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 = "[email protected]"; // $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> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228546-email-my-form-help/ 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. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228546-email-my-form-help/#findComment-1178405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Garrett Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Whats missing? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228546-email-my-form-help/#findComment-1178408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 HINT: It's in here ---> $_POST[describeanycontributingfactors'] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228546-email-my-form-help/#findComment-1178411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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