PHP email problem

Brad55 · November 27, 2011

I have a little problem with my email script that I can't figure out why it's doing this. The email gets sent but no from email address is in the email and no text.

Here is the HTML code for the form.

<form id="facilitator" name="facilitator" method="post" action="http://www.mysite.com/emailf/email.php">
    <table width="100%" border="0" align="center">
      <tr>
        <td width="176"><div align="right">
          <label for="email2">Email:</label>
        </div></td>
        <td width="167"><div align="left">
          <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="35" maxlength="80" />
        </div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="name">Full Name:</label>
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="35" maxlength="80" />
        </div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="phone">Phone Number:</label>
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="35" maxlength="14" />
        </div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="comments">Comments:</label>
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="38" rows="5"></textarea>
        </div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right"></div></td>
        <td><div align="left"></div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="right">
          <label for="clear"></label>
          <input type="reset" name="clear" id="clear" value="Reset Form!" />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="left">
          <label for="submit"></label>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit Email!" />
        </div></td>
          </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2"><div align="right"></div>	          <div align="left"></div></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </form>

This is the PHP code to send the email.

<?php

/* Subject and Email Variables */

$emailSubject = 'Facilitor at Warfighter Tech!';
$webMaster = 'myemail@email.com';
    
/* Gathering Data Variables */

$emailField = $POST['email'];
    $nameField = $POST['name'];
    $phoneField = $POST['phone'];
    $commentsField = $POST['comments'];
    
    $body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Email: $email <br>
Name: $name <br>
Phone Number: $phone <br>
Comments: $comments <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content=type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

/* Results rendered as HTML */

$theResults = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title>Warfighter Tech Facilitor Job</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #f1f1f1;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<div>
  <div align="left">Thank you for your interest! Your email will be answered very soon!</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

EOD;
echo "$theResults";

?>

This is what I get in an email.

I get the Subject but no return email address and this is whats in the email.

<hr>

Email:

Name:

Phone Number:

Comments:

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

Pikachu2000 · November 27, 2011

You should be developing with the following directives in your php.ini file:

error_reporting = -1

display_errors = On

If you had it set up that way, you'd be getting notices regarding an undefined variable: $email, because that isn't the name of the variable to which you've assigned the value from the $_POST array.

Brad55 · November 27, 2011

Pikachu2000,

Let me see if I understand you correctly.

Is what I need to do is change these

$body = <<<EOD

<hr>

Email: $email

Name: $name

Phone Number: $phone

Comments: $comments

EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";

to this

$body = <<<EOD

<hr>

Email: email

Name: name

Phone Number: phone

Comments: comments

EOD;

$headers = "From: email\r\n";

I'm not a programer and have never really done any thing in PHP. I got the script off the net http://www.tutvid.com/tutorials/dreamweaver/tutorials/phpFormHandler.php and put in a HTML and php file, it send an email but there is no return address and nothing in the email. I just need a simple one to receive emails.

Thanks for all your help.

Pikachu2000 · November 27, 2011

The email address from the form is assigned to $emailField, not $email . . .

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