PHP eMail form, PLEASE HELP..

[onzeon]

Hello my great PHP gurus, I have a question that might be simple for some of you geniuses. I have simple HTML email form getting sent by a PHP script and I cant get it to work right.
All I want is the get the email, name, subject and in the body I need to have 3 variables ( name (again) Telephone and details. This is the code I have so far:

HTML Form (relevant details only):

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="input" />
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" class="input" />
<input type="text" name="email" id="customer_mail" class="input" />
<input type="text" name="telephone" id="telephone" class="input" />
<textarea name="detail" cols="10" rows="10" id="detail"></textarea>

The PHP script is:

<?php
// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";
// Name
$name="$name";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='[e-mail]';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We received you message, thank you";
}
else {
echo "ERRO";
}
?>

I also tried this (with no success):

<?php
// Contact subject
$subject ="$assunto";

// Details
$body = $name;
$body .= "/n";
$body .= "Telephone : ".$telephone."/n";
$body .= "Subject : ".$subject."/n";
$body .= "Details : ".$details;

// Name
$name="$name";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='[e-mail]';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$header,$body);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We received you message, thank you";
}
else {
echo "ERRO";
}
?>

CAN ANYONE HELP, PLEASE..
Thank you very much.

Cleve.

[bradgrafelman]

Why do you have lines like:

$subject ="$subject"; 

? You might as well try telling PHP that 1 + 1 is equal to two.

In addition, $subject is an undefined variable; perhaps you meant to use $POST or $GET instead? See this manual page for more info: [man]variables.external[/man].

[onzeon]

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, I should ask you PHP gurus a tutorial on how to build the script I'm trying to build. I've been at this for days, and the more I read the more confusing it gets. What I want to achieve is: I have a XHTML form with 5 user input fields - These are:

name
subject
cust_email
telephone
details

I need to create a PHP script that will on user click - submit a email that has this format:

From= cust_email

Subject= "Customer requested information on" +subject

eMail body= name + "requests information on" + subject
/n
+ details
/n
+ "Contact information"
/n
+telephone
+email.

So the body would look some how like this:

Jane Smith requests information on Botox

Hello I'm interested in botox injections please contact me with pricing and availability. Thank you.

Contact information.
[phone]
[e-mail]

Can you or anyone of the users in this wonderful forum HELP. I'm a print designer and I can assist you guys with anything you may need in print. But web is all to new and I'm struggling.
Thank you, thank you very much.