mailing the form with its contents using PHP

[rosy]

Hi,
I tried using simple php mail Its working successfully for me.
Now , i tried to send the form and its contents through mail.
I have a php form (form1.php) and if i submit the form, it opens the form2.php showing the output of form1.php.
form2.php i have a submit button, if hit the submit the form details along with form should be emailed and redirect to someotherform.php.
I tried using

<?PHP
$subject = "Testing to send form with contents";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "From:$from";

//open buffer
ob_start();
//send page content to buffer
require("form2.php");
$to = "[e-mail]";
//get contents from buffer
$message =ob_get_contents();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
header("location:someotherform.php");
//close buffer, leave content to display on next page
ob_end_flush();
?>

I could able to get only the empty form(form2.php) but not its contents.
I am not storing the data entered by user in form2.php.
Is it possible to send the form without storing its value in table?
How can i do this? Please help.
Thanks.

[Houdini]

Once you pass form data (nowadays it would be $POST[something]) to another page that processes that data it will be unavailable after that page, so you need to take the form data that you pass to the processing page and convert it to session data which will last as long as the users maintains the session. So to offer some help then you will need to first start a session using session_start() then make your form variables session variables and use these variables in subsequent php pages do achieve your goal. As you will see if you assign your form or $POST[something] variables to $_SESSION[something] it will be passed so long as you first open a session on that page.

A small example would be as below

session_start();
$_SESSION[to]=$_POST[to];
$_SESSION[from]=$_POST[from];
$_SESSION[etcetera]=$_POST[etcetera];
...rest of your form processing data goes below, now that you have your form variables converted to SESSION variables.