[SOLVED] Simple Form won't POST...what?

[ars_moriendi]

Hi there. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a server-side reason this simple mail form might not be posting the form data? It loads the appropriate receiving page, but $_POST holds nothing...huh?

register_globals is on. Is there something I'm missing?

 

THE FORM:

            	<form name="contact-form" class="contact-form" action="contact.php" method="post" >
<div style="margin:.5em auto 1em auto;"><span><?php echo $msg;?></span></div>
				<label for="name"><span>Name:</span>
                    <input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="<?php echo @$_POST['name'];?>"/> 
                    </label>
                    <label for="email"><span>Email:</span>
                    <input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="<?php echo @$_POST['email'];?>"/></label>
                    <label for="subject"><span>Subject:</span>
                    <select name="subject" id="subject">
					<option value=""><i>Select a Subject</i></option>
                        <option value="coupon" <?php if (@$_POST['subject']=="coupon"){echo "SELECTED";}?>>I love coupons</option>
                        <option value="food" <?php if (@$_POST['subject']=="food"){echo "SELECTED";}?>>I love your food</option>
                    </select></label>
                    <input type="hidden" value="1" name="form_submitted" />
                    <label for="message"><span>Message:</span>
				<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="4"><?php echo @$_POST['message'];?></textarea>
                    </label>                    
                    <p> </p>
                    <input type="submit" value="Send" name=/>
                </form>

 

THE FORM PROCESSING:

     if (@$_POST['form_submitted'] != "") {   
   		echo "Form Submitted";
         if ($_POST['name'] != "") {   
             $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);   
             if ($_POST['name'] == "") {   
                 $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>';   
             }   
         } else {   
             $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>';   
         }   
   
         if ($_POST['email'] != "") {   
             $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);   
             if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {   
                 $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>";   
             }   
         } else {   
             $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>';   
         } 

	 if ($_POST['subject'] !=""){
             $_POST['subject'] = filter_var($_POST['subject'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);   
             if ($_POST['subject'] == "" ) {   
                 $errors .= 'Please select a subject for your message.<br/>';   
             }   
         } else {   
             $errors .= 'Please select a subject for your message.<br/>';   
         }   
   
         if ($_POST['message'] != "") {   
             $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);   
             if ($_POST['message'] == "") {   
                 $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>';   
             }   
         } else {   
             $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>';   
         }   
   
         if (!$errors) {   
	 echo "No Errors";
             $mail_to = '[email protected]';   
             $subject = 'New Mail';
             $message  = 'From: ' . $_POST['name'] . "\n";   
             $message .= 'Email: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\n";   
             $message .= 'Subject: ' . $_POST['subject'] . "\n";   
             $message .= "Message:\n" . $_POST['message'] . "\n\n";   
             mail($to, $subject, $message);   
   
             $msg = "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>";   
         } else {   
             $msg = '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>';   
         }   
     } 

 

Any ideas?

[gevans]

your suppressing errors everywhere, take @ out and code properly so you don't get errors, not just ignore them.

 

echo "Form Submitted";

 

do you really want to echo that before even checking the data, let alone trying to send the mail.

 

             $mail_to = '[email protected]';   
             $subject = 'New Mail';
             $message  = 'From: ' . $_POST['name'] . "\n";   
             $message .= 'Email: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\n";   
             $message .= 'Subject: ' . $_POST['subject'] . "\n";   
             $message .= "Message:\n" . $_POST['message'] . "\n\n";   
             mail($to, $subject, $message);   

 

$mail_to is not in the mail parameters

mail($to, $subject, $message);

should be

mail($mail_to, $subject, $message);

 

Also check the mail is sent

 

<?php
if(mail($mail_to, $subject, $message)) {
echo "mail sent";
} else {
echo "mail not sent";
}

[PFMaBiSmAd]

How do you know $_POST is empty, what are the symptoms? And are you developing and debugging your code on a system with error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON so that php would alert you to problems it finds?

[ars_moriendi]

your suppressing errors everywhere, take @ out and code properly so you don't get errors, not just ignore them.

I suppress them because it's simpler to do so than to have a bunch of conditional statements checking that those vars exist. It's not important enough to make my scripts difficult to read.

echo "Form Submitted";

 

do you really want to echo that before even checking the data, let alone trying to send the mail.

Nope, just throwing in a flag to let me know when the darned thing decides to work.

 

Of course I'll also finish validating that everything works once I figure out why my post data isn't showing up. Thanks for your notes.

[ars_moriendi]

How do you know $_POST is empty, what are the symptoms? And are you developing and debugging your code on a system with error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON so that php would alert you to problems it finds?

print_r($_POST) displays nothing but Array(). Yes, I have error reporting turned on, 6143. And this is only happening on production, not on my local machine, so I know it's a server-side issue.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Where exactly in the code was the print_r($_POST)? And are display_errors set to ON so that you would actually get errors output to the browser?

[ars_moriendi]

Where exactly in the code was the print_r($_POST)? And are display_errors set to ON so that you would actually get errors output to the browser?

print_r($_POST) wasn't in the code I posted, but when I include it, I do so on the second line, right under

<?php error_reporting(6143); 

 

in php.ini...

display_errors is On

error_reporting is 6135

[PFMaBiSmAd]

And how do you know that the php.ini is actually causing the setting to be on in your script?

 

We only see the information you provide in your posts. So far, there is no definitive information to for anyone to use to determine what is happening on your server.

 

I suspect that host has something in place that is affecting all external variables or your form or your form processing code is doing something that is php configuration or php version specific. You need to fully post both and you need to make sure what the error_reporting and display_errors settings actually are.

 

You also need to turn off register_globals because they could be overwriting your $_POST array if you have other variables by the same name in the remainder of the code (which is why you need to post all of the code that that makes up your form and your form processing page.)

 

Edit: and that just reminded me that the $_POST array will be empty if you exceed the post_max_size setting. What does a phpinfo(); statement show for post_max_size? Post exactly what it shows in the output.

[ars_moriendi]

And how do you know that the php.ini is actually causing the setting to be on in your script?

 

We only see the information you provide in your posts. So far, there is no definitive information to for anyone to use to determine what is happening on your server.

 

I suspect that host has something in place that is affecting all external variables or your form or your form processing code is doing something that is php configuration or php version specific. You need to fully post both and you need to make sure what the error_reporting and display_errors settings actually are.

 

You also need to turn off register_globals because they could be overwriting your $_POST array if you have other variables by the same name in the remainder of the code (which is why you need to post all of the code that that makes up your form and your form processing page.)

 

Edit: and that just reminded me that the $_POST array will be empty if you exceed the post_max_size setting. What does a phpinfo(); statement show for post_max_size? Post exactly what it shows in the output.

 

I was going to post the output of phpinfo(), but I just had a thought. My initial statement about this site being production was inaccurate. The site I referred to is actually a test-bed. The domain name redirects to a subdirectory within another account. Accessing the site under the original domain rather than the redirected domain fixed the error.

 

If I understood domain name redirection, I might be able to explain why exactly my perceived problem is not actually a problem, but who has time for that? You've all been very helpful. Now I'm going to close this thread and bid you all peaceful night.

[gevans]

I suppress them because it's simpler to do so than to have a bunch of conditional statements checking that those vars exist. It's not important enough to make my scripts difficult to read.

 

echo isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : '';

 

Does that really make your script harder to read??