Having trouble getting form data with PHP

Question

Hey all from what I can tell my code looks like it should work but it's not. I am not seeing where my error is. When I fill out the form and press submit I am able to get the first variable for name, but phone and email do not show up. Can someone point out where my error(s) are? ` Form Test

<body>

<form action="clientData.php" method="post">
What is your name?
<input type="text" name="name">

<br>
What is your email address?
<input type ="text" email="email">

<br>
What is your phone number?
<input type = "text" phone="phone">
</br>
<input type="submit">


</form>
</body>
</html>`

And here is my clientData.php file where I want to store my variables to insert into my database.

<?php $clientName= $_POST['name']; $clientEmail= $_POST['email']; echo $clientName; echo $clientEmail; ?>

Yep it was the name tag. Can't believe I overlooked that. Thanks. — derp, Nov 28 '15 at 23:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '15 at 22:44

You need to change your form like this :

<form action="clientData.php" method="post">
What is your name?
<input type="text" name="name">

<br>
What is your email address?
<input type="text" name="email">

<br>
What is your phone number?
<input type="text" name="phone">
</br>
<input type="submit">

And the PHP :

<?php
$clientName= $_POST['name'];
$clientEmail= $_POST['email'];
$clientPhone= $_POST['phone'];
?>

The HTML attribute which define the index of the value in the POST array is name, so for example to create a field, you need to do it like this :

<input type="text" name="theNameOfTheField">

And to get the result in PHP :

<?php
$fieldValue= $_POST['theNameOfTheField'];
?>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '15 at 22:47

1

<input type ="text" name="email" id="name">

If you dont name the element, its not gona work.

answered Nov 28 '15 at 22:47

BorisD

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '15 at 22:48

What is your email address?
<input type ="text" email="email">

<br>
What is your phone number?
<input type = "text" phone="phone">

The error here is that the input name should be name and not the field name

What is your email address?
<input type ="text" name="email">

<br>
What is your phone number?
<input type = "text" name="phone">

Having trouble getting form data with PHP

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