[SOLVED] PHP form works in Fx, Chrome, Safari. Does not work in IE and Opera.

[Defiance]

Hello,

 

I have a simple contact form parsed and sent to an e-mail address by this:

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Message from website";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$phone_field = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Phone: $phone_field\n Message:\n $message";

echo "Message successfully sent.";
mail($to, $subject, $body);

} else {

echo "An error has occurred.";

}
?>

 

It works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

IE and Opera show the error message.

(latest versions of all browsers used)

 

Anyone know what's going on? Thanks.

[haku]

Show us your HTML - php is run on the browser, so the code on the server is the same regardless of which browser you run it on. But each browser interprets html its own way.

 

Are you using input type image?

[Defiance]

My apologies, here is the form:

 

<form method="post" action="mailer.php">
   <fieldset>
   Name: <br />
   <input type="text" name="name" size="25" />
   <br />
   E-Mail:
   <br />
   <input type="text" name="email" size="25" />
   <br />
   Phone:
   <br />
   <input type="text" name="phone" size="25" />
   <br />
   Comments:
   <br />
   <textarea rows="6" name="message" cols="50"></textarea>
   <br />
   <input type="image" src="images/submit.png" value="Send" name="submit" />
   </fieldset>
</form>

 

As you can see I am indeed using the image input type, is that the problem?

[Defiance]

Ah, seems like it is.  Anyway for this to work with an image defined as the submit button?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.form-image

 

You need to use $_POST['submit_x'] to get this to work in all browsers. You can also use a hidden field with a name and value of your choice and test for the hidden field variable name.

 

IE and Opera are actually just following the w3.org specification. The other browsers are doing their own thing outside of the specification.

[rhodesa]

I usually just test for the POST method:

 

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){

[Defiance]

Thanks all.