Form Variables

321bruno

I need a little help. I'm VERY new to PHP. I have a feedback form I'm working on:

form.htm
verify.php
sendmail.php

Form is just the HTML for the fields. It passes to verify.php that asks the user if their information is ok. (YES or NO)

If they choose YES, the script processes sendmail.php which DOES send the email (that isn't the problem), but when I get the email, none of the variables appeared.

Variables:

$first_name
$last_name
$subject
$body

I guess my problem is, I don't know how to pass variables page to page to page. The verify.php NEEDS to pass those variables to sendmail.php but I don't know how to do that.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[deleted]

Check this out, exactly what you are looking for:

http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php?show=28

321bruno

Thank you for the tutorial! However, it's not EXACTLY what I needed. This is good for passing the values, but not the variables. Maybe I missed something, but this didn't work for me.

321bruno

I attached a ZIP file of the 3 docs I'm talking about. I figured this might be better than trying to copy and paste everything in to this tiny window. Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

rIkLuNd

What you have to do is to change the method in the first form from GET to POST... 😉

321bruno

I guess I'm missing something else somewhere, because changing to POST in the first form didn't work. Maybe there's some bad syntax somewhere that I'm just not seeing.

rIkLuNd

Maybe you've got to un-comment the re-declaration in verify.php... Like this:

<?php
	//The variables are re-defined so we can use them again here.
	$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
	$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
	$subject = $_POST['subject'];
	$body = $_POST['body'];

//Here we ask the user to verify that the information is correct.  Neat.
print ("Please Verify the following information:<p>");
print ("First Name: <b>$first_name</b> <br>");
print ("Last Name: <b>$last_name</b> <br>");
print ("Subject: <b>$subject</b> <br>");
print ("Body: <b>$body</b> <p>");
print ("Is This Correct?");
?>

321bruno

I don't get it. I can't seem to do this simple stupid little operation. I've tried everything suggested but the damn variables just don't seem to get passed to sendmail.php.

If anyone can help by looking at the ZIP file I put in my previous post, that would very helpful. This is my 3rd day on this, and I just can't believe I can't pass a damn variable to a 3rd page.

swjohnson

<? trace_vars ?> on your receiving code.

My contact form passes variables to my send_mail.php code in the following manner...

<?track_vars?>
<?php
$msg="Questions answered?\t$found_info\n";
$msg.="Message:\t$message\n\n";

$mailheaders = "From $sender_name\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply to: $sender_email\n\n";
$mailheaders .= "Subject: $sender_subject\n\n";

mail("steve@yourname.com", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
mail("viktor@syourname.com", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

Then I have an html page directly beneath this code that displays a thank you with the $sender_name incorporated into the page.

Also notice that I am sending duplicate emails to me and my partner.

321bruno

Thanks Steve, but that didn't help either. It seems to me like it's pretty simple. Page 1 is a form with 4 fields: first, last, subject, body. Page 2 prints out all the variables, first, last, subject, body. It asks, "Is this information correct?". If YES, it posts to Page 3 which ultimately sends the email. The mail function works FINE, but it does not pass the variables:

mail("brian@netpixels.com", $subject, $body, "From: $first_name $last_name <yourname@yourdomain.com>");

I actually get the email, but it didn't pass the variables, so there is no FIRST, LAST, SUBJECT, BODY. It's just blank. I'm just starting to learn PHP, so this is new to me, but how could it be this difficult?

swjohnson

Try adding your page 3 (send email) to the bottom of your page 2..

Or try eliminating page 2 and see if it works.

What I posted does work on a two page system.

You can see it work at http://www.softnuggets.com under Contact Us.

Drop me a line from there and I will send you the code direct so you can test it.

321bruno

Oh I KNOW I could make it work with 2 pages. But, I KNOW at some point in the future (if I continue to learn PHP) I'll want to pass variables among pages so I CAN add extra steps like verification or whatever. Either what I'm trying to do happens to be one of the most complex mechanisms in PHP or I'm just missing something really simple.

As far as moving Page 3's code to the end of Page 2, how would that work exactly? I still have to POST that data somewhere. How does a page POST to itself?

swjohnson

PHP and HTML are interchangable. You can embed PHP into HTML and vice versa.

Here is my working code...

<?track_vars?>
<?php
$msg="Questions answered?\t$found_info\n";
$msg.="Message:\t$message\n\n";

$mailheaders = "From $sender_name\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply to: $sender_email\n\n";
$mailheaders .= "Subject: $sender_subject\n\n";

mail("steve@yoursite.com", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
mail("viktor@yoursite.com", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

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