E-Mail Sent ---- but no content !!!

hiewall

I'm having a problem with my flash based contact form that uses PHP.The contact form loads in fine, it allows me to type my name, email, phone and message and then send.
It even responds saying that the function worked.The email sends but when I open it up in my inbox none of the information is there. My labels are there from the PHP file but, none of the information I entered into the form shows up. The same code works fine on another host. Could it be the PHP Version ???

The one that does not work is 4.0.6.
The one that works is 5.1.4

Here are the codes, which I've used:

Flash -----
send button action script:

 on(release) {

parent.getURL("contact.php","blank","GET");
parent.inp1="";
parent.inp2="";
parent.inp3="";
parent.inp4="";

}

PHP Code:
<?php

$your_name = $_GET['inp1']; 
$your_email = $_GET['inp2']; 
$your_phone = $_GET['inp3'];
$your_message = $_GET['inp4']; 


$recipient .= "xxx@xxxxx.com";
$subject .= "Inquiry from Web Page";
$headers .= "From:" . $your_name . " <" . $your_email . ">\n"; 
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'; 

$content = "<html><head><title>Contact letter</title></head><body><br>"; 

$content .= "Name: <b>" . $your_name . "</b><br>"; 
$content .= "E-mail: <b>" . $your_email . "</b><br>"; 
$content .= "Phone: <b>" . $your_phone . "</b><br><hr><br>";
$content .= $your_message; 
$content .= "<br></body></html>"; 

mail($recipient,$subject,$content,$headers);

?>
<html>
<body bgcolor="#282E2C">
<div align="center" style="margin-top:60px;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:11px;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">
Your message was sent. Thank you.
</div>
</body>
</html>
<script>resizeTo(300, 300)</script>

If any one has any suggestion what to check in order to make this form work, please let me know. This is for my own website.

NogDog

Does your form use the "post" method or the "get" method. If it uses the "post" method (which would be the better choice, anyway), then you need to reference the form data from the $POST array instead of the $GET array.

[EDIT] I just noticed that it appears you are using a Flash form or something, apparently using the GET method? Anyway, it might be useful to stick some debug code in your script and echo out the $GET (or $POST) values you are attempting to use and see if they are actually set with the expected values.

hiewall

I am new to PHP. Can you give me the code to do this.

Thanks

NogDog

printf("<pre>GET:\n%s\n\nPOST:\n%s</pre>\n", print_r($_GET, 1), print_r($_POST, 1));

hiewall

I put in the code -- this is what i got back:

Warning: Wrong parameter count for print_r() in /home/sites/site4/web/contact.php on line 8

GET:

POST:

NogDog

Ugh. Sounds like you have an old version of PHP running (older than PHP 4.3). Do this, instead:

echo "<pre>GET:\n";
print_r($_GET);
echo "\nPOST:\n";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>\n";

hiewall

OK --- that worked. It just says GET : using ver 4.0.6

It gives me the values in the array -- using ver. 5.1.4

As I mentioned in my post ----- the version of PHP that it does not work on is 4.0.6

It works fine with 5.1.4.

Do I need to change my code to work with the old version ?????

NogDog

Aha! $GET and $POST were introduced in PHP 4.1.0. You will need to use $HTTP_GET_VARS instead (or $HTTP_POST_VARS for post data).

I'm sure I'm telling you nothing new at this point, but PHP 4.0.6 is a really, really old version. :eek:

hiewall

Thanks for the help !!!!

I will call the hosting co. and tell them to upgrade their PHP.

NogDog

Just FYI, you might want to point out to your hosting service that support for PHP4 terminates at the end of this year, so if they are going to upgrade at all, then they really should go for PHP 5.2.x rather than moving up to the latest PHP 4 version.

hiewall

OK --- thanks ---- will do !!!