Passing variables and mail() function

developer_dave

I have two questions. Question 1: How come the below code is not posting the variables to the mail.php page?

</form>

When the form navigages you to the page mail.php, and I try to echo the variables, it wont work. What do I need to change?

Next question:

How come this is not emailing getting sent to my email address, david@thegoodside.com?

<?php
echo "<html><body>";

$recipient = "david@thegoodside.com";
$subject = "Tutorial Submit";
$message = "name $name email $email url $url description $description";
$extra = "From: thegoodside.com";

mail ($recipient, $subject, $message, $extra);

echo "URL sent successfully and is pending approval...";

echo "</body></html>"

Thanks in advance for replys. :-)

nunomira

hi,

for the first question, you need to use php to make those values ($name, $email) appear:

<form method="post" action="mail.php?name=<?php echo $name; ?>&email=<?php echo $email; ?>"> 

<input type="text" name="name" /> 
<input type="text" name="email" /> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 


</form>

but I guess you could use hidden fields to send those variables, as you're already using a form

<form method="post" action="mail.php"> 

<input type="text" name="name" /> 
<input type="text" name="email" /> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
<input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" />

</form>

which allows you to send those values using POST, not by appending them to the url...

for the second question... : seems fine to me.

cafrow

k, I am going to try and help you, but I am a little confused about what you are trying to do so bare with me.

this is how your form should look like I think.

<form method="post" action="mail.php"> 

<input type="text" name="name" /> 
<input type="text" name="email" /> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 

</form>

This should help you get your varibles working, however I am not sure if your mail() function is complete or not. I believe it needs more info but I have not worked with it enough to know.

<?php 
echo "<html><body>"; 

// This is where we get the variables passed from the form.
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];


$recipient = "david@thegoodside.com"; 
$subject = "Tutorial Submit"; 
$message = "name " . $name . " email " .  $email . " url " . $url . " description " . $description"; 
$extra = "From: thegoodside.com"; 

mail ($recipient, $subject, $message, $extra); 

echo "URL sent successfully and is pending approval..."; 

echo "</body></html>" 
?>

When you send variables in a form you will need to grab them in the next page. the Action in the form that you where using was not working because PHP is server side only, the user enters his name and email client side, so the variables in your action do not get set. the $_REQUEST['Textbox NAME here'] will get you the value that the user entered in the Form.