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I am putting together a website for the mother and her business. She wants a contact form so customers can contect her, instead of using an email.

I got some coding together but when I submit it the email comes in blank. Can any of ya help me out on this one.

Heres a look at the codes.

[code]<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<br><br>
<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
  Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
  Name:<input type="text" name="name" size="20"><br />
  <br />
  <input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>[/code]

&

[code]<?
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
  $name = $_REQUEST['name'];

  mail( "dleflair@bellsouth.net", "Link Request",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: <a href="http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/thankyou.html</a>" );
?>
[/code]

There is only 2 feilds because I wanted to test it first before adding any more options. Like url, how they found her site (refered, search engine, blah, blah) which will be a drop down box.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Well, since you're not putting any text in the variable $message, you're sending anything so you will get a blank message.

Change your form to include a message box:
[code]
html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<br><br>
<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
  Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
  Name:<input type="text" name="name" size="20"><br />
  Message: <textarea name="message" colums="50" rows="10"></textarea>
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
[/code]
And in the processing script:
[code]<?php
  $email = $_POST['email'];
  $name = $_POST['name'];
  $message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);

  mail( "dleflair@bellsouth.net", "Link Request",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html");
?>[/code]
Note: the header() function is not a address tag, so it doesn't take any of the <a> options.

Ken
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