email form problems

[dgrotz]

I have a form on my web site and want the results to be emailed to me. I am using a small php script that acomplishes this task but when I recieve the email it is blank, I have tried several scripts with the same results. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for any and all input,

[Shani]

Please post the script and html.

[dgrotz]

This is the php script I'm using-

$message = " $todayis [EST] \n
Attention: $attn \n
Message: $notes \n
From: $visitor ($visitormail)\n
Additional Info : IP = $ip \n
Browser Info: $httpagent \n
Referral : $httpref \n
";

$from = "From: $visitormail\r\n";


mail("dgrotzinger@adelphia.net", $subject, $message, $from); 

And here is my form data-

<form action="form.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain" name="Join our mailing list" target="_self" id="Join our mailing list">
      <p align="center"><span class="style10">
     


      Join Our Mailing List <br>
        e-mail:</span>          
        <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="15">
        <?php echo $_POST['email']?><br>
          <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Join">
      </p>
    </form>

Thanks,

[Shani]

Please note, I am VERY new to php, so I could be way off, so forgive me if this is not too helpful.

So, the email you receive... it has no information? does it at least have the following?

Attention:
Message:
From:
Additional Info :
Browser Info:
Referral

From:

What the rookie (me) sees:
In the html, you define the 'email' which is transferred via $_POST as $email to form.php.

mail("dgrotzinger@adelphia.net", $subject, $message, $from); 

Dissecting... email is coming to you, $subject (you never define), $message (has a bunch of undefined variables), $from (defined w/ undefined variable).

In the meantime you never request the result from the form, $email.

ps... WDF has a really great feature for posting different types of code. It's very similar to html but uses [ ] instead of <>. So, if you are posting code, type in [html] or [php] etc. and then the corresponding end [/]

[rosland]

(Edited your post by adding formatting tags)

The order of arguments seems to be ok
(ref this thread: http://www.webdesignforums.net/showthread.php?t=15130)

I assume there are some additional code on page "form.php", that contains the missing variables ($subject, $todayis, $attn, $notes, $visitor, $visitormail, $ip, $httpagent, $httpref) ?!

If not, then that's where your problem lies!
Otherwise, then maybe the problem is as banale as not retrieving the passed variables through $_POST[].

A form name "variable", is not immediately available as $variable one the processing page, if "register_globals" are set to OFF in your php.ini file (which is, and should be, standard).

As the recipient is hardcoded ("dgrotzinger@adelphia.net"), that could explain why you are recieving the mail, but without any content.

[dgrotz]

Thanks for the help everyone, I have figured it out! :smoker: