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Contact Us&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;span class="required_notification"&gt;* Denotes Required Field&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="John Doe" required /&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="john_doe@example.com" required /&gt; &lt;span class="form_hint"&gt;Proper format "name@something.com"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;label for="message"&gt;Message:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" id="message" cols="40" rows="6" required &gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;button class="submit" id="submit" style="cursor:pointer" type="submit"&gt;Submit Form&lt;/button&gt; &lt;div id="success" style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>contact.php</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $field_name = $_POST['name']; $field_email = $_POST['email']; $field_message = $_POST['message']; $mail_to = 'babloopuneeth@gmail.com'; $subject = 'Message from a site visitor '.$field_name; $body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n"; $body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n"; $body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message; $headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n"; $headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n"; $mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers); if ($mail_status) { echo "Your email was sent!"; } else { echo "Your email was not sent!"; } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now after submitting the form, if the mail was sent successfully i want if statement of php to be displayed if mail was not sent i wand else statment to be executed. But Im not getting successful or error messages after submitting the form nor im recieving any mail? Where am i going wrong? And is my jquery code correct to submit the form without refreshing the page? Plz someone help me</p>
 

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