Not another dumb FORM question!!!

[neobyte]

Yes, I'm afraid so...
I've checked a number of tutorials, & know something about programming, but I'm missing the point somehow on the PHP syntax for getting a form to work. Here's part (I only included a few of the variables from my html form) of the coding I've done up to this point. ((When I go to my site and send the form I'm redirected to my thankyou page, but when I open my email. I see sender, subject, but in the message area all I see is "from:" (without quotes.))
<?php
$message=false;
$subject='Placement Form';
$email_to='[e-mail]';
$email_from=$POST['email'];

$message.='Client contact:'.$POST['client_contact']."\n\r";
$message.='Client company:'.$POST['client_company']."\n\r";
$message.='Client address:'.$POST['client_address']."\n\r";
...
$message.='Client city:'.$POST['client_city']."\n\r";
$message.='Client state:'.$_POST['client_state']."\n\r";

mail($email_to,$subject,$email_from,$_POST['message']);
header("Location: http://www.rjscollects.com/thankyou.html");
?>
Do I need a post_vars or am I totally out in left field?
Thanks in advance for any input...-dave

[jnuneznyc]

Shouldn't this line have an underscore '_' between $ and POST?

$email_from=$POST['email'];

[ahundiak]

It's probably not a form issue.

First off, use $message instead of $_POST['message'] in the mail() function.

Secondly, you left out the underscore in $email_from=$_POST['email'];

But, most importantly, you are not using the mail() function correctly. Review the manual, the arguments are
mail($to,$subject,$message,additional headers);

So, $message needs to go third. And if you want to set the 'from' header correctly then you need to add some properly formated header additional header lines.

[neobyte]

Thanks for the input! Yeah...I see the typo...funny though--the script still sent the email and showed the subject and sender...go figure, huh?!
I've done some further study since I submitted this...and I see that there's more to come. Thanks...great site and people!