Email form help

zorigo

Hi. For some reason, my mail script works, but it won't send any of the variables from the form. In other words, I get the email, but it is empty. Here is my code. Thanks in advance!

I have a form that is as follows:

Then I have an email script that is the following:

<?php
@$Body = "This person wants to join your newsletter list\n\n"
"Name: $Name\n"
"E-mail: $Email\n";
mail("subscribe@mysite.com", "Subscription Request", $Body);
?>

ihenman

Are you getting any info in the email @ all? i.e.

is the @body variable you set up working? does it come through in the email.... the way I normally do it is...

File: ProcessScript.php

<? php
$msg .= "This person wants to join your newsletter list\n\n"
$msg .= "Name:\t$name\n";
$msg .= "E-mail:\t$email\n";

$recipient = "subscribe@mysite.com";
$subject = "Subscription Request";
$mailheaders = "From: \t $name<> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

You may also want to do a test of Echo'ing the variables $email & $name to the browser to ensure they are getting passed through. Sometimes the Global_variables command w/ PHP can cause some problems with this as well..

zorigo

Yes, the email does come through, just none of the form variables are with it. How would I set up the @$Body variable? Even if I change the variable names to $ContactName and$EmailAddress, it still doesn't come through. Is there any other advice you can give me?

ihenman

Well let's see....

Is the form passed directly to your PHP file? Nothing happens in between like a verfication file or something that echo's the data back to the user?

If this is the case it's possible you may have to declare the variables agin using

where variable_name is what ever variable your dealing with i.e. $email.

Pending everything is right in your php.ini file (mainly global variables is on) then there is no reason for a form not to pass the variables directly to the ProcessScript.php.

I would try doing it this way....
File below is your form.html

<form name="ProcessScript" action="ProcessScript.php" method="post"> 
<input type="text" name="Name"> 
<input type="text" name="Email"> 
</form>

Below is your ProcessScript.php file
<? php
$msg .= "This person wants to join your newsletter list\n\n"
$msg .= "Name:\t$name\n";
$msg .= "E-mail:\t$email\n";

$recipient = "subscribe@mysite.com";
$subject = "Subscription Request";
$mailheaders = "From: \t $name<> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

try putting these two formats together and see if you get your variables through in your email.

drummel

Try this for your form:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>

<form action="ProcessScript.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="Name">NAME
<input type="text" name="Email" >EMAIL
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit User Request">
<input type="reset" value="Clear all form fields">

</form>

And this for your PHP:

<?
$message = <<<EOD
This person wants to join your newsletter list.
Name: $HTTP_POST_VARS[Name]
E-mail: $HTTP_POST_VARS[Email]
EOD;
$ToAddress = ('someone@something.com');
$FromAddress = $HTTP_POST_VARS[Email];
$Subject = "User Wants to Join Newsletter ";

$headers = "From: $FromAddress\r\n";
mail($ToAddress,$Subject,$message,$headers);

Good luck