[Beginner] PHP contact form trouble

[koleon]

i got a theme that included a contact us form, im very unfamiliar with php and was hoping someone can help me out with whats broken with it. The form validation works fine but fails in the mail sending process I have a site hosted with go daddy and did a basic php mail test page that was working fine. Here are the two files (incl_functions.js & incl_mail.php) that contain the php mail code, its a very basic contact us form. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

incl_functions.js



function nl2br(text)
{
var text = escape(text);

if(text.indexOf('%0D%0A') > -1)
{
var re_nlchar = /%0D%0A/g ;
}
else if(text.indexOf('%0A') > -1)
{
var re_nlchar = /%0A/g ;
}
else if(text.indexOf('%0D') > -1)
{
var re_nlchar = /%0D/g ;
}

return unescape( text.replace(re_nlchar,'<br />'));
}

function SendContactForm(form)
{
var xmlHttp

document.getElementById('statusbar').style.display = 'block';
document.getElementById('statusbar').innerHTML =
'<p><strong><img src="./Images/loading.gif" alt="" width="16" /> Sending message..</strong></p>';

form.submitcontact.disabled = true;
form.clear.disabled = true;
form.name.disabled = true;
form.email.disabled = true;
form.subject.disabled = true;
form.message.disabled = true;

var name = form.name.value;
var email = form.email.value;
var subject = form.subject.value;
var message = nl2br(form.message.value);



try
{
//Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
catch (e)
{
// Internet Explorer
try
{
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e)
{
try
{
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e)
{
alert("Your browser does not support AJAX!");
return false;
}
}
}

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)
{
var response = xmlHttp.responseText;
var arrresponse = response.split('\\n');

if(arrresponse[0] == 'SUCCESS') {
document.getElementById('formcontainer').innerHTML = '';
}
else {
form.submitcontact.disabled = false;
form.clear.disabled = false;
form.name.disabled = false;
form.email.disabled = false;
form.subject.disabled = false;
form.message.disabled = false;
}

document.getElementById('statusbar').innerHTML = '<p><strong>' + arrresponse[1] + '</strong></p>';

}
}


var qstring = "./Includes/incl_mail.php?name=" + name + "&email=" + email + "&subject=" + subject + "&message=" + message;

xmlHttp.open("GET", qstring, true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}

incl_mail.php

<?php

$to = 'contact@email.com';


// Begin script
if(!empty($_GET['name'])
&& !empty($_GET['email'])
&& !empty($_GET['message']))
{
$name = $_GET['name'];;
$email = $_GET['email'];
$subject = $_GET['subject'];
$message = $_GET['message'];

$message = ' <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
' . nl2br($message) . '
<br /><br /><br />
</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
<b>Contact:</b>
<br />
</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
' . $name . '
<br />
</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
' . $email . '
<br />
</font>';


$headers = "From: " . $email . "\n"
. "Reply-To: " . $email . "\n"
. "Return-Path: <" . $email . ">\n";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$boundary = md5(time());

$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary = $boundary\n\n";

$message = "--$boundary\n"
. "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n"
. chunk_split(base64_encode($message));


if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
$status = 'SUCCESS';
$response = 'Thank you. Your message has been successfully sent!';
}
else
{
$status = 'FAILED';
$response = 'Your message could not be sent. Please try again.';
}
}
else
{
$status = 'FAILED';
$response = 'Please check these fields: ';

if(empty($_GET['name']))
$response .= '<strong>Name</strong> | ';
if(empty($_GET['email']))
$response .= '<strong>Email address</strong> | ';
if(empty($_GET['message']))
$response .= '<strong>Message</strong>';
}


echo $status . '\n' . $response;


?>

[prasanthmj]

with godaddy you may have to use SMTP rather than plain PHP mail().

Try PHPMailer

See the links below:
http://www.techtalkz.com/php/66199-using-phpmailer.html

http://community.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/phpmailer-with-godaddy-smtp-email-server-script-working

[koleon]

but wouldnt this test page i made not work then? This successfully sends mail, which is why i think the problem is somewhere else:


mail_test.php

<?php

if(mail('cbvitek@gmail.com','Colin Testing',nl2br('test message'))){

echo('ok');

}

else{

echo('not ok');

}

?>