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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Sending Our Email

Posted by William Gertler
William Gertler
12,061 Points

Email not sending!

When I got to the var_dump stage my first problem was that the post data did not dump to screen it appeared to be dumping in the web address bar, now I have completed and followed all the remaining steps it doesn't redirect.

Link to workspace: https://teamtreehouse.com/workspaces/13085762

CODE

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

//$log = new Monolog\Logger('name');
//$log->pushHandler(new Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler('app.txt', Monolog\Logger::WARNING));
//$log->addWarning('Oh Noes.');

$app = new \Slim\Slim( array(
  'view' => new \Slim\Views\Twig()
));

$view = $app->view();
$view->parserOptions = array(
    'debug' => true
);
$view->parserExtensions = array(
    new \Slim\Views\TwigExtension(),
);

$app->get('/', function() use($app){
  $app->render('about.twig');
})->name('home');

$app->get('/contact', function() use($app){
  $app->render('contact.twig');
})->name('contact');

$app->post('/contact', function() use($app){
  $name = $app->request->post('name');
  $email = $app->request->post('email');
  $msg = $app->request->post('msg');

  if(!empty($name) && !empty($email) && !empty($msg)) {
    $cleanName = filter_var($name, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
    $cleanEmail = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
    $cleanMsg = filter_var($msg, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
  } else {
    //message the user that there was a problem
    $app->redirect('/contact');
  }

  $transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');
  $mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

  $message = \Swift_Message::newInstance();
  $message->setSubject('Email From Our Website');
  $message->setFrom(array(
     $cleanEmail => $cleanName
  ));
  $message->setTo(array('treehouse@localhost'));
  $message->setBody($cleanMsg);


});

$app->run();