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This is my HTML form, which is inside a little box on my site.

<form name="contactform" action="contact/form-mailer.php" method="post">


<p>*Name: <input name="Name" id="Name" size="25"></p>


<p>*Pickup from: <input name="pfrom" id="pform" size="25"></p>


<p>*Destination: <input name="destin" id="destin" size="25"></p>


<p>*E-mail: <input name="Email" id="Email" size="25"></p>


<p>*Phone: <input name="Phone" id="Phone" size="25"></p>

<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submitform"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset"></p>

</form>

And this is my current PHP for sending the mail using PEAR. I haven't added all of the variables into the $body yet, as I've just been trying to get it to actually work.

<?php

   // Include the Mail package
   //require "Mail.php";
   include 'Mail.php';


   // Identify the sender, recipient, mail subject, and body
   $sender    = "XXXXXX";
   $recipient = "XXXXXX";
   $subject   = "FORM";
   $body      = $name; // Even when seting $name in the PHP file it still doesn't show!

   // Identify the mail server, username, password, and port
   $server   = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
   $username = "XXXXXXXX";
   $password = "XXXXXXXX";
   $port     = "465";

    // Get form var's   
    $name = "Test"; //  I set $name to "Test" in the PHP and still the variable does not appear in the email.
    $destin = $_POST['destin'];
    $email = $_POST['Email'];
    $pfrom = $_POST['pfrom'];

   // Set up the mail headers
   $headers = array(
      "From"    => $sender,
      "To"      => $recipient,
      "Subject" => $subject
   );

   // Configure the mailer mechanism
   $smtp = Mail::factory("smtp",
      array(
        "host"     => $server,
        "username" => $username,
        "password" => $password,
        "auth"     => true,
        "port"     => 465
      )
   );

   // Send the message
   $mail = $smtp->send($recipient, $headers, $body);

   if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
      echo ($mail->getMessage());
   }

?>

So I have no idea why this isn't working. I need body to be like this

$body = $name . " wants to go to " . $destin . " from " . $pfrom;

But it just doesn't pickup any variables, regardless of whether I am trying to get them from the HTML form or set them in the PHP file itself. I was expecting this to be really easy, but this has stumped me for over a day now. Very frustrating. I can find no example anywhere that shows you how to do it, and only a handful have asked this exact question and received no definitive answer.

Cœur
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Recy
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  • I don't see you assigning the `$body` variable anywhere in your code. Other than that, use `var_debug()` to see what's in variables like the `$_POST` array. – Rijk Sep 23 '11 at 11:56
  • It's near the top: "$body = $name;" - I'll try var_debug() – Recy Sep 23 '11 at 12:01

2 Answers2

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In the code you posted, you attempted to set the value of $body on line 13, but did not set the value of $name until line 22. $name is null at the time you assign it to $body, so $body does not contain the values you are hoping for.

To fix this problem, move the $body = ... line below the other assignments. Something like this:

...
// Get form var's   
$name = "Test"; //  I set $name to "Test" in the PHP and still the variable does not appear in the email.
$destin = $_POST['destin'];
$email = $_POST['Email'];
$pfrom = $_POST['pfrom'];

// Populate $body
$body = $name . " wants to go to " . $destin . " from " . $pfrom;
...
George Cummins
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You have not mention where you have kept your php code file? Is it contact folder? and also look after the file location of Mail.php. This file must be under contact folder.

Vikram Srivastava
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