debugging rsvp-submit.php

static/rsvp-submit.php

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 
-
 require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
 
 use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
@@ -10,7 +9,6 @@ use Dotenv\Dotenv;
 $dotenv = Dotenv::createImmutable(__DIR__ . '/../');
 $dotenv->safeLoad();
 
-
 function checkboxArrayToString($value)
 {
     if (is_array($value) && count($value) > 0) {
@@ -39,8 +37,8 @@ $first_name = trim($_POST['first_name'] ?? '');
 $last_name  = trim($_POST['last_name'] ?? '');
 $name       = trim("$first_name $last_name");
 
-$email      = trim($_POST['email'] ?? '');
-$phone      = trim($_POST['phone'] ?? '');
+$email = trim($_POST['email'] ?? '');
+$phone = trim($_POST['phone'] ?? '');
 
 // Attendance
 $attendance = $_POST['attendance'] ?? 'Unknown';
@@ -107,12 +105,13 @@ try {
     $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
 
     $mail->isSMTP();
-    $mail->Host = gethostbyname($_ENV['SMTP_HOST']);
+    $mail->Host       = $_ENV['SMTP_HOST'];
     $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;
     $mail->Username   = $_ENV['SMTP_USER'];
     $mail->Password   = $_ENV['SMTP_PASS'];
     $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
     $mail->Port       = (int)$_ENV['SMTP_PORT'];
+    $mail->Timeout    = 10;
 
     $mail->setFrom($_ENV['FROM_EMAIL'], $_ENV['FROM_NAME']);
     $mail->addAddress($_ENV['TO_EMAIL']);
@@ -196,7 +195,6 @@ EOD;
 
     $mail->Body = $body;
 
-$mail->Timeout = 10;
     $mail->send();
 
     header('Location: /thank-you/');
@@ -204,5 +202,8 @@ $mail->Timeout = 10;
 
 } catch (Exception $e) {
 
-    echo "RSVP could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
+    error_log('RSVP mail error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo);
+
+    http_response_code(500);
+    echo 'An error occurred while sending the RSVP.';
 }