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Charles Moeller
776 PointsSending a contact form
My website works perfectly after completing the Shirts For Mike php shopping website. My question now is how do I know if the contact form actually works? Iv'e tried changing the shirts for mike email to my own and sending it. There was no error but it didnt appear on my inbox.
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI'm assuming that this is running on a local web server. Meaning you're using something like XAMPP, MAMP, WAMP, etc to run the PHP code on your computer, and this isn't live on the internet somewhere?
If that's the case, there are extra steps to be taken to get a website that is running on a local server to be able to send emails.
The stack overflow question below should provide that answer for you.
Charles Moeller
776 Pointsthanks this did help a lot and made sense. When I put this live on the internet and not off a local server do you think I would have to alter the code again to send the form?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI don't know enough about the actual details of the code in action to answer that. Likely it should work without changing anything, but I'm not sure.