So im making a contact form using PHP, Javascript and my PHP my file to send the message for it to function is residing in my server along side my index file with <script> calling out the php file but it is not working. Ive attached my index and php file.

In what way is it "not working"? Have you tried debugging it?

No I havent tried that how do you do that? What I mean is it doenst send the message to its respective mail recipient in the .php file.

This post has been edited by Carlos S.: Oct 22 2014, 01:55 PM

Sure, it doesn't work. But you have to work out why, and the quickest way to do this is not just to stare at the program, wondering what the problem is, nor is it to post a copy of the program here and hope that someone else will stare at it until they see the problem. You have to use "diagnostics" -- usually this just means using echo to see what variables hold. If you look at the program and think "This variable $msg contains the message", then you CHECK. echo "<p>message /$msg/</p>"; will show you whether it really does hold what you think it does. (I am not trying to be unhelpful, but I think it is quite counterproductive for other people to look at your program and try to debug it in their heads.)

What are you talking about I didnt say "im staring at the program", or "someone to work it out for me" I posted it so people could know what im looking at....your coming off a little to strong man its best if you hadnt replied to this. All im asking for is help I though this is what this website was about..sorry.

This post has been edited by Carlos S.: Oct 22 2014, 03:08 PM

All you have to do is tell me is the what I could do...Im not saying to solve it for me this is all you had to say: "You have to use "diagnostics" -- usually this just means using echo to see what variables hold. If you look at the program and think "This variable $msg contains the message", then you CHECK. echo "<p>message /$msg/</p>"; will show you whether it really does hold what you think it does."

That file seems to contain both ASP(?) and PHP. Not even sure if you can run both these script languages in the same file, in any case doing so seems like an unnecessary complication.

The file also contains a form's start- and end tags, but no actual form elements (like text fields). Are the latter supposed to be inserted with ASP, or javascript?

Sorry I put the wrong files in look at these. and thanks for your help and not being a douche like some people ^.

That's just some PHP code. Still no HTML form...

here it is.

So im guessing that I am working with asp and PHP files together and yeah im assuming they dont work together.....Is it possible to make them work together?

That one is lacking form fields, just like the one in your first post.


I don't think it's possible, and why complicate it like that in the first place? I'd stick with either PHP or ASP, and use static HTML for the form itself.

It doesn't help to have different systems together -- and means you need to be an expert in all but one of them, at least.

Sorry, I didn't look at your submitted file originally, because you didn't ask a specific question. But if you want to get the php mail submission script working, the way to test it is with a plain form, so that all output from the mail script appears directly in your browser. Then you stick in some echo "...diagnostic..." lines to work out what is happening.

Did you really write all this yourself? Or which bits did you write yourself? Is there a particular reason to use ajax to submit the mail?

You mean HTML & PHP or HTML & ASP?

No I didnt write all myself I only wrote the HTML....My company that I work for wants a lightbox contact form in there website...Is there another way to add this lightbox contact form?....and what do your mean a plain form to test it?

What do you mean by "form fields"?

Im not sure what theses mean:

<%@ Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="main.Master.vb" Inherits="IOG.Site1" %>

<%@ Page Title="" Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" MasterPageFile="~/main.Master" CodeBehind="Contact.aspx.vb" Inherits="IOG.Contact" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server">

In order for me to change them from .aspx files to HTML files what do need to take out?

Yes. Personally I'd use HTML and PHP, but I don't know how your web site and server is configured. Maybe you have to use ASP, in which case you might need to find an ASP form script.


Afraid I have no idea what that is.


Probably Brian meant using just HTML for the actual form (no javascript).


A contact form usually contains a few textfields and a TEXTAREA to type in, and a submit button to submit the form with.


Looks like ASP code. You might simply remove it, but why did this code get in there in the first place?

Of couse it's simpler to use the same system everywhere, but if an ASP generated page makes a standard call to a php-generated page, it should all work perfectly. It's possible that the jquery ajax call might use a nonstandard calling convention, but unlikely. I guess this is some sort of corporate page, so no doubt the asp stuff is required by management, and you can't remove it. It is not meaningful to talk about "converting asp to html".



I imagine the "lightbox" is one of those horrible things that means you can't read the thing you are commenting on. Company types love them, because they get an illusion of power.
Yes, of course you have to test the bits separately. Write a standard html form to call the mail script, and see if it works. And so on, testing parts until you eliminate all the problems and it works as desired.