[RESOLVED] Form not posting to confirm.php

[theprofession]

The problem I am having is that what ever is posted in the form.html does not transfer over to the confirm.php and the email comes up blank.

form.html

<form action="confirm.php" method="POST" >

  <div align="center"> 

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

  <tr> 

    <td height="71"> 

      <div align="center"> 
        <font size="6"><b>Customer Enquiry Form:</b></font>          </div>        </td>

  </tr>

</table>

<hr width="400" size="3">

<div align="center">

  <input type="hidden" name="recipient">

  <input type="hidden"

  name="subject" value="Web Enquiry">

  <input type="hidden" name="redirect"

  value="[e-mail]">

</div>

  </div>

  <div align="center"> 

<table width="37%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" class="FormCSS" align="center" height="608">
  <tr> 
    <td width="33%"> 
      <div align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Name:</font></div>        </td>
    <td width="67%"> 
      <input type="text" size="30"

maxlength="50" name="realname">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Organization:</font></div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <input type="text" size="30" maxlength="50"

name="organisation">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Address:</font>          </div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <textarea cols="30" name="address_line_1" rows="5"></textarea>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left">PostCode:</div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="15" name="postcode">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left">Telephone:</div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <input type="text" size="30"

maxlength="50" name="telephone">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left">Fax:</div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <input type="text" size="30" maxlength="50"

name="fax">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%"> 
          <div align="left">Email:</div>        </td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <input type="text" size="30" maxlength="50" name="email">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td width="33%">Type of enquiry:<br>
          (e.g. graphics, websites)</td>
        <td width="67%"> 
          <textarea

name="text" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td colspan="2" height="2"> 
          <div align="center"> <font color="#EABB00"> 
            <input type="submit" name="send form" value="Submit Enquiry">
            <input

type="reset" name="clear form" value="Reset Form">
            </font></div>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>

  </div>

  <div align="center">
    <div align="right">
      <div align="left">

    <c></c></div>
</div>
  </div>
</form>
<div align="center"><c><a href="index.php"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3"><b>If 
  you do not wish to complete the form Click here to return to the Index Page</b></font></a></c> 

confirm.php

<?php
 if ((!$realname) or (!$telephone) && (!$email))  {

echo "Please Enter a Contact Name and either a Telephone Number or an 
	  Email address for Contact purpose's.
	  Thank You";
echo "<p>";
echo "Please use the 'Back' button to continue.";
echo "</p>";
echo "<a href='/~dpaul/index.php?id=form' onclick='self.history.back();'>Back</a>";
exit;
} 


$message = "Name: $realname\n\n"."Organisation: $organisation\n\n"."Address:\n$address_line_1\n\n"."Post Code: $postcode\n\n"."Telephone: $telephone\n\n"."Fax: $fax\n\n"."Email: $email\n\n".
"Message: \n"."$text";


mail("[e-mail]","$subject","$message","From:Form.$email\r\nReply-to:$email");
echo "<p>Thank you for completing our contact form. Your details have been forwarded and we will be in contact within 2 working days.</p>";
echo "<p>From: $email</P>";
echo "<p>Subject: $subject</p>";
echo "<p>Message: </p>";
echo "<p>";
echo "$text";
echo "</p><a href='index.php'><b>Return to the Index Page</b></a>";
?>

[bradgrafelman]

Try using $POST to access the POST'ed data. For more information on $POST and the other superglobal arrays, see this manual page: [man]variables.predefined[/man].

EDIT: Also, I've replaced the e-mail address from your code snippet with "[e-mail]" so that you're not hammered by spammers. In the future, I would avoid using actual e-mail addresses.

[theprofession]

ok i did that, and changed the code around

<?php

$to = "(email removed by mod)";
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['email']."\r\n";
//$mail =  @mail($to,$_POST['subject'],$_POST['text'], $_POST['email'],$headers);

mail("$to", $_POST['subject'], $_POST['text'], "From:Form.$email\r\nReply-to:$email");
echo "<p>Thank you for completing our contact form. Your details have been forwarded and we will be in contact within 2 working days.</p>";
echo "<p>From: ";
echo $_POST['email'];
echo "</p>";
echo "<p>Subject:";
echo $_POST['subject'];
echo "</p>";
echo "<p>Fax";
echo $_POST['fax'];
echo "</P>";
echo "<p>Message: </p>";
echo "<p>";
echo $_POST['text'];
echo "</p><a href='index.php'><b>Return to the Index Page</b></a>";

?>

MOD EDIT: Might not want to use your real e-mail address... spammers like to steal those. --bradgrafelman

[bradgrafelman]

1. You define $headers, but never use this variable. Any reason for that?

2. You use $email though this variable was never set.

3. So... now that you've changed the code... what happens?

[theprofession]

I get the email and I get the text area text, but nothing else. I just see the text but it does not say which field it belongs to.

[bradgrafelman]

Then you need to add that to your e-mail message.

Looking at the manual page for mail() ([man]function.mail[/man]), you'll see that the 3rd parameter for the function is the e-mail message's body text. So, since you only specified $_POST['text'], that's all that will be sent.

[theprofession]

Thanks I got it to work the way that I want it to work.

[bradgrafelman]

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