Having trouble with form sending blank email

[Hades666]

Hi there, I apologise if this post is not within forum protocol but I am desperate and in need of help!!

I have a contact form that emails the details direct to me and for some reason it has started emailing a blank email now. The only difference is that the server is now running PHP 5.1.4.... I THINK, and bear in mind I am a bit rubbish at all this, that I have got it down to the following code that could be causing the problem. Can anyone help?

[code]function mail_it($content, $subject, $email, $recipient) {
  global $attachment_chunk, $attachment_name, $attachment_type, $attachment_sent, $bcc;

  $ob = "----=_OuterBoundary_000";
  $ib = "----=_InnerBoundery_001";
 
  $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers .= "From: ".$email."\n";
  $headers .= "To: ".$recipient."\n";
  $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\n";
  if ($bcc) $headers .= "Bcc: ".$bcc."\n";
  $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
  $headers .= "X-Mailer: DT Formmail".VERSION."\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n\tboundary=\"".$ob."\"\n";
 
         
  $message  = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";
  $message .= "\n--".$ob."\n";
  $message .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n\tboundary=\"".$ib."\"\n\n";
  $message .= "\n--".$ib."\n";
  $message .= "Content-Type: text/plain;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n\n";
  $message .= $content."\n\n";
  $message .= "\n--".$ib."--\n";
  if ($attachment_name && !$attachment_sent) {
      $message .= "\n--".$ob."\n";
      $message .= "Content-Type: $attachment_type;\n\tname=\"".$attachment_name."\"\n";
      $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
      $message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"".$attachment_name."\"\n\n";
      $message .= $attachment_chunk;
      $message .= "\n\n";
      $attachment_sent = 1;
  }
  $message .= "\n--".$ob."--\n";
 
  mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers);
}[/code]

And

[code]// prepare the content
$content = parse_form($HTTP_POST_VARS, $sort);[/code]

[ronverdonk]

Is it possible that your server no longer allows the so called 'register_long_arrays' for PHP5 in the php.ini definitions? When that is turned off the $HTTP_POST_VARS don't work any longer and you'll have to use $_POST instead.

Ronald   8)

[Hades666]

Thanks Ronald, I will try that. I knew there was something that needed to be changed about that but I wasn't sure what and I am still learning about all this. I had just managed to get a little bit of knowledge and then it all goes and changes. Darn it.

[kenrbnsn]

The upgrade probably also disabled register_globals. Which is the more likely cause for the OPs problem.

Ken

[Hades666]

I changed the code and it worked. Should I be looking to turn these things on instead of changing the code?

[ronverdonk]

Don't change your ini options to suit your programs in this case. Anyway, $HTTP_POST_VARS is deprecated. So always use $_POST instead.

Ronald   8)