Contact Form not working

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
1

Hi all,
i am working on my first kirby based project. it is based on kirby 2.5.10 and the beautiful kompas theme. i tried to build a contact form, but in the end no mail is sent.
the theme contains some styling for forms, obviously without further functionality.
therefore, i tried to follow this: https://gist.github.com/bastianallgeier/c396df7923848912393d
do you have any hints what could be going wrong?
the page can be seen here for the moment: http://vbbsk.de/cms/contact
hoster is hosteurope.
do you need further information?
thank you in advance,
carsten

2

Hi, I think you are missing the action attribute on your element in the template.
Add it like this: action="<?= $page->url()?>

3

hi, thank you for your suggestion!
unfortunately, it did not solve the problem. still, no mail is sent.
as discribed here, the form should work nearly out of the box:
https://www.guenter-duba.at/news/einfaches-kontaktformular-fuer-kirby

i’ll try to paste my actual code of templates/contact.php:

<?php snippet('header') ?>

  <main class="main wrap" role="main">

      <div class="row">
          <div class="col-12">
              <?php echo $page->text()->kirbytext() ?>
          </div>
      </div>

      <div class="row">
          <div class="col-12">
              <form action="<?= $page->url() ?>" method="post" class="form">

                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-6">
                            <label for="name">Ihr Name? <abbr title="required">*</abbr></label>
                            <input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name" />
                        </div>

                        <div class="col-6">
                            <label for="email">Ihre E-Mail-Adresse? <abbr title="required">*</abbr></label>
                            <input type="email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="E-Mail" />
                        </div>
                    </div>

                  <div class="cf"></div>

                  <label for="text">Schildern Sie uns Ihre Anliegen: <abbr title="required">*</abbr></label>
                  <textarea id="text" name="text" required placeholder="Ihre Nachricht" rows="3"></textarea>

                  <div class="cf"></div>
                  <div class="links">
                    <p>Mit einem Klick auf Absenden erklären sich damit einverstanden, dass Ihre Daten zur Bearbeitung Ihres Anliegens verwendet werden. Weitere Informationen und Widerrufshinweise finden Sie in der Datenschutzerklärung.</p>
                  </div>

                  <input class="button-primary" type="submit" name="submit" value="Absenden">

              </form>
          </div>
      </div>

    </div>

  </main>

<?php snippet('footer') ?>
4

Well, but where is the rest of the code? The contact form as such is pretty useless, you need a controller that takes care of dealing with the form input and if everything is correct, actually. send the mail.

5

Can you post your controller’s code too + is it getting called when you submit the form?

6

Does your hosting provider support PHP sendmail? Does it. work if you send an email from the CLI using sendmail?

Simple test example:

echo "Subject: test" | /usr/lib/sendmail -v me@domain.com

Get.the correct path to be used in the line above

which  sendmail

(seems to be /usr/sbin/sendmail on hosteurope, according to the info below)

If you followed the tutorial you mentioned above to the T, you might also want to check these docs on hosteurope:

1 Like
7

i took the code as is from github. just changed mail adresses.
here is the code in site/controllers/contact.php:

<?php

return function($site, $pages, $page) {

  $alert = null;

  if(get('submit')) {

    $data = array(
      'name'  => get('name'),
      'email' => get('email'),
      'text'  => get('text')
    );

    $rules = array(
      'name'  => array('required'),
      'email' => array('required', 'email'),
      'text'  => array('required', 'min' => 3, 'max' => 3000),
    );

    $messages = array(
      'name'  => 'Bitte geben Sie einen Namen ein',
      'email' => 'Bitte geben Sie eine Mailadresse ein',
      'text'  => 'Bitte geben Sie Ihre Nachricht ein'
    );

    // some of the data is invalid
    if($invalid = invalid($data, $rules, $messages)) {
      $alert = $invalid;

    // the data is fine, let's send the email
    } else {

      // create the body from a simple snippet
      $body  = snippet('contactmail', $data, true);

      // build the email
      $email = email(array(
        'to'      => 'post@vbbsk.de',
        'from'    => 'post@vbbsk.de',
        'subject' => 'Neue Nachricht',
        'replyTo' => $data['email'],
        'body'    => $body
      ));

      // try to send it and redirect to the
      // thank you page if it worked
      if($email->send()) {
        go('contact/thank-you');
      // add the error to the alert list if it failed
      } else {
        $alert = array($email->error());
      }

    }

  }

  return compact('alert');

};
8

BTW. Do you get any error messages?

Is debugging on?

Have you tried what. I suggested above?

Do you get the thank-you page? On. your site it seems that the form itself doesn’t really work because I don’t get any error messages and the validators do not work.

9

yippieh!
now it is working. the code was okay, but it was the missing standard mail adress in hosteurope’s configuration. after setting this, everything is working fine.
thank you a lot for this decisive hint!
good night, carsten