PHP Contact form Problems

General PHP Help
#1

Hey im a newbee to PHP, so dont laugh…

basically i have created this Contact from…

[php]<form action="contact.php"method=“post”>

      <label for="Name">Name:</label>

      <input type="text" name="name" id="name" required placeholder="Name" />

      <label for="name">Contact:</label>

      <input type="text" name="Contact" id="subject" required placeholder="Contact Number" />

      <label for="email">Email:</label>

      <input type="email" name="email" id="email" required placeholder="[email protected]" />

      <label for="message">Message:</label>

      <textarea name="message" id="message" required placeholder= "please be as detailed as possible"/></textarea>

      <input type="submit" value=Send Message"<address> />

    </form>[/php]

It was part of a template i downloaded, and i have been working on it a while, the PHP associated with this is as follows…

[php]<?php
$field_name = $_POST[‘cf_name’];
$field_Contact = $_POST[‘cf_Contact’];
$field_Email = $_POST[‘cf_Email’];
$field_Message = $_POST[‘cf_Message’];

$mail_to = ‘[email protected]’;
$subject = 'Survey Request From BBS Website '.$field_name;

$body_message .= '$From: '.$name."\n";
$body_message .= '$Contact: '.$Contact."\n";
$body_message .= '$E-mail: '.$email."\n";
$body_message .= '$Message: '.$message;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>

<?php } else { ?> 
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	alert('Im sorry something has gone wrong!');
	window.location = 'HTTp://www.bbsurveys.co.uk';
</script>
<?php } ?>[/php]

here is my problem, it all works fine, when i press send, it says thank you very much, but the Email i receive is just…

$email
$contact
$message

i can see why it is doing it, i just cant see a way of fixing it to include the text in the field.

Lack of PHP knowledge i think
Any help would be greatly appreciated

cheers Rio

#2

You are assigning the post var to certain vars but then using different vars in the body to send, so they don’t match.
$field_name doesn’t match $name

#3

Hi Fastsol, cheers for replying…

[php]<?php
$field_name = $_POST[‘cf_name’];
$field_Contact = $_POST[‘cf_Contact’];
$field_Email = $_POST[‘cf_Email’];
$field_Message = $_POST[‘cf_Message’];

$mail_to = ‘[email protected]’;
$subject = 'Survey Request From BBS Website '.$field_name;

$body_message .= '$From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= '$Contact: '.$field_Contact."\n";
$body_message .= '$E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= '$Message: '.$field_message;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";[/php]

Could you perhaps edit one line, so i can see what i am doing wrong…

cheers rio

p.s…

when i receive the email it says (no sender)

#4

Again, the var on these lines
[php]$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";[/php]
Doesn’t match $field_Email

#5

They now all match as you suggested.

But the email i receive from the website just says
$mail
$message
$subject

And so on, how do i get the message or subject i type in to appear in the email.

Cheers rio

#6

You got one more problem, you names from the input are not the same as those from the POST[…];
Try this

[php]
$field_name = $_POST[‘name’];
$field_Contact = $_POST[‘Contact’];
$field_Email = $_POST[‘email’];
$field_Message = $_POST[‘message’];

	$mail_to = '[email protected]';
	$subject = 'Survey Request From BBS Website  '.$field_name;

	$body_message .= '$From: '.$field_name."\n";
	$body_message .= '$Contact: '.$field_Contact."\n";
	$body_message .= '$E-mail: '.$field_Email."\n";
	$body_message .= '$Message: '.$field_Message;

	$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
	$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

	$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

	if ($mail_status) { ?>
		<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
			alert('Thank you. We will contact you shortly.');
			window.location = 'HTTp://www.bbsurveys.co.uk';
		</script>
	<?php
	}
	else { ?>
		<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
			alert('Im sorry something has gone wrong!');
			window.location = 'HTTp://www.bbsurveys.co.uk';
		</script>
	<?php
	}

?>
[/php]

i think you should use isset() at each POST and !empty();

[php]

<?php if(isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['Contact']) && isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['message']) && !empty($_POST['name']) && !empty($_POST['Contact']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['message'])){ $field_name = $_POST['name']; $field_Contact = $_POST['Contact']; $field_Email = $_POST['email']; $field_Message = $_POST['message']; $mail_to = '[email protected]'; $subject = 'Survey Request From BBS Website '.$field_name; $body_message .= '$From: '.$field_name."\n"; $body_message .= '$Contact: '.$field_Contact."\n"; $body_message .= '$E-mail: '.$field_Email."\n"; $body_message .= '$Message: '.$field_Message; $headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n"; $headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n"; $mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers); if ($mail_status) { ?> 
		<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
			alert('Thank you. We will contact you shortly.');
			window.location = 'HTTp://www.bbsurveys.co.uk';
		</script>
	<?php
	}
	else { ?>
		<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
			alert('Im sorry something has gone wrong!');
			window.location = 'HTTp://www.bbsurveys.co.uk';
		</script>
	<?php
	}

}
?>

[/php]

Let us know if this works.

Cheers

#7
i think you should use isset() at each POST and !empty();
You would only need to use the !empty(). That will evaluate to the same degree as isset() with half the code.
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