contact form issues with LAMP installed on Ubuntu 11.10

krisdeniseriley · December 24, 2011, 11:28:02 AM

So I am a networking student that is working with designing and building web pages. I installed LAMP on a home PC so that I can have a webserver at home. So I am somewhat new to server side things. So I am building a website and found the great idea of doing a contact form instead of using the "mailto" idea. So I found a site that had a good and easy way to install a contact form with a contact_form.html & contact.php files. So I put them in my /var/www/ folder along with all of my other website material. When I put localhost into the URL and the site comes up, I click on the email contact link and the contact_form.html page comes up. I fill in the info and click on send, but it comes up with Message Failed error. I am new to this somewhat and would like someone to look through the code from both files. When I installed LAMP, I was under the assumption that it was PHP compatable when I have a .php file in the /var/www/ folder. Any info would be great!

Kris

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<?php

$field_name = $_POST['cf_name'];

$field_email = $_POST['cf_email'];

$field_message = $_POST['cf_message'];



$mail_to = 'hornerkris@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;



$headers = 'From: '.$cf_email."\r\n";

$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$cf_email."\r\n";



$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);



if ($mail_status) { ?>

	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

		alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');

		window.location = 'contact_page.html';

	</script>

<?php

}

else { ?>

	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

		alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to hornerkris@gmail.com');

		window.location = 'contact_page.html';

	</script>

<?php

}

?>

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Contact Form</title>

</head>



<body>

<form action="contact.php" method="post">

	Your name<br>

    <input type="text" name="cf_name"><br>

	Your e-mail<br>

    <input type="text" name="cf_email"><br>

	Message<br>

    <textarea name="cf_message" Rows=20 Cols=100></textarea><br>

	<input type="submit" value="Send">

	<input type="reset" value="Clear">

</form>

</body>

</html>

contact form issues with LAMP installed on Ubuntu 11.10

krisdeniseriley