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Posted by Logan Connor
Logan Connor
3,023 Points

Emerson Contact Form Stuck On Refresh When Submit Is Clicked

I have completed Mr. Paulk's course in Building Websites With PHP and am having difficulty with the form sending to a real website. I am hosting the page and have my email as the email for the data to be sent.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I thought it was my personal code that I wrote while following Mr. Paulk, so I grabbed his code from a fork and the same problem is occurring.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

x x
x x
511 Points

On two servers I tried this project I got following error after sending contact form:

Slim Application Error
The application could not run because of the following error:

Details

Type: ErrorException
Code: 2
Message: proc_open() has been disabled for security reasons

Looks like this function is blocked on cheaper hosting. Maybe try running script from http://php.net/manual/en/function.proc-open.php to check if this function works ok on your server?

2 Answers

Logan Connor
Logan Connor
3,023 Points

After reviewing some things on SwiftMailer I changed 

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

to

$transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -t');

Here is a note about using -t: If you run sendmail in "-t" mode you will get no feedback as to whether or not sending has succeeded. Use "-bs" unless you have a reason not to.

http://swiftmailer.org/docs/sending.html

I doubt this is the best way... but it does work!

Logan Connor
Logan Connor
3,023 Points
Logan Connor
Logan Connor
3,023 Points

Will look into and check back. I have an account with WebhostingForStudents... the one Treehouse suggests.

Logan Connor
Logan Connor
3,023 Points

Seems to be working. With the example code from the website you provided.