'How do I fix the POST 405 error for an email form (PHP) hosted on http-server?
I am new to PHP and jQuery. I wanted to test the functionality for the email contact form in PHP that I call from my jQuery file. I have been filling in the details on the form correctly, however, whenever I press the "Submit" button, I get 405 error.
To be more precise, I get "POST http://192.168.87.1:8080/js/inc/contactformhandler.php 405 (Method Not Allowed)" from jquery-3.4.1.min.js:2. I am running my website on http-server !.
My HTML form:
<div class="row contact-form">
<div class="col-twelve">
<!-- form -->
<form name="contactForm" id="contactForm" method="POST">
<fieldset>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactName" type="text" id="contactName" placeholder="Name" value="" minlength="2" required="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactEmail" type="email" id="contactEmail" placeholder="Email" value="" required="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<input name="contactSubject" type="text" id="contactSubject" placeholder="Subject" value="">
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<textarea name="contactMessage" id="contactMessage" placeholder="message" rows="10" cols="50" required=""></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-field">
<button class="submitform">Submit</button>
<div id="submit-loader">
<div class="text-loader">Sending...</div>
<div class="s-loader">
<div class="bounce1"></div>
<div class="bounce2"></div>
<div class="bounce3"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form> <!-- Form End -->
<!-- contact-warning -->
<div id="message-warning">
</div>
<!-- contact-success -->
<div id="message-success">
<i class="fa fa-check"></i>Your message was sent, thank you!<br>
</div>
</div> <!-- /col-twelve -->
</div> <!-- /contact-form -->
JS code where I try to load the contactformhandler.php:
/* local validation */
$('#contactForm').validate({
/* submit via ajax */
submitHandler: function(form) {
var sLoader = $('#submit-loader');
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "js/inc/contactformhandler.php",
data: $(form).serialize(),
beforeSend: function() {
sLoader.fadeIn();
},
success: function(msg) {
// Message was sent
if (msg == 'OK') {
sLoader.fadeOut();
$('#message-warning').hide();
$('#contactForm').fadeOut();
$('#message-success').fadeIn();
}
// There was an error
else {
sLoader.fadeOut();
$('#message-warning').html(msg);
$('#message-warning').fadeIn();
}
},
error: function() {
sLoader.fadeOut();
$('#message-warning').html("Something went wrong with loader. Please try again.");
$('#message-warning').fadeIn();
}
});
}
});
contactformhandler.php:
<?php
//Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
// Replace this with your own email address
$siteOwnersEmail = '[email protected]';
if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {
$name = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactName']));
$email = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactEmail']));
$subject = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactSubject']));
$contact_message = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactMessage']));
// Check Name
if (strlen($name) < 2) {
$error['name'] = "Please enter your name.";
}
// Check Email
if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9&\'\.\-_\+]+@[a-z0-9\-]+\.([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*+[a-z]{2}/is', $email)) {
$error['email'] = "Please enter a valid email address.";
}
// Check Message
if (strlen($contact_message) < 15) {
$error['message'] = "Please enter your message. It should have at least 15 characters.";
}
// Subject
if ($subject == '') { $subject = "Contact Form Submission"; }
// Set Message
$message .= "Email from: " . $name . "<br />";
$message .= "Email address: " . $email . "<br />";
$message .= "Message: <br />";
$message .= $contact_message;
$message .= "<br /> ----- <br /> This email was sent from your site's contact form. <br />";
// Set From: header
$from = $name . " <" . $email . ">";
// Email Headers
$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
if (!$error) {
mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'MyWebsiteEmail';
$mail->Password = 'MyPassword';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; //<---- THIS is the problem
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->setFrom('MyWebsiteEmail', 'My Website');
$mail->addAddress($siteOwnersEmail, 'Krzysztof Baran');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->AltBody = 'test text';
try {
$mail->send();
echo 'OK';
}
catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) {
$e->getMessage();
}
} # end if - no validation error
else {
$response = (isset($error['name'])) ? $error['name'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['email'])) ? $error['email'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['message'])) ? $error['message'] . "<br />" : null;
echo $response;
} # end if - there was a validation error
}
?>
I expect the website to display box saying Your message was sent, thank you! but I am getting Something went wrong with loader. Please try again.
Solution 1:[1]
You should use form in .php file not in .html file
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Gourav |