[RESOLVED] data from form not sending

[onejesse]

Hello all,

I'm having an issue with receiving form data to my mail server.

It's very basic, but I need some experienced eyes on it.
It sends to the recipient (me) correctly, I receive the sender info in the email.
When sent, it directs the viewer to the page I want.

in the body of the email, I get this :

From:
E-Mail:
Message:
period : Within 1 month

It appears the "period" field is working correctly, however, some other fields are missing like the name and type field. It also looks like the message, and from fields carry no data over. In other words, I type in a message and click submit, message doesn't not appear in the email. Maybe the order has something to do with it, not sure but if anyone could take a look I would appreciate it.

Thanks

PHP Code:

<?php 
$to = "[e-mail]"; 
$subject = "Contact Us"; 

    $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
    $tel = $_REQUEST['tel'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$type = $_REQUEST['type'];
$period = $_REQUEST['period']; 
    $message = $_REQUEST['message'];

    $message = 'name : '.$name."\r\n";
    $message = 'tel : '.$tel."\r\n";
    $message = 'email : '.$email."\r\n";
    $message = 'type : '.$type."\r\n";
    $message = 'message : '.$message."\r\n";
    $message = 'period : '.$period."\r\n";

$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Message:\n $message"; 
$headers = "From: $email"; $sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ; 
$name = $_REQUEST['name']; 
header ('location: thanks.html') ;
?> 

[bradgrafelman]

Welcome to PHPBuilder! When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags (instead of the generic CODE tags) as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

As for your problem, what does the $_REQUEST array look like when your form is submitted (hint:.use [man]print_r/man)? What does your form even look like?

[onejesse]

Hello, and thanks for the reply.

If I understand this, To troubleshoot I should check what this code is doing by using Print()). I want to print, but not actually print, but rather Print_r() to return the perimeter. In the parentheses is what i want to "print", which in my case should be how the form data is collected, ie

$_REQUEST

, ? So I should input in to the code,

Print_r($_REQUEST)

and it will return all associated w/

$_REQUEST

Or would this work?

$data = array(
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
        $tel = $_REQUEST['tel'];
	$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
	$type = $_REQUEST['type'];
	$period = $_REQUEST['period']; 
        $message = $_REQUEST['message'];
) ;
print_r($data);

As for the form its self, yea, that might be useful!

http://totalcomputer.us/contact.html

[onejesse]

Array ( [name] => jason [tel] => 2035012356 [email] => [e-mail] [type] => virus [message] => i would like to test this message field [period] => ASAP [button] => Send Request [utma] => 176102567.1604003067.1300796723.1300817354.1300877748.5 [utmz] => 176102567.1300796723.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none) [utmb] => 176102567.4.10.1300877748 [utmc] => 176102567 [logintheme] => [cprelogin] => no [cpsession] => totalcomfeE7lbo1Wr0GC3LkhShIseL55aQk35ocLutwIVTmWCDJENgogPWmqs0TEfugmnBg [langedit] => [lang] => [webmailsession] => totalcoms70x8Tuqphm4wHxViItbJmHQIKvHHDOQVB7_HT6Uy8hn89S3euZhudXhcZ2O1_DG [webmailrelogin] => no [roundcube_sessid] => 1750c8a277589bdc1c55e1f448b0700d )

The $REQUEST array looks fine, but a second look at the $message code looks like I am only requesting the "Period" Data.

        $message = 'name : '.$name."\r\n";
        $message = 'tel : '.$tel."\r\n";
        $message = 'email : '.$email."\r\n";
        $message = 'type : '.$type."\r\n";
        $message = 'message : '.$message."\r\n";
        $message = 'period : '.$period."\r\n";

Something here is missing, ok, think I got it....

        $message = 'name : '.$name."\r\n" .
        $message = 'tel : '.$tel."\r\n" .
        $message = 'email : '.$email."\r\n" .
        $message = 'type : '.$type."\r\n" .
        $message = 'message : '.$message."\r\n" .
        $message = 'period : '.$period."\r\n";

I removed the ";" with "." until the last bit of data, I got it.

Thank you for your help, I learned a new command here today, "Print_())", this will come in handy.