PHP form generating email with blank fields

mcolomy

This is my first shot at creating a form which processes using php. I used an online tutorial from tutvid.com

Everything works - except for the most important part - when my client receives the email generated by my php script, it comes across with all of the info missing, like this:

Bride Email:
Name:
Bride Phone Number:
Date:
Groom Name:
Groom Email:
Groom Phone:

(where it should have the actual information after the ":" ) I've verified that my form fields are named correctly, etc.

I don't know where to go from here. I've re-written the code 3 times, and have been searching for an answer for days... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hate feeling like a novice 🙂 but I AM! lol

Here is my code:

<?php

/* Subject and Email Variables */
	$emailSubject = 'New Client Info';
	$webMaster = 'example@example.com';


/* Gathering data variables */

$bname = $_POST ['bname'];
$bemail = $_POST ['bemail'];
$bphone = $_POST ['bphone'];
$date = $_POST ['date'];
$gname = $_POST ['gname'];
$gemail = $_POST ['gemail'];
$gphone = $_POST ['gphone'];

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Bride Email: $bemail <br>
Name: $bname <br>
Bride Phone Number: $bphone <br>
Date: $date <br>
Groom Name: $gname <br>
Groom Email: $gemail <br>
Groom Phone: $gphone <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $bemail\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

/*results rendered as html */

$theResults = <<<EOD
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Nashville-Weddings</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
body {
	background-color: #000000;
	background-image: url(../Couple.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
.style1 {color: #FFFFFF}
a:link {
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:visited {
	color: #FFFFCC;
}
a:hover {
	color: #FFFFCC;
}
.style3 {
	color: #000000;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 16;
}
-->
</style></head>
<body>
<!-- ImageReady Slices (Nashville-Weddings.psd) -->
<table id="Table_01" width="1280" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
		<td width="288" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="112" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="248" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="138" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="96" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="127" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="271" height="0" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
		<td width="0" height="0"></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="288" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="112" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="248" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="138" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="96" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="127" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
  <td width="271" height="142">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="0" height="142" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="288" height="38">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="112" height="38" bgcolor="#000000"><div align="center" class="style1"><a href="../index.html">HOME</a></div></td>
		<td width="248" height="38" background="meet.html" bgcolor="#000000"><div align="center" class="style1"><a href="meet.html">MEET BILL COVINGTON</a></div></td>
	  <td width="138" height="38" background="services.html" bgcolor="#000000"><div align="center" class="style1"><a href="services.html" class="style1">SERVICES</a></div></td>
	  <td width="96" height="38" bgcolor="#000000"><div align="center"><span class="style1"><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></span></div></td>
	  <td width="127" height="38" background="contact.html" bgcolor="#000000"><div align="center"><span class="style1"><a href="contact.html">CONTACT</a></span></div></td>
	  <td width="271" height="38">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="0" height="38" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="288" height="828">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="112" height="828">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="609" height="828" colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" background="../images/Nashville-Weddings_17.gif"><blockquote>
		  <pre>&nbsp;</pre>
		  <p>&nbsp;</p>
		  <p align="center" class="style3">Thank you.</p>
		  <p align="center" class="style3">Your information has been received.</p>
		  <p align="center" class="style3">We will contact you shortly. </p>
	  </blockquote></td>
<td width="271" height="828">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="0" height="828" nowrap="nowrap"></td>
	</tr>
</table>
<!-- End ImageReady Slices -->
</body>
</html>
EOD;

mail( "example@example.com", "New Client Info", $body, "From: $bemail" );


?>

bike5

Not sure if this matters but try removing the space between $POST and ['bname'] on all of them. so $POST ['bname'] would be $_POST['bname'].

The other question would be is, is the for "posting" to this code directly? What does your starting <form> tag look like?

mcolomy

I'll try that, here are the first few lines of my form code:

bike5

The code you posted is on the file "form-process.php"?

mcolomy

Yes, that is correct.

bike5

put a "print_r($_POST);" at the top of the code, fill the form out and submit it, what does the print_r show on the screen then?

mcolomy

Does this go before the "<form"

(thank you so much by the way)

bike5

No, it goes on the page your form is submitting to. like:

<?php
print_r($_POST);
/ Subject and Email Variables /
$emailSubject = 'New Client Info';
$webMaster = 'example@example.com';

mcolomy

Now when my confirmation page loads I get the following string of text at the top of my page

Array ( [bname] => a [bemail] => a [bphone] => a [date] => a [gname] => a [gemail] => a [gphone] => a [Submit2] => Submit )

and I didn't receive the email that should've been generated.

mcolomy

Wait ! I got the email - WITH INFO!!

So now the only problem is that string of text on my confirmation page.
tysvm!!!