Tim Garrett Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Hello fellow coders This seems a perfect place to hopefully get some help. i have been trying to figure this out for 4 hours now and still going!im trying to work out when a user pushes my submit button it email out the info that has been inputted i to the form from a user { i v been over so many different tutorials. just cant seem to get it to work!!! please please please can someone have a quick look at my code and see where im going wrong. about an hour ago i did manage to get it to email to my address but no info that was inputted into form got emailed to me. really appreciate this in advance. <?php $to = "admin@qualityhub.co.nz"; // $subject = "Incident report"; // $firstname = $_POST['firstname'] ; $lastname = $_POST['lastname'] ; $jobtitle = $_POST['jobtitle'] ; $email = $_POST['email'] ; $mobile = $_POST['mobile'] ; $date= $_POST['date'] ; $time = $_POST['time'] ; $describetheincident= $_POST['describetheincident'] ; $describeimmediateactions= $_POST['describeimmediateactions'] ; $describeanycontributingfactors= $_POST[describeanycontributingfactors'] ; $message = "reportersfirstname: $firstname <br />reporterslastname: $lastname <br />jobtitle: $jobtitle <br />email: $email <br />mobile: $mobile <br />date: $date <br />Time: $time <br />date: $date <br />time: $time <br />DescribetheIncident: $DescribetheIncident <br />DescribeImmediateActions:$DescribeImmediateActions <br />DescribeAnyContributingFactors: $DescribeAnyContributingFactors <br /> $headers = "From: $email"; //header that states the email address of user- leave this $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ; //send the whole thing and report to code below ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" /> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <link href="pics/homescreen.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" /> <meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" /> <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="javascript/functions.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <title>Submission Status </title> </head> <body> <div id="topbar"> <div id="title"> Thank you!! </div> <div id="leftnav"> <a href="index.html">Back</a></div> </div> <div id="content"> <ul class="pageitem"> <li class="textbox"> <p><div align="center"><?php if($sent) {print "Your mail was sent successfully"; } else {print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }?></p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" /> <meta content="index,follow" name="robots" /> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <link href="pics/homescreen.gif" rel="apple-touch-icon" /> <meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" /> <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" /> <script src="javascript/functions.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <title>Auckland distric health board</title> <meta content="iPod,iPhone,Webkit,iWebkit,Website,Create,mobile,Tutorial,free" name="keywords" /> <meta content="now completly styles thanks to css these form elements are lighter and easier to use than ever before." name="description" /> </head> <body> <div id="topbar"> <div id="leftnav"> </a><a href="index.html">ADHB HOME</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <form> <ul class="pageitem"> <li class="textbox"><span class="header">Incident infomation</span>Please fill in as much detail as possible for you incident.</li> </ul> </ul> <span class="graytitle">Reporters Name</span> <ul class="pageitem"> <li class="smallfield"><span class="firstname">First Name</span><input placeholder="firstname" type="text" /> </li> <li class="smallfield"><span class="lastname">Last Name</span><input placeholder="lastname" type="text" /> <li class="smallfield"><span class="jobtitle">Reporter job title</span><input placeholder="job title" type="text" /> <li class="smallfield"><span class="email">Email</span><input placeholder="email" type="text" /> <li class="smallfield"><span class="mobile">Phone </span><input placeholder="mobile" type="text" /> </ul> </ul> </ul> <span class="graytitle"> Details of the Incident</span> <ul class="pageitem"> <li class="smallfield"><span class="date">Incident Date</span><input placeholder="date" type="text" /> </li> <li class="smallfield"><span class="time">Incident Time</span><input placeholder="time" type="text" /> </li> </ul> </ul> <span class="graytitle">Description of the Incident</span> <ul class="pageitem"> <li class="textbox"><span class="describetheincident">Describe the Incident:</span><textarea name="TextArea" rows="4"></textarea></li> <li class="textbox"><span class="describeimmediateactions">Describe Immediate Actions:</span><textarea name="TextArea" rows="4"></textarea></li> <li class="textbox"><span class="describeanycontributingfactors">Describe Any Contributing Factors:</span><textarea name="TextArea" rows="4"></textarea></li> </ul> <form method="post" action="sendmail.php"> <input type="submit" /> </form> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <a href="http://qualityhub.co.nz">Powered by Qualityhub.co.nz</a></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Your first code chunk has a parse error. You can tell where it is just by looking at the syntax coloring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Garrett Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Whats missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 HINT: It's in here ---> $_POST[describeanycontributingfactors'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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