I am having trouble figuring our exactly why my php code won’t pick up the first name from my form, I hope you guys can help.
Everything else is emailed through fine, just the first name field which is element_1_1.
Here is the PHP:
$<?php
$errors = '';
$myemail = 'example@example.co.uk';
if( empty($_POST['element_1_1']) ||
empty($_POST['element_1_2']) ||
empty($_POST['element_3']) ||
empty($_POST['element_2']) ||
empty($_POST['element_5']) ||
empty($_POST['element_4']))
$name = $_POST['element_1_1'];
$lastname = $_POST['element_1_2'];
$email_address = $_POST['element_3'];
$number = $_POST['element_2'];
$area = $_POST['element_5'];
$discount = $_POST['element_4'];
if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address))
{
$errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address \n";
}
if( empty($errors))
{
$to = $myemail;
$email_subject = "";
$email_body = "".
"\n First Name: $name \n \n Second Name: $lastname \n \n Email: $email_address \n \n Phone Number: $number \n \n Area(s): $area \n \n Discount: $discount \n".
$headers = "From: example@example.co.uk\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//redirect to the 'thank you' page
header('Location: http://www.example.co.uk');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact form handler</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- This page is displayed only if there is some error -->
<?php
echo nl2br($errors);
echo "";
echo " \n <a href='http://www.example.com'>Go Back</a> \n";
?>
</body>
</html>
And here is the form:
<div id="bmvform-form_container">
<form id="form_507993" class="appnitro" method="post" action="formsend.php">
<div class="form_description">
<h2>Want To Receive Our Properties?</h2>
<p><em>At Pure Acquisitions, we respect your privacy. Any details provided will NOT be sent to any third party without your consent.</em></p>
</div>
<ul >
<li id="li_1" >
<label class="description" for="element_1">Name </label>
<span>
<input id="element_1_1" name="element_1_1" class="element text" maxlength="255" size="14" value=""/>
<label>First</label>
</span>
<span>
<input id="element_1_2" name="element_1_2" class="element text" maxlength="255" size="14" value=""/>
<label>Last</label>
</span><p class="guidelines" id="guide_1"><small>We don't want to be rude!</small></p>
</li> <li id="li_3" >
<label class="description" for="element_3">Email Address </label>
<div>
<input id="element_3" name="element_3" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/>
</div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_3"><small>To send you important stuff!</small></p>
</li> <li id="li_2" >
<label class="description" for="element_2">Phone Number </label>
<div>
<input id="element_2" name="element_2" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/>
</div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_2"><small>We need to let you know about our properties!</small></p>
</li> <li id="li_5" >
<label class="description" for="element_5">Locations You Are Interested In </label>
<span>
<input id="element_5_1" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="All" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_1">All</label>
<input id="element_5_2" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="London" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_2">London</label>
<input id="element_5_3" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="South of England" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_3">South of England</label>
<input id="element_5_4" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="West Midlands" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_4">West Midlands</label>
<input id="element_5_5" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="East Midlands" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_5">East Midlands</label>
<input id="element_5_6" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="North West" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_6">North West</label>
<input id="element_5_7" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="North East" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_7">North East</label>
<input id="element_5_8" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="Yorkshire & Humber" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_8">Yorkshire & Humber</label>
<input id="element_5_9" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="Wales" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_9">Wales</label>
<input id="element_5_10" name="element_5" class="element radio" type="radio" value="Scotland" />
<label class="choice" for="element_5_10">Scotland</label>
</span><p class="guidelines" id="guide_5"><small>Let us know where in the country you are looking for property.</small></p>
</li> <li id="li_4" >
<label class="description" for="element_4">Ideal Discount From Market Value </label>
<div>
<input id="element_4" name="element_4" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/>
</div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_4"><small>How much discount (in percent) are you looking for?</small></p>
</li>
<li class="buttons">
<input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="507993" />
<input id="saveForm" class="button_text" type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</li>
</ul>
</form>
</div>
You’re missing the curley brackets here? I would assume this or something similar with curley brackets, depending on what you’d like to do.
What are you trying to do with the if-statement anyway? You’re checking if one of them is empty and then set them all? Or you should check if one of them is empty and then send a message back to user that one of the fields needs to be filled? Then you should change it a bit to something like this: