Form variables Blank. Help.

[Anon]

I created a page with a basic form on it:

<form method = "post" action = "send.php">
Name : <input type = "text" name= "name">
<br>
E-mail : <input type = "text" name = "email">
<br>
Phone : <input type = "text" name= "phone">
<input type = "submit" value = "Submit">
</form>

It calls send.php.
When I go to use them, it doesn't work!
<?php
$message = "Name : $name \nE-mail : $email \nPhone : $phone";
mail("[e-mail]","Website Results", $message");
?>

When I get the e-mail the result is:
Name :
E-mail :
Phone :

The variables aren't there. Can somebody help me?

[icaro]

do this

<?php
$message = "Name : $name \nE-mail : $email \nPhone : $phone";

echo $message;
// to confirm if the problem is before here

// and there is an extra quote at the end of your call for mail function:..., message");
// it would give you a sintaxe error msg...
mail("[e-mail]","Website Results", $message");
?>

[mistcat]

try this:

<?php
$message = "Name : $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] \nE-mail : $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'] \nPhone : $HTTP_POST_VARS['phone']";
mail("[e-mail]","Website Results", $message");
?>

[Anon]

The code I put on the board wasn't the actual code. The actual code I'm using is a realestate thing that I'm creating and it looks like this:

<?php
//The name variable works here
echo "$Name 1 <br>";

$messagetype = "buyer";
switch($messagetype)
{
case "buyer":
echo "$Name 2<br>";
buyer();
break;

case "seller":
seller();
break;

case "general":
general();
break;

default:
echo "Invalid Message Type";
break;

}

//The name variable works here when I
//make the switch statment go to defualt

function buyer()
{
//The name variable does not work here
echo "$Name 3<br>";
$sendto = "[e-mail]";

$subject = "Buyer Request";

$message = "Name : $name \n
Address : $Address \n
City : $City \n
State : $State \n
Zip : $Zip \n
Phone : $Phone \n

Fax : $FAX \n

E-mail : $E-mail \n

Property Type -\n
Residential : $Residential\n
Commercial : $Commercial \n
Land : $Land \n
Investment : $Investment\n

Specific Requirements -
Area/s Interested in : $AreasInterestedIn\n

of Bedrooms : $Bedrooms \n

of Baths : $Baths \n

of Square Feet : $SQFT\n

Car Garage : $CarGarage \n

Price Range : $PriceRange \n
Other Requirements : $OtherRequirements

Comments : $Comments \n

";

//The name variable does not work here
echo $Name;
mail($sendto, $subject, $message);
exit;
}

The name variable will not work anywhere in the buyer function. Please Help.

[lightning]

The reason you can't use the variable in your function is because it is beyond the scope of the variable. In PHP, variables are assumed local unless told otherwise, and thus cannot be used in functions unless made global, created in the function, or passed to the function. (PHP differs here from C, which assumes a var is global unless specified local)

To be able to use $Name in function buyer(), add the line: "global $Name;" within the function.

Example:

function buyer()
{
global $Name; // this is the added line
echo "$Name 3<br>";
...
}

Here's the URL to the PHP manual page on variable scope:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

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