New to PHP and struggling with a form.

[martinstan]

Hi
Sorry for a painfully basic question but I'm having problems with this form. It kind of works but instead of the information collected in the fields being in the body of the email, it's appearing as the mail subject???
Please help!

Thanks
Martin

[code]<?php
$to      = "[email protected]";
$name    = $_POST['name'];
$tel   = $_POST['tel'];
$email    = $_POST['email'];
$msg      = $_POST['msg'];
$d        = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$sub      = "Contact from website";
$headers  = "From:" .$name .$email."\n"; 
$mes    .= "Message: ".$msg."\n";
$mes    .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes .= "Tel: ".$tel."\n";
$mes    .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes    .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;

if (empty($name) || empty($tel) || empty($email) || empty($msg))
{
    echo "  <h3>Sorry all fields are required.</h3>";
}
elseif(!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {
    print "  <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";
}
else
{
    mail($to, $mes, $headers);
    print "  <h3><center>Thank you ".$name." for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as possible</center></h3>";
}
?>[/code]

the form
[code] <form method="post" action="send.php">
    Name:<br><input name="name" type="text" size="40">
    <br><br>
    Tel:<br><input name="tel" type="text" size="40">
    <br><br>
Email:<br><input name="email" type="text" size="40">
    <br><br>
    Message:<br><textarea name="msg" cols="40" rows="6"></textarea>
    <br><br>
    <input type="reset" value="Reset">&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Send">
  </form>[/code]

[Cep]

Try this,

[code=php:0]
$mes    = "Message: ".$msg."\n";
$mes    .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes .= "Tel: ".$tel."\n";
$mes    .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes    .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;
[/code]

Also remember your mail function should be

$mail = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

[martinstan]

Hi Cep
Thanks for your help but now I'm getting an email with an empty body, no subject, however it does say who it is from.
Do I need to create the '$mail' variable anywhere?

Martin

[martinstan]

Hi Cep
Sorry, I cut and pasted what you put and then realised you'd put '$message' instead of '$mes'.