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    <p>I'm trying to create a contactform which is placed under a sticky button on the right hand side.</p> <p>It seems my form isn't submitting at all. I tried to put the code on seperate files using <code>action="contactus.php"</code> without any result. I also tried it on the same page, but still no luck. Can someone give me advise on this one please?</p> <p>PHP in the HEAD-section:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php define("EMAIL", "my@email.com"); if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { include('validate.class.php'); //assign post data to variables $name = trim(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name'])); $email = trim(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email'])); $message = trim(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['message'])); //start validating our form $v = new validate(); $v-&gt;validateStr($name, "name", 3, 75); $v-&gt;validateEmail($email, "email"); $v-&gt;validateStr($message, "message", 5, 1000); if(!$v-&gt;hasErrors()) { $header = "From: $email\n" . "Reply-To: $email\n"; $subject = "Contact Form Subject"; $email_to = EMAIL; $emailMessage = "Name: " . $name . "\n"; $emailMessage .= "Email: " . $email . "\n\n"; $emailMessage .= $message; //use php's mail function to send the email @mail($email_to, $subject, $emailMessage, $header ); //grab the current url, append ?sent=yes to it and then redirect to that url $url = "http". ((!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "s" : "") . "://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; header('Location: '.$url."?sent=yes"); } else { //set the number of errors message $message_text = $v-&gt;errorNumMessage(); //store the errors list in a variable $errors = $v-&gt;displayErrors(); //get the individual error messages $nameErr = $v-&gt;getError("name"); $emailErr = $v-&gt;getError("email"); $messageErr = $v-&gt;getError("message"); }//end error check }// end isset ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Contact form in HTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="slide-out-div"&gt; &lt;a class="handle"&gt;Content&lt;/a&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Leave your details and we will get back to you asap!&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;form id="contact_form" method="post" action=""&gt; Name &lt;br /&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="name" required&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Email &lt;br /&gt;&lt;input type="email" name="email" required&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Message &lt;br /&gt;&lt;textarea name="message" class="textarea" cols="30" rows="5" required&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Submit" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>The validate.class.php file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php class validate { // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // paramaters // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * Array to hold the errors * * @access public * @var array */ public $errors = array(); // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // validation methods // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * Validates a string * * @access public * @param $postVal - the value of the $_POST request * @param $postName - the name of the form element being validated * @param $min - minimum string length * @param $max - maximum string length * @return void */ public function validateStr($postVal, $postName, $min = 5, $max = 500) { if(strlen($postVal) &lt; intval($min)) { $this-&gt;setError($postName, ucfirst($postName)." must be at least {$min} characters long."); } else if(strlen($postVal) &gt; intval($max)) { $this-&gt;setError($postName, ucfirst($postName)." must be less than {$max} characters long."); } }// end validateStr /** * Validates an email address * * @access public * @param $emailVal - the value of the $_POST request * @param $emailName - the name of the email form element being validated * @return void */ public function validateEmail($emailVal, $emailName) { if(strlen($emailVal) &lt;= 0) { $this-&gt;setError($emailName, "Please enter an Email Address"); } else if (!preg_match('/^[^0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[@][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[.][a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/', $emailVal)) { $this-&gt;setError($emailName, "Please enter a Valid Email Address"); } }// end validateEmail // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // error handling methods // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * sets an error message for a form element * * @access private * @param string $element - name of the form element * @param string $message - error message to be displayed * @return void */ private function setError($element, $message) { $this-&gt;errors[$element] = $message; }// end logError /** * returns the error of a single form element * * @access public * @param string $elementName - name of the form element * @return string */ public function getError($elementName) { if($this-&gt;errors[$elementName]) { return $this-&gt;errors[$elementName]; } else { return false; } }// end getError /** * displays the errors as an html un-ordered list * * @access public * @return string: A html list of the forms errors */ public function displayErrors() { $errorsList = "&lt;ul class=\"errors\"&gt;\n"; foreach($this-&gt;errors as $value) { $errorsList .= "&lt;li&gt;". $value . "&lt;/li&gt;\n"; } $errorsList .= "&lt;/ul&gt;\n"; return $errorsList; }// end displayErrors /** * returns whether the form has errors * * @access public * @return boolean */ public function hasErrors() { if(count($this-&gt;errors) &gt; 0) { return true; } else { return false; } }// end hasErrors /** * returns a string stating how many errors there were * * @access public * @return void */ public function errorNumMessage() { if(count($this-&gt;errors) &gt; 1) { $message = "There were " . count($this-&gt;errors) . " errors sending your message!\n"; } else { $message = "There was an error sending your message!\n"; } return $message; }// end hasErrors }// end class ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I see what the POST-data is in FireBug I see the actual data which I filled in. Is it possible this isn't working because I'm on LocalHost?</p> <p>Kind regards</p> <p>Bjorn</p>
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    1. COrelated http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15267423/php-send-mail-in-localhost
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    2. CODone any basic debugging yourself? Slap some echo statements into various places to see if execution actually occurs? Removed the `@` from mail() and checked the return value? You should **NEVER** use `@` in code, especially while debugging. It's the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "lalalala can't hear you".
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    3. COI did some proper research. Otherwise I wouldn't have come up with the POST-data of Firebug. I also just could have pasted my coded over here. I never made a contact form before myself. So I would like to get some advice, instead of your comment. Not everybody is the best developer in the world.
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