Contact form Error when submit

Question

Hi guys i'm having a issue i hope you guys can help with, i'm typing in all the fields and then upon pressing submit i'm getting just "Error!" on my screen.

Please see the code:

HTML

<h2 class="formhead">Contact Form</h2>
<br>
  <form class="form" action="mail.php" method="POST">

    <p class="name">
        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="John Doe" />
        <label for="name">Name</label>
    </p>
<br>
    <p class="email">
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="mail@example.com" />
        <label for="email">Email</label>
    </p>
<br>
    <p class="number">
        <input type="text" name="number" id="number" placeholder="0774XXXXXXX" />
        <label for="name">Contact Number</label>
    </p>
<br>
    <p class="web">
        <input type="text" name="web" id="web" placeholder="www.example.co.uk" />
        <label for="name">Website</label>
    </p>
<br>
    <p class="message">
        <textarea name="message" id="message" placeholder="Write something to us" /> </textarea>
    </p>
<br>
    <p class="submit">
        <input type="submit" value="Send"/>
    </p>
  </form>

PHP

<?php $name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$number = $_POST['number'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$website = $_POST['web'];
$formcontent="From: $name \n Contact: $number \n Website: $web \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "enquiries@c(hidden)y.co.uk";
$subject = "Contact Form";
$mailheader = "From: $email ";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You!" . " -" . "<a href='contact.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> Return Home</a>";
?>

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Sam

Answer 1

Your script always reporting 'Error!' because the mail() function always fails. That's because some index you're using in the php file doesn't match to the input names in your form:

Change these:

$website = $_POST['website'];

to:

$website = $_POST['web'];

Or change it in your form.

Also you have to specify a name for the message textarea:

<textarea name="message" id="message" placeholder="Write something to us" />

This may fail again if it can't connect to mailserver. This is probably you're case if The SMTP is Disabled.

Answer 2

As per my comment, here's an example of a better die statement:

<?
$your_function or die("Error! a") // Just replace the letter a with anything. It serves as a simple link to your function that only you know.  so you can go back and check it