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PHP

Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points
Posted by Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points

Contact Form Not Working on Live Site

I am currently having issues with my contact form not working on my live site. It works fine locally, but does not work on my server. I am using PHP with PHPmailer, then Postmark to take care of sending the emails, and a Web Hosting For Students custom email address. I am getting an error that says, in part, "Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting" Here is my code:

<?php
   if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
     $name = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST, "name", FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));
     $email = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST, "email", FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL));
     $message = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST, "message", FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS));

     if ($name == "" || $email == "" || $message == "") {
       $error_message = "Please fill out all the required fields: Name, Email, and Message";
     }
     if (!isset($error_message) && $_POST["address"] != "") {
       $error_message = "Bad form input";
      }
      require("../includes/phpmailer/PHPMailer-master/class.phpmailer.php");
      require("../includes/phpmailer/PHPMailer-master/class.smtp.php");

      $mail = new PHPMailer();

      if (!isset($error_message) && !$mail->ValidateAddress($email)) {
        $error_message = "Invalid Email Address";
      }


      if (!isset($error_message)) {


      $email_body = "";
      $email_body .= $message . "\n" . " from " . $email;
      $mail->SMTPDebug = 3;
      $mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
      $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
      $mail->Host = 'smtp.postmarkapp.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
      $mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to
      $mail->Username = 'Server API Token';                 // SMTP username
      $mail->Password = 'Server API Token';                           // SMTP password
      $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                           // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted

      $mail->setFrom(custom email address, $name);
      $mail->addAddress(gmail email address, 'Aaron Harpt');
      $mail->isHTML(false);
      $mail->Subject = 'Comment on Website from ' . $name;
      $mail->Body = $email_body;
      if ($mail->send()) {
        header("location:index.php?status=thanks");
        exit;
      }
        $error_message = 'Message could not be sent.';
        $error_message .= 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    }
   }