textarea in php email

[Anon]

Hi,

I am trying to send the results of a form via email. All boxes work except the comments box, which is a textarea. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. Below are the coding for the form and the email code:

*******form**********

<!--#include file="header.inc"-->
<form action="enquiry.php3" name="frmEnquiry" id="frmEnquiry" method="get">
<TABLE border=0 width="100%">

<TR>

	<TD vAlign=top width=125><!--#include file="lhmenu.inc"--></TD>

	<!-- start of middle column -->

	<TD vAlign=top><DIV align=center><br>



	<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=2 cellSpacing=0 width=480 style="WIDTH: 484px">

	<TR bgColor="#0068a0">

		<TD colSpan=4 vAlign=top style="FONT-SIZE:10pt; COLOR: #ffffff"><B>Enquiry \ Comments</B></TD>

	</TR>

	<TR>

		<TD colSpan=4 style="FONT-SIZE:10pt"><br>Please fill all boxes.</TD>

	</tr>

	<tr>

		<td>

			<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0" class="formfeedbackcalss">

				<tr>

					<td style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" valign=top>Name:</td>

					<td><input name="name" size="16" style="height: 18px; width: 300px"></td>

				</tr>

				<tr>

					<td style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" valign=top>Company:</td>

					<td><input name="company" size="16" style="height: 18px; width: 300px"></td>

				</tr>

				<tr>

					<td style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" valign=top>E-mail:</td>

					<td><input name="email" size="16" style="height: 18px; width: 300px"></td>

				</tr>

				<tr>

					<td style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" valign=top>Comments \ Enquiry:</td>

					<td><textarea cols="50" name"comments" rows="10" style="height: 86px; width: 300px"></textarea></td>

				</tr>

				<tr>

					<td><br><br><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="cmdGo"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></td>

				</tr>

			</table>



		</td>

	</tr>

	</form>



	</TR>

</TABLE>

</DIV></TD>

	<TD align=right vAlign=top width=125>

		<TABLE width=125>

			<TR>

    			<TD><!-- start of right hand column --><!--#include file="rhmenu.inc"--></TD>

			</TR>

		</TABLE>

	</TD>

</TR>

</TABLE>

<!-- start of bottom section -->

<!--#include file="footer.inc"-->

*********end of form***********

*********php behind the form*******

<?php
$sTo = "Mel Bagley <[e-mail]>";
$sFrom = "Enquiry Form <enquiries@entrax..co.uk>";
$sSubject = "Results from Enquiry Form";
$sBody = "You have the following results:\n";
$sBody .= "-------------------------------\n";
$sBody .= "Name: $name\n";
$sBody .= "Company: $company\n";
$sBody .= "Email: $email\n";
$sBody .= "Comments: $comments\n";
mail($sTo, "$sSubject", $sBody, "From: $sFrom\n");
echo $comments;

********end of php***********

[Anon]

change the method from GET to POST i.e make it METHOD="POST"

you are using GET method at the moment, and in comments, it will terminate when it encounters first -white space- the GET method passes the variables through URL. another limitation in GET is the length of URL. there is fixed number of characters allowed in URL, i think no more than 255.

hope that solves the problem.

[Anon]

Hi,

Thanks for the email. I changed the method to post. But the contents of the comments box, still does not show.

Thanks for trying

Regards

Mel Bagley

[Anon]

look in your code...
shouldn't the following ...
name"comments"
read
name="comments"
?

[Anon]

Thanks, I didn't think I could be so stupid.
We had been all over that code, but I suppose its easy to miss when you don't expect it.

Thanks Again.

Mel Bagley.