DISCLAIMER : I AM VERY NEW TO WEB DEVELOPMENT
I have started using Cloudflare pages with the idea in mind that they can host my website for free. Everything went exactly as I wanted (setting up custom domains, DNS, GitHub…) except my PHP.
For more context I have built an HTML Form which has an method of “POST” and an action of “my_php_file.php”. In my javascript file I validate the data with jQuery validation plugin and handle the submission with the jQuery Form plugin, links are provided below. My PHP file basically just has code for sending E-mails to Google’s SMTP server (smtp.gmail.com) by using the PHPMailer library, link is below. The important thing is that it worked perfectly well and I could send E-mails that have my HTML Form data flawlessly with the mentioned plugins and libraries using PHP’s built-in web server (link below).
However when I connected my GitHub repo with Cloudflare Pages and set it all up, the E-mail sending functionality stopped working. In DevTools under “Network” it listed my POST request with the status 405 “Method not allowed”.
After that I learned about Cloudflare Pages Functions which I’m guessing can provide the functionality I need, however I could not find the solution to my exact problem so here I am hoping that someone could explain to me thoroughly how do I achieve what I want. In my research I found some websites that are connected with my problem, but again I could not understand how to fix my problem with their help (links are below).
LINKS :
(https://jqueryvalidation.org/)
(https://jquery.malsup.com/form/)
(https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
(https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver)
Some sites I found in my research:
(https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/tutorials/forms/)
(https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/functions/api-reference/)
