Form that should be simple not working!

keefleef · February 10, 2011

Hi all,

I'm new to php and so worked my way through this tut on youtube to get the idea of sending emails from online form fields using php...

Seems to be working fine apart from it grabbing the information entered by the user. So I'm getting blank fields in the email coming through that look like this:

================

Email:

Name:

Phone:

Budget:

No. Travelers:

Comments:

================

Can anyone see what's missing to make this work? Text from php file and html of form field page below.....

Help much appreciated!

=====PHP======="contactformprocess.php"==================


<?php

/* define subject and send info */

$emailSubject = 'WEB ORDER';
$sendTo = 'me@myemail.com';

/* gathering data variables */

$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$phoneField = $_POST['phone'];
$budgetField = $_POST['budget'];
$travelersField = $_POST['travelers'];
$commentsField = $_POST['comments'];
$newsletterField = $_POST['newsletter'];

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Email: $email <br>
Name: $name <br>
Phone: $phone <br>
Budget: $budget <br>
No. Travelers: $travelers <br>
Comments: $comments <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($sendTo, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

/* results as html */

$results = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #f1f1f1;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<div>
  <div align="left">THANKS MESSAGE!!!</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
EOD;

echo "$results";

?>

=========html form page=========================


<html>
<head>
<title>Form from Tutvid.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #f1f1f1;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
#formHolder {
width: 800px;
background-color: e1e1e1;
}
-->
</style>

</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<div id="formHolder">
  <form name="form1" method="post" action="contactformprocess.php">
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
      <tr>

        <td><label for="email">
            <div align="right">Email Address:</div>
          </label>
        </td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="35" maxlength="100">
        </div></td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td><label for="name">
            <div align="right">Name:</div>
          </label>
        </td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="35" maxlength="80">
        </div></td>

      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><label for="phone">
            <div align="right">Phone:</div>
          </label>
        </td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="35" maxlength="12">

        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">Budget:</div></td>
        <td><p align="left">
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="budget" value="lessthan1000" id="budget_0">
            Less than $1,000</label>

          <br>
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="budget" value="1000to5000" id="budget_1">
            $1,000 - $5,000</label>
          <br>
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="budget" value="5000to10000" id="budget_2">
            $5,000 - $10,000</label>

          <br>
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="budget" value="10000to25000" id="budget_3">
            $10,000 - $25,000</label>
          <br>
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="budget" value="25000andup" id="budget_4">
            $25,000 and up</label>

          <br>
        </p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="travelers">How many People?</label>
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="left">

          <select name="travelers" id="travelers">
            <option>Choose...</option>
            <option value="1">1</option>
            <option value="2">2</option>
            <option value="3">3</option>
            <option value="4">4</option>

            <option value="5">5</option>
            <option value="6">6</option>
            <option value="7">7</option>
            <option value="8">8</option>
            <option value="9">9</option>
            <option value="10">10</option>

            <option value="10+">10+</option>
          </select>
        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="comments">Comments:</label>
        </div></td>

        <td><div align="left">
          <textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="26" rows="5"></textarea>
        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right"></div></td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="newsletter" type="checkbox" id="newsletter" value="subscribeme">

          <label for="newsletter">Subscribe to FREE online newsletter?</label>
        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="clear"></label>
          <input type="reset" name="clear" id="clear" value="Reset Form">
        </div></td>

        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="submit"></label>
          <div align="left">
            <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send Email!">
          </div>
        </div></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </form>

  <p align="center">  </p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Pikachu2000 · February 10, 2011

When posting code, please enclose it within the forum's

 . . .

BBCode tags.

keefleef · February 11, 2011

Have now got it working by removing the 'field' from the post vbls....

So instead of

$emailField = $_POST['email'];

they read

$email = $_POST['email'];

Seems obvious that the vbls should match, but wondering why the tutorial changed them?!

gizmola · February 11, 2011

Probably the names were changed because there should be an intermediary step where the raw values were "cleansed" to insure that they didn't include anything malicious like javascript code.

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