[Help] Why isn't my sendmail working?

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Hi guys I'm seriously stressing hard about this. I seem to have written everything properly but my contact form just won't send an e-mail and update the status on my webpage. I fill out the details on my contact form and my status text stays on "Email is sending...". I'd REALLY REALLY appreciate any help you could toss my way. Thanks a ton!

sendmail.php

Code: 
<?php
$name       = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['name'])); 
$from       = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['email'])); 
$subject    = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['subject'])); 
$message    = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['message'])); 
$to   		= 'myemail@gmail.com';//replace with your email

$headers   = array();
$headers[] = "MIME-Version: 1.0";
$headers[] = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers[] = "From: {$name} <{$from}>";
$headers[] = "Reply-To: <{$from}>";
$headers[] = "Subject: {$subject}";
$headers[] = "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

die();
?>

main.js

Code: 
//Contact Form
	var form = $('#contact-form');
	form.submit(function(event){
		event.preventDefault();
		var form_status = $('.form-status');
		$.ajax({
			url: $(this).attr('action'),
			beforeSend: function(){
				form_status.find('.form-status-content').html('<p><i class="fa fa-spinner fa-spin"></i> Email is sending...</p>').fadeIn();
			}
		}).done(function(data){
			form_status.find('.form-status-content').html('<p class="text-success">Thank you for contact us. As early as possible  we will contact you</p>').delay(3000).fadeOut();
		});
	});

contact.html

Code: 
<form class="form-horizontal" id="contact-form" role="form">
                                <div class="form-group form-status">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-6">
                                        <div class="form-status-content">
                                        </div>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-6">
                                        <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Name" required="required">
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-6">
                                        <input type="email" name="email" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Email" required="required">
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-6">
                                        <input type="text" name="subject" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Subject" required="required">
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8">
                                        <textarea name="message" rows="6" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Message" required="required">	         </textarea>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8">
                                        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-transparent">Submit</button>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                            </form>


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Okay so now that status text "E-mail sent we'll contact you soon" but there is no e-mail sent. I logged (data) in main.js and no errors appear.

Edit2: My website is and navigate to the Contact page.

I'm flabbergasted I have no idea why it won't send.
 
try instead of die() in the php, to return a HTML 200 OK
 
changed to return; and still nothing

Code: 
<?php
$name       = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['name'])); 
$from       = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['email'])); 
$subject    = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['subject'])); 
$message    = @trim(stripslashes($_POST['message'])); 
$to   		= 'j0sh.all3n@gmail.com';//replace with your email

$headers   = array();
$headers[] = "MIME-Version: 1.0";
$headers[] = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers[] = "From: {$name} <{$from}>";
$headers[] = "Reply-To: <{$from}>";
$headers[] = "Subject: {$subject}";
$headers[] = "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

return;
?>

Any way to put an error logging code in there and how to do that? Sorry im completely new to all this. Thanks for your help though I really, really appreciate it. Seriously do.
 
try:

Code: 
http_response_code(200); 
die();

check please in browser inspector what is the response of the php in the ajax call!
 
Nothing. Lol.

I'm going to get rid of mail() and using something else. I'll post back if I can get a friggin e-mail sent with my contact form...
 
Save yourself a bunch a headaches and just use a third-party mailer such as PHPMailer or SwiftMailer (I use this one). The sending it is easy to do.


An example -

Form

Code: 
<?php
require_once 'assets/config/config.php';
require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

?>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport"
          content="width=device-width, user-scalable=yes, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Contact Form</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="assets/css/styles.css">
</head>
<body class="site">
<div id="skip"><a href="#content">Skip to Main Content</a></div>
<header class="masthead">

</header>

<?php include_once "assets/includes/inc.nav.php"; ?>

<main id="content" class="checkStyle">
    <div id="message">
        <h2 id="notice">Form Notification</h2>
    </div>
    <form id="contact" name="contact" action="contact.php" method="post" autocomplete="on">

        <input id="token" type="hidden" name="token" value="<?= $_SESSION['token'] ?>">
        <label class="labelstyle" for="name" accesskey="U">Contact Name</label>
        <input name="name" type="text" id="name" tabindex="1" autofocus required="required"/>

        <label class="labelstyle" for="email" accesskey="E">Email</label>
        <input name="email" type="email" id="email" tabindex="2" required="required"/>

        <label class="labelstyle" for="phone" accesskey="P">Phone <small>(optional)</small></label>
        <input name="phone" type="tel" id="phone" tabindex="3">

        <label class="labelstyle" for="web" accesskey="W">Website <small>(optional)</small></label>
        <input name="website" type="text" id="web" tabindex="4">

        <label for="message-type">Reason for Writing?</label>
        <select id="message-type" name="reason">
            <option value="message">Message</option>
            <option value="inquiry">Inquiry</option>
            <option value="order">Order</option>
        </select>

        <label class="textareaLabel" for="comments">Comments Length:<span id="length"></span></label>
        <textarea name="comments" id="comments" spellcheck="true" placeholder="Enter Message Here..." tabindex="6"
                  required="required"></textarea>
        <button id="submitForm" type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" tabindex="7" data-response="">Submit</button>
        
        <div id="recaptcha" class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Le0QrobAAAAAGDacgiAr1UbkPmj0i-LFyWXocfg"
             data-callback="correctCaptcha"></div>



    </form>
</main>

<div class="sidebar">

</div>

<footer class="colophon">
    <p>© <?php echo date("Y") ?> The Miniature Photographer</p>
</footer>
<script src="assets/js/contact.js" async defer></script>

<script>
    function correctCaptcha(response) {
        document.querySelector('#submitForm').setAttribute('data-response', response);
    }
</script>

<script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js' async defer></script>
</body>
</html>

Vanilla JavaScript
Code: 
'use strict';
/* Convert RGBa to HEX  */
const rgba2hex = (orig) => {
    let a,
        rgb = orig.replace(/\s/g, '').match(/^rgba?\((\d+),(\d+),(\d+),?([^,\s)]+)?/i),
        alpha = (rgb && rgb[4] || "").trim(),
        hex = rgb ?
            (rgb[1] | 1 << 8).toString(16).slice(1) +
            (rgb[2] | 1 << 8).toString(16).slice(1) +
            (rgb[3] | 1 << 8).toString(16).slice(1) : orig;

    if (alpha !== "") {
        a = alpha;
    } else {
        a = "01";
    }
    // multiply before convert to HEX
    a = ((a * 255) | 1 << 8).toString(16).slice(1);
    hex = hex + a;

    return hex;
};

const myColor = (colorcode) => {
    let hexColor = rgba2hex(colorcode);
    return '#' + hexColor;
};

/*
 * Constants & Variables Initialization Section.
 */
const myGreen = myColor("rgba(29, 100, 31, 0.70)"); /* Green with 70% transparency */
const myRed = myColor("rgba(84, 0, 30, 0.50)"); /* Red with 70% transparency */
const myBorder = myColor("rgba(85, 85, 85, 1.00");
const contact = () => {
    const d = document;
    const sendUrl = 'sendMsg.php';
    const submit = d.querySelector('#submitForm');
    const radioBtn = d.querySelector('#message-type');
    const buttons = d.getElementsByName("reason");
    const message = d.querySelector('#message');
    const messageSuccess = d.querySelector('#messageSuccess');

    let name = d.querySelector('#name');
    let email = d.querySelector('#email');
    let phone = d.querySelector('#phone');
    let website = d.querySelector('#web');
    let notice = d.querySelector('#notice');
    let sendEmail = {};
    let sendStatus = {
        name: false,
        email: false,
        comments: false
    };
    sendEmail.reason = 'message';
    sendEmail.token = d.querySelector('#token').value;

    message.style.display = "none";

    let comments = d.querySelector("textarea");
    let output = d.querySelector("#length");

    //d.getElementById('contact').scrollIntoView();


    name.addEventListener('input', () => {
        const value = name.value.trim();

        if (value) {
            name.style.borderColor = myBorder;
            sendEmail.name = name.value;
            sendStatus.name = true;
        } else {
            name.style.borderColor = "red";
            name.value = "";
            name.placeholder = "Name Required";
            name.focus();

        }

    });

    const emailIsValid = (email) => {
        return /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/.test(email);
    };

    email.addEventListener('change', () => {
        let status = emailIsValid(email.value);
        console.log('Email Address', email.value, 'Status', status);
        if (!status) {
            email.value = "";
            email.placeholder = "Email Address is Invalid!";
            email.style.borderColor = "red";
            email.focus();
        } else {
            email.style.borderColor = myBorder;
            sendEmail.email = email.value;
            sendStatus.email = true;
        }
    });


    /*
     * Selection Element
     */
    buttons.forEach((value, index) => {
        //console.log(value, index);
        buttons[index].addEventListener('change', (e) => {
            sendEmail.reason = e.target.value;
            //console.log('Reason:', sendEmail.reason);
        });
    });


    comments.addEventListener("input", () => {
        // noinspection JSValidateTypes
        output.textContent = comments.value.length;
        const value = comments.value.trim();

        if (value) {
            comments.style.borderColor = myBorder;
            sendEmail.comments = comments.value;
            sendStatus.comments = true;
        } else {
            comments.style.borderColor = "red";
            comments.placeholder = "Message Required!";
            comments.focus();
        }
    });


    /* Success function utilizing FETCH */
    const sendUISuccess = function (result) {
        //console.log('Result', result);
        if (result) {
            d.querySelector('#recaptcha').style.display = "none";
            submit.style.display = "none";
            notice.style.display = "grid";

            notice.textContent = "Email Successfully Sent!";
            notice.style.color = "green";
            message.style.display = "grid";
            //messageSuccess.style.display = "block";
            d.querySelectorAll('form > *').forEach(function (a) {
                a.disabled = true;
            });
        }
    };

    /* If Database Table fails to update data in mysql table */
    const sendUIError = function (error) {
        console.log("Database Table did not load", error);
    };

    const handleSaveErrors = function (response) {
        if (!response.ok) {
            throw (response.status + ' : ' + response.statusText);
        }
        return response.json();
    };

    const saveRequest = (sendUrl, succeed, fail) => {

        fetch(sendUrl, {
            method: 'POST', // or 'PUT'
            body: JSON.stringify(sendEmail)

        })
            .then((response) => handleSaveErrors(response))
            .then((data) => succeed(data))
            .catch((error) => fail(error));
    };

    submit.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
        e.preventDefault();
        sendEmail.phone = phone.value;
        sendEmail.website = website.value;
        sendEmail.response = submit.getAttribute('data-response');
        if (email.value === '') {
            email.placeholder = "Email Address is Invalid!";
            email.style.borderColor = "red";
            email.focus();
        }
        if (sendStatus.name && sendStatus.email && sendStatus.comments) {
            saveRequest(sendUrl, sendUISuccess, sendUIError);
        } else {
            notice.style.display = "block";
            notice.textContent = "Name, Email, and Message Required!";
        }
    }, false);


};


contact();
The PHP Portion of it
Code: 
<?php

require_once 'assets/config/config.php';
require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

use PhotoTech\sendMail;

/*
 * The below must be used in order for the json to be decoded properly.
 */
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);

$token = $data['token'];

if (hash_equals($_SESSION['token'], $data['token'])) {
    /* The Following to get response back from Google recaptcha */
    $url = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify";

    $remoteServer = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'REMOTE_ADDR', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
    /*
     * g-response is from $data['response'] that was sent over using FETCH
     */
    $response = file_get_contents($url . "?secret=". PRIVATE_KEY . "&response=" . $data['response'] . "&remoteip=" . $remoteServer);
    $recaptcha_data = json_decode($response);
    /* The actual check of the recaptcha */
    if (isset($recaptcha_data->success) && $recaptcha_data->success === TRUE) {
        /*
         * If token matches and ReCaptcha is valid then send to an email
         * php script or php class. I personally use Swiftmailer, but you can use
         * another 3rd Party Mailer or write you own email script (I wouldn't
         * recommend it).
         */
        $data['message'] =
            '<html lang="en">' .
            '<body style=\'background: #eee;\'>' .
            '<p style="font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5;">' . $data['name'] . '<br>' . $data['email'] . '<br>' . $data['phone'] . '<br>' . $data['website'] . '<br> Subject of Email is ' . $data['reason'] . '</p>' .
            '<p style="font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.5;">' . $data['comments'] . '</p>' .
            '<p style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5;">Thank You, for taking your time to contact me! I will get back to you as soon as I can.<br> Best regards, John Pepp</p>' .
            '</body>' .
            '</html>';
        $send = new sendMail();

        $result = $send->sendEmail($data);

        /* Send Back Result (true or false) back to Fetch */
        if ($result) {
            output(true);
        } else {
            errorOutput(false);
        }
    } else {
        $success = "You're not a human!"; // Not on a production server:
    }
} else {
    output('Token Error');
}

function errorOutput($output, $code = 500) {
    http_response_code($code);
    echo json_encode($output);
}


/*
 * After converting data array to JSON send back to javascript using
 * this function.
 */
function output($output) {
    http_response_code(200);
    echo json_encode($output);
}
 
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