Can you correct this html code / php for my Contact Form?

Question

I need help with my Contact Form coding. I am working on a Dreamweaver CS6 website. Could you take a look at my code and see what is wrong with it? I think, the html is fully correct. There is an error on php coding.

Html:

  <form action="assets/styles/contact_form.php" method="post" class="ui-form form-contacts">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-xs-12">
          <h2 class="ui-title-block">Get In Touch</h2>
          <div class="ui-subtitle-block">send us a message</div>
          <div class="border-color border-color_center"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-1">
          <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" placeholder="NAME" name="author" required class="form-control">
          </div>
          <div class="input-group">
            <input type="email" name="email" required placeholder="EMAIL" class="form-control">
          </div>
          <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" name="subject" placeholder="SUBJECT" class="form-control">
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-sm-6">
          <div class="input-group">
            <textarea id="comment-text" name="comment" placeholder="COMMENT" required rows="9" class="form-control"></textarea>
          </div>
          <div class="text-right">
            <button class="btn">SEND<i class="icon fa fa-angle-double-right"></i> </button>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </form>

Php:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['user_name'])){
$author         = $_POST['user_name'];
$email      = $_POST['user_email'];
$to         = 'john@mybusiness.ca';
$subject    = $_POST['message_subject'];
$comment    = $_POST['message_content'];
$headers    = 'From: '. $author .' <'.$email.'>';

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
    echo 'success';
}
else{
    echo 'fail';
}
}
?>

Wait..... Have you ever made a form before?. Please try to look at the name attribute. They don't match with post keys. $_POST["user_name"] should be $_POST["author"];, — Utkarsh Dixit, Dec 25 '15 at 17:52
Because I tested out the contact form by sending an email to myself through the contact form and I didn't receive an email. — SHE, Dec 25 '15 at 17:54
@SHE According to me your php code wouldn't have outputted any thing not even "fail" — Utkarsh Dixit, Dec 25 '15 at 17:55

Utkarsh Dixit · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-25T18:03:33.507

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It's just a common thing. The name attribute you are using in your html code is not been used to get the value using post associative array. The value of input submitted by the from can only be extracted through a unique id or text. This is for what name attribute is used. Now to get the value we can use $_POST associative array and point to our input value by giving it the name attribute that we gave it in the previous page(html form). I hope i made my point clear. If you need some more assistant try to go to this link http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php. Try this code

<?php
if(isset($_POST['author'])){
$author         = $_POST['author'];
$email      = $_POST['email'];
$to         = 'john@mybusiness.ca';
$subject    = $_POST['subject'];
$comment    = $_POST['comment'];
$headers    = 'From: '. $author .' <'.$email.'>';

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
    echo 'success';
}
else{
    echo 'fail';
}
}
?>

Hope this helps you

edited Dec 25 '15 at 18:03

answered Dec 25 '15 at 17:54

Utkarsh Dixit

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it would help everyone if you were to explain exactly "why" their code failed. – Funk Forty Niner Dec 25 '15 at 17:57
@Fred-ii- Is this Ok – Utkarsh Dixit Dec 25 '15 at 18:03
@SHE Did you got any output?. Any output, i think you would have get "fail". AM i right – Utkarsh Dixit Dec 25 '15 at 18:17
@ShE I am glad that i helped. To get your mail go into inbox, you have to correctly setup your SMTP protocols and all. Try to read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371/how-do-you-make-sure-email-you-send-programmatically-is-not-automatically-marked – Utkarsh Dixit Dec 25 '15 at 18:20
@SHE please mark this answer as correct. – Utkarsh Dixit Dec 25 '15 at 18:21
Thanks it works now. It is coming in my Inbox now. Thank you for your help. – SHE Dec 25 '15 at 18:21

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