Trying to mail a submitted form...

[kelharis]

Hello everyone,

 

I am creating a short little form that will email the submitted information to someone using MS Outlook mail.  I have tested my code and it will email the correct email, email the correct subject, but I have an error somewhere in the "message" section.  I have probably just made some idiotic mistake as usual, but I can't find it.

 

here is the code, the message in the email just reads as the variable $message is written, i.e. "$name /n $email /n $school /n $diet"  Where am I going wrong?

 

<?php

  $name = $_REQUEST ['name'] ;
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $school = $_REQUEST['school'] ;
  $diet = $_REQUEST['diet'] ;
  $message = '$name /n $email /n $school /n $diet';
  mail( "XXXXXXXXX", "Subject: Leadership Seminar Signup",
  $message, "From: $email" );
  
  
//if "email" is not filled out, display the form

  echo "<center><form method='post' action='pages/leadershipform.php'>
  Name: <input name='name' type='text' /><br />
  Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
  School: <input name='school' type='text' /><br />
  Special Dietary Needs:
  <input name='diet' type='text' />
  <br />
  <input type='submit' />
  </form>";

?>

[redarrow]

sorry re edited

<?php


$name="redarrow";
$email="redarrow@redarrow.com";
$school="phpfreaks";
$diet="fat lol!";

$message1 = "$name \n $email \n $school \n $diet";



$message2 = ' '.$name.' \n '.$email.' \n '.$school.' \n '.$diet.' ';

echo "$message2 <br><br> $message2";

?>

[Philip]

When variables and other certain values (like \n) are in single quotes they will not be parsed, just read how you see them.

 

In other words,

$message = '$name /n $email /n $school /n $diet';

should be:

$message = :"$name /n $email /n $school /n $diet";