cannot POST /html/send_form_email.php

Question

Having trouble figuring out how to make this work. Can anyone help?

<form class="contact-form" name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php">

        <h1>Contact and Custom Order</h1>

        <label for="name">Name:</label>
        <input type="text" name="name">
        <label for="email">Email:</label>
        <input type="email" name="email">
        <label for="telephone">Phone Number:</label>
        <input type="tel" name="telephone">
        <label for="board_spec">Board Specifications:</label>
        <textarea name="board_spec"></textarea>
        <label for="info">Additional Comments:</label>
        <textarea name="info"></textarea>

        <button type="submit" value="Submit">Send</button>
    </form>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
 
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "aaronblac@gmail.com";
    $email_subject = "Contact from site";
 
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
 
 
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['info']) ||
        !isset($_POST['board_spec'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
    }
 
     
 
    
    $name = $_POST['name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $info = $_POST['info']; // required
    $board_spec = $_POST['board_spec']; // not required
 
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
 
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
 
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
 
  if(strlen($info) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
 
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
 
     
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
 
     
 
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($info)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Board Spec: ".clean_string($board_spec)."\n";
 
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>
 
<!-- include your own success html here -->
 
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
 
<?php
 
}
?>

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cannot POST /html/send_form_email.php