Basic Mailform not working on PHP 5 server?

[new2coding]

Hi There,

Any help would be really appriciated.

I have been using a mailform with my flash site for a while (PHP 4.4.1) , but now when I try the same mailform on another server running PHP 5, It wont send the emails !

do I need to update the code to allow this to run on PHP 5?

Here is the php mailform code:

	<?  

$adminaddress = "[e-mail]"; 
$siteaddress ="http://www.mountstar.com"; 
$sitename = "Mountstar"; 

//No need to change anything below ... 
// Gets the date and time from your server
$date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");

// Gets the IP Address
if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip";
else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

// Gets the POST Headers - the Flash variables
$action = $HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] ;
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'] ;
$name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] ;
$company_name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['company_name'] ;
$telephone = $HTTP_POST_VARS['telephone'] ;
$comments = $HTTP_POST_VARS['comments'] ;
$dropdown = $HTTP_POST_VARS['hear'] ;

//Process the form data!
// and send the information collected in the Flash form to Your nominated email address

if ($action == "send") {


	//SEND 1st MAIL TO ADMIN
	mail ("[e-mail]","Brookside/About page enquiry",
	"A visitor at $sitename has sent the following information\n
	Name: $name 
	Company Name: $company_name
	Telephone Number: $telephone
	Email: $email\n
	The visitor commented:
	------------------------------
	$comments
	$dropdown

	Logged Info :
	------------------------------
	Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
	Hostname: $ip
	IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
	Date/Time:  $date","FROM: [e-mail]" ) ; 


	//SEND 2ND MAIL TO ADMIN
	mail ("[e-mail]","Brookside/About page enquiry",
	"A visitor at $sitename has sent the following information\n
	Name: $name 
	Company Name: $company_name
	Telephone Number: $telephone
	Email: $email\n
	The visitor commented:
	------------------------------
	$comments
	$dropdown

	Logged Info :
	------------------------------
	Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
	Hostname: $ip
	IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
	Date/Time:  $date","FROM: [e-mail]" ) ; 




mail ("$email","Thank You for visiting the Mountstar Website", 
	"Hi $name,\n
	Thank you for your interest in Mountstar's products and/or services.\n
	We have received your enquiry and will respond within 8 business working hours.

	$sitename

	$siteaddress","FROM: [e-mail]") ; 

	//Confirmation is sent back to the Flash form that the process is complete
	$sendresult = "Thank you. You will receive a confirmation email shortly.";
	$send_answer = "answer=";
	$send_answer .= rawurlencode($sendresult);
	echo $send_answer;
} //


?>

If anyone can help me get to the bottom of this - I will be eternally grateful.
I could always ask the new host to downgrade to the version that worked (PHP 4.4.1) - but I'm not that confident I can get them to do that...

I also tried directing the link in flash code to the mailform on the old server, but this doesn't allow external scripting on a different server - so I need to try and get this mailform working on the new server... any ideas?

[gammaster]

From the php manual:

As of PHP 5.0.0, the long PHP predefined variable arrays may be disabled with the register_long_arrays directive.

Read: http://no2.php.net/reserved.variables

Maybe the use of $HTTP_POST_VARS is the problem.