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PHP

Posted by ricardo leiva sikic
ricardo leiva sikic
1,463 Points

php form

i have a problem with my contact form on my website,

the contact form send me blank emails i dont know why

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Is this local or live?

ricardo leiva sikic
ricardo leiva sikic
1,463 Points

live.

1 Answer

Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points
Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points

Hi Ricardo - posting the form HTML and the PHP that is receiving the form data and constructing the email would help in debugging directly. Common issues for this kind of scenario include: Not accepting the $_POST data in your PHP script, Not referencing the $_POST data - eg, referencing a field such as $email_address instead of $_POST['email_address'], Not setting up the mail properly - eg. omitting the subject or content strings.

Steps in debugging that may help include dumping all posted data to the output ( var_dump() or print_r() ), echoing the individual mail fields.

Hope this helps you with the issue.