Having trouble with emailing forms.

_ltcanadaphpgt_

The following php script is used as a form action for the form script below. The problem is not that it won't send the email, but that the email does not include any of the variables listed in the $message text.

<?
$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];
$to="example@nobody.com";
$message="$name just filled in your comments form. They said:\n$comments\n\nTheir e-mail address was: $email";
if(mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n")) {
echo "Thanks for your comments.";
} else {
echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.";
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>

<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Visual Page 2.0 for Windows">
<TITLE>untitled</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<FORM ACTION="mail.php" METHOD="POST">
<P> Your Name: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="name" SIZE="25"><BR>
E-mail: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="email" SIZE="25"><BR>
<BR>
Comments<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="7" COLS="35"></TEXTAREA><BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit">
</FORM>

</BODY>

</HTML>

dalecosp

Seems a little weird. Put

print_r($_POST);

up top of the handler script and see what's in there ...

_ltcanadaphpgt_

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Well, I have figured out how to do it now and I'll post here what I have done

<?
@extract($_post);
$name=stripslashes($name);
$email=stripslashes($email);
$comments=stripslashes($comments);
$to="example@nobody.com";
$message="$name just filled in your comments form. They said:\n$comments\n\nTheir e-mail address was: $email";
if(mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n")) {
echo "Thanks for your comments.";
} else {
echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.";
}
?>

_ltcanadaphpgt_

How do I make it redirect once the form has been successfully emailed?

<?
@extract($_post);
$name=stripslashes($name);
$email=stripslashes($email);
$comments=stripslashes($comments);
$to="example@nobody.com";
$message="$name just filled in your comments form. They said:\n$comments\n\nTheir e-mail address was: $email";
if(mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n")) {
echo "Thanks for your comments.";
} else {
echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.";
}
?>

dalecosp

Since you've [man]echo/maned the result to the browser, if you want to redirect, you'll have to use an HTTP meta-refresh statement.

In PHP, I'd probably put the result message into a session or global variable, then use [man]header/man to redirect, and put the result message either in the next page, or in a Javascript alert() window. YMMV ...