Requesting multiple values to set to a variable

[Wireframe]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to this forum and I came here looking for some help with PHP. I've just started

getting into PHP and you guys are probably a smile ahead.

 

So basically, I have some inputs and want them to be sent to my email in a basic layout shown below.

 

Inputs:

Title = _title
Forum Name = _forumname
Name = _irlname
Age = _age

 

I want the email to be sent to me like:

 

Email Title
---------------
Forum Name: TextGiven
Real Life Name: TextGiven
Age: TextGiven

 

Here is my current code which titles the email correctly, but I want to figure out how

to make $message set to the example email I showed above.

 

<?php 
$to = "******@*********.net";
$subject = $_REQUEST['_title'];
$headers = "From: ***** Applicant \r\n"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
  . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$message =  $_REQUEST['_forumname' & '_irlname'];  <--- Part I want fixed


if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) 
{
     echo 'MAIL SENT'; 
} else { 
     echo 'MAIL FAILED';
} 
?> 

 

I have this code, and it works. But I want $message = "" to make the message contain not just the

forum name, but as well as the name, age, and all other inputs I want.

[codebyren]

For an email message with so few lines and variables, the simplest way to do this is probably to build the message line by line.  Something like:

 

<?php
// The \r\n indicates a new line or else your message will render as a single line
// The period before the '=' sign on all except the first line says append this value to the current value of $message
$message = "{$_REQUEST['_title']} \r\n";
$message .= "--------------------- \r\n";
$message .= "Forum Name: {$_REQUEST['_forumname']} \r\n";
$message .= "Real Life Name: {$_REQUEST['irlname']} \r\n";
$message .= "Age: {$_REQUEST['_age']}  \r\n";
?>

 

You could also look into what's known as herdoc syntax which is basically a pre-formatted string that can have variables scattered throughout it.