I get a email without the form information, why?

Question

If I submit the form I only get an email in my mailbox, with no information. How can i fix this?

PHP code:

<?php
$to      = 'julius.kroon@gmail.com';
$subject = 'new costumer';
if(isset($_POST['title'])){ $title = $_POST['title']; }
if(isset($_POST['name'])){ $name = $_POST['name']; }
if(isset($_POST['companyname'])){ $companyname = $_POST['companyname']; }
if(isset($_POST['mail'])){ $mail = $_POST['mail']; }
if(isset($_POST['extrapages'])){ $extrapages = $_POST['extrapages']; }
if(isset($_POST['sow'])){ $sow = $_POST['sow']; }
$title = null;
$name = null;
$companyname = null;
$mail = null;
$extrapages = null;
$sow = null;
$message ="
title = $title
name = $name
companyname = $companyname
mail = $mail
extra pages = $extrapages
site on web = $sow";
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

HTML code:

<form action="" method="POST" enctype="text/plain">
    <em>Last name:</em></br>
    <select name="title" id="title">
        <option>Mr.</option>
        <option>Mrs.</option>
        <option>Dr.</option>
    </select>
    <input type="text" size="25" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Last name"><p /><br>

    <em>company name:</em></br>
    <input type="text" size="25" name="companyname" id="companyname" placeholder="Company Name"><p /><br>

    <em>Email:</em></br>
    <input type="text" size="25" name="mail" id="mail" placeholder="email"><p /><br>

    <em>how many extra pages:</em><br>
    <select name="extrapages" id="extrapages">
        <option>0</option>
        <option>1</option>
        <option>2</option>
        <option>3</option>
        <option>4</option>
        <option>5</option>
        <option>6</option>
        <option>7</option>
        <option>8</option>
        <option>9</option>
    </select><br><br>

    <em>Would you like us to put your site on the internet?</em><br>
    <input type="radio" name="sow" id="sow" value="Yes">Yes
    <input type="radio" name="sow" id="sow" value="No">No<br><br>
    <input type="Submit" value="Send!">
</form>

If I submit the form I only get the following text in my email:

title =
name =
companyname =
mail =
extra pages =
site on web =

What do I have to do to fix this?

You are setting all variables to null after isset condition. Remove that. — Disha V., Aug 08 '15 at 12:19
You're getting the right output i.e., You're doing the data null ! — Sulthan Allaudeen, Aug 08 '15 at 12:20
now i get the error :Undefined variable. how do i solve this error? — julius174, Aug 08 '15 at 12:36
sorry i am just a php starter. but how do put all the null assignments before the isset condition? (i am not very good at english) — julius174, Aug 08 '15 at 12:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

This is your first problem:

enctype="text/plain"

PHP doesn't support that encoding of form data and won't populate $_POST if given data in that format. Remove it.

Your second problem is here:

$title = null;
$name = null;
$companyname = null;
$mail = null;
$extrapages = null;
$sow = null;

After collecting the data from $_POST… you throw it away. Don't do that. Remove those lines.

now i get the error :Undefined variable. how do i solve this error?

This is covered in this question.

I get a email without the form information, why?

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