title: Form send button php not working
body: <p>I have a simple form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="send_form_email.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"&gt;
      &lt;input type="text" name="first_name" placeholder="NAME:" size="100" class="grey-bg"/&gt;
      &lt;input type="text" name="last_name" placeholder="E-MAIL:" size="100" class="grey-bg"/&gt;
      &lt;br /&gt;
      &lt;br /&gt;
      &lt;textarea type="text" name="message" rows="20" cols="201" placeholder="MESSAGE:" size="162"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;br /&gt;
      &lt;div&gt;
          &lt;input id="contact-send-btn" type="submit" value="Send"&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is the php file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
  
  
  
      // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
  
      $email_to = "xxxxxxxx";
  
      $email_subject = "Hello";
  
  
  
  
  
      function died($error) {
  
          // your error code can go here
  
          echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
  
          echo "These errors appear below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
  
          echo $error."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
  
          echo "Please go back and fix these errors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
  
          die();
  
      }
  
  
  
      // validation expected data exists
  
      if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
  
          !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
  
          !isset($_POST['message']) ||
  
          died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
  
      }
  
  
  
      $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
  
      $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
  
      $message = $_POST['message']; // required
  
      $error_message = "";
  
      $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  
    if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
  
      $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
  
    }
  
      $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
  
    if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
  
      $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
  
    }
  
    if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
  
      $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
  
    }
  
    if(strlen($message) &lt; 2) {
  
      $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
  
    }
  
    if(strlen($error_message) &gt; 0) {
  
      died($error_message);
  
    }
  
      $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
  
  
  
      function clean_string($string) {
  
        $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
  
        return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
  
      }
  
  
  
      $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
  
      $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
  
      $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
  
  
  
  // create email headers
  
  $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
  
  'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
  
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
  
  @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
  
  ?&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;!-- include your own success html here --&gt;
  
  
  
  Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
  
  
  
  &lt;?php
  
  }
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However when I click the button it just opens the php file in the browser and nothing is received in my inbox? All I want is to receive the email with the details in the form?</p>