form not passing and emailing variable

[kralspace]

Hi guys, can anyone help me?

I'm setting up a form that when submitted goes to a second page (short2.php) that shows the person what they submitted and a chance to go back and edit. When ready I want them to hit a submit button that will go to a thankyou page (short3.php) and emails the results to me. Right now it goes fine until short3.php, it emails "Name, Title" but not the information.

Here is short.php

<form action="short2.php" method="get">
Name <input name="firstPresenter" type="text"

size="58"><br>

      Title <input name="firstTitle" type="text"  size="58"><br>
       <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

Here is short2.php---the information shows up OK here

<form action="short3.php" method="get">
<?php
print "Name: \t$firstPresenter<br>
Title: \t\t$firstTitle<br>
<input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit'>";
?>
</form>

Here is short3.php---I receive "Name and Title" in my email, but not the information entered in short.php and passed on to short2.php----

<form action="short3.php" method="get">
Thank you <br>
<?php
$message = "Name: \t$firstPresenter
Title: \t\t$firstTitle";

mail( $to, $subject, $message ) or print "Could not send mail";

$email = "$message";
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "NTPN Conference Presentation Proposal";
$mailheaders = "From: 2003 NTPN webpage3 <> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $thereemail\n\n";
mail($to, $subject, $email, $mailheaders, $message);
?>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
</form>

thanks, Kathy

[kralspace]

I've been reading posts about the php.ini file, I got a copy of ours and found what I think they were talking about. It was hard to read coming out in one long string but I think the register_globals is already on.

any suggestions?

You should do your best to write your scripts so that they do not require
; register_globals to be on; Using form variables as globals can easily lead
; to possible security problems, if the code is not very well thought of.
register_globals = On

thanks, Kathy

[keith73]

Here is short2.php---the information shows up OK here

<form action="short3.php" method="get">
<?php
print "Name: \t$firstPresenter<br>
Title: \t\t$firstTitle<br>
<input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit'>";
?>
</form>

in short2.php you need form fields that contain the information you want to pass. In this case, you probably want hidden fields.

<input type="hidden" name="firstPresenter" value="<? echo $firstPresenter; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="firstTitle" value="<? echo $firstTitle; ?>">

and yes, best practices say you should be using $_GET['firstTitle'] instead of the $firstTitle.

• keith

[kralspace]

I tried it and it works beautifully, Keith!!!

thanks so much!

Kathy