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Please can someone assist I am new to the whole PHP thing and have simple submission form sample that is giving errors

<?php

#Receive user input
$feedback = "Email Address:"  = $_POST['email_address']."\r\n"
.= "Make: " $_POST['make']."\r\n"
.= "Model: "$_POST['model']."\r\n";
$email_address = $_POST['email_address'];



#Filter user input
function filter_email_header($form_field) {  

return preg_replace('/[nr|!/<>^$%*&]+/','',$form_field);
}

$email_address  = filter_email_header($email_address);

#Send email
$headers = "From: The best website on the planet";
$sent = mail('john@doe.co.za', 'Feedback Form Submission', $feedback, $headers);

#Thank user or notify them of a problem
if ($sent) {

?><html>
<head>
<title>Thank You</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Thank You</h1>
<p>Thank you for your feedback.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php

} else {

?><html>
<head>
<title>Something went wrong</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Something went wrong</h1>
<p>We could not send your feedback. Please try again.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
}
?>

The browser simply comes back and says that the URL is currently unable to handle the request

    CarolLonghurst

    $feedback = "Email Address:"  = $_POST['email_address']."\r\n"
.= "Make: " $_POST['make']."\r\n"
.= "Model: "$_POST['model']."\r\n";

    The second = should be a . and so should the subsequence .=s.

    $feedback = "Email Address:" . $_POST['email_address'] . "\r\n"
    . "Make: " $_POST['make'] . "\r\n"
    . "Model: "$_POST['model'] . "\r\n";

        PS, note that this forum works best when you wrap code blocks in [code]...[/code] tags, rather than using the </> button in the edit window that just wraps the text in a single "back-tick" characters. Yeah, wish the forum would update to make that a clickable option, but... 🤷 I edited your original post accordingly.

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