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Contact page form email validation problem (PHP7)

wolter — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:32:55 +0000

Hi,

The contact form on my website doesn’t work. When sending a message, the page reloads without any content on that page and the email won’t send.

I am running WP 4.7.1, Aqua 2.30 and plugins like WP SEO, jQuery updater, Layerslider and WP Import.

Any idea what’s happening here?

wolter — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:35:43 +0000

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BlueOwl — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:06:15 +0000

Hi there!

Seems like the page breaks upon sending the email, at least that’s what happened with my test.
Have you edited the contact.php template?

wolter — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 04:22:05 +0000

Thats right, it breaks. I havent edited anything in the code though

BlueOwl — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 11:34:31 +0000

Hi again,

Let me have some FTP access to your website so I can inspect it, pls use a private reply!

wolter — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:21:52 +0000

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BlueOwl — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:49:59 +0000

Hi again,

Looks like it was a problem with PHP7, I replaced eregi with preg_match in your contact.php template. Can you check if that fixed it?

wolter — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:57:10 +0000

Thanks. The page works after submitting, but now I get a message saying that ‘all fields need to be filled’ . I did that though… Tried 3 times.

BlueOwl — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:45:57 +0000

You filled all fields correctly?

BlueOwl — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:48:58 +0000

Ok, changed the validation there from:

} else if (!eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($_POST['email']))) {

to:

} else if (!filter_var(trim($_POST['email']), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {

can you try now?