# Contact Form email problem?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-email-problem/38041>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-email-problem/38041 "2021-03-08T23:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quinnovator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/quinnovator/32/10225_2.png) [@Quinnovator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Quinnovator)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-email-problem/38041/1 "2021-03-08T23:11:50Z")

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Was using FormLoom for contact (tho’ don’t ‘get’ their Captcha), but my ISP wants to upgrade PHP to 8.0, and Yabdab isn’t ready. So I went back to your contact form, but…when I try it on my site, I get “I’m sorry, there seems to have been an error trying to send your email. Please try again.” Which isn’t helpful. I can’t find where to specify my mail server. I have tried it with the ‘use your email’ ticked, or not. I don’t know where to use the other option, specifying address in PhP script. Help?

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**Author:** ![pmjd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pmjd/32/18671_2.png) [@pmjd](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/pmjd)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-email-problem/38041/2 "2021-03-09T00:10:44Z")

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Your ISP seems to be a bit over zealous on forcing an upgrade to php 8. Version 7.4 is still supported for a while yet.

There was a previous thread about this topic

> [@Contact form does not work with PHP 8.0](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-does-not-work-with-php-8-0/37302):
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> Hi everybody, The contact form integrated into RW7 does not work with the new PHP 8.0 version. When you send a message, you get this : Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get\_magic\_quotes\_gpc()… After internet research, get\_magic\_quotes\_gpc() has been removed in PHP 8 (deprecated since 7.4). Is there a solution ? Just for information, can someone tell me if the contact form built into RW8 works with PHP 8.0. Thank you for your answers

End result is that most RW devs, including RealMac, have not tested their products for php 8 compatibility (due to 7.4 still being supported).

Solution is either to use a HTML contact form (see posts), an obfuscated mailto: link, or in your case change hosts to a company less eager to be up to date at the exclusion of everything else.

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/contact-form-email-problem/38041/3 "2021-04-08T10:10:45Z")

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