Question

I am new to PHP, but, I have a simple contact form that is sending to my email. Everything works as expected except the $message variable is not displaying.

The php is processing the request and sending the website viewer to the thank you page, viewer is also getting confirmation email, and I am receiving the email with all requested variables except the $message data.

The variables are consolidated into $totalmessage due to the mail() function limits.

As I said, I am new to php, but appreciate your help.

PHP code:

<?php

    $to = "[e-mail]";
    $subject = "Inquiry";
    $name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
    $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
    $phone = $_REQUEST['phone'] ;

    if (isset($_POST['interest']) && $_POST['interest']!= 'none'){ 

        if (is_array($_POST['interest'])){ 
            $interest = implode(" ", $_POST['interest']); // format your array for use 
        } else { 
            $interest = $_POST['interest']; // no array -> print single value 
        } 
    } 
    $method = $_REQUEST['method' ] ;
    $message = $_GET['message'] ;
    $totalmessage = "
        Name:       $name \n
        Email:      $email \n
        Phone:      $phone \n
        Interest:           $interest \n
        Method:     $method \n 
        Message:             $message \n ";
    $headers = "From: $email";

    $sent = mail($to, $subject, $totalmessage, $headers);
    if($sent)
        header( "Location: /thankyou.html" );
    else
        print "We encountered an error sending your mail";
?>

HTML code:

<div class="row">
    <br><label for="message"> Message:</label><br/>
    <textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message"></textarea>
</div>

Email Output:

            Name:           bob

            Email:          [e-mail]

            Phone:          [phone]

            Interest:       research

            Method:         email

            Message:                               <===should have message text

Answer 1

You shouldnt use the GET variable for sending the message.
The URL can only send 255 letters! So the best is to send it with POST.

<form method="post" action="index.php?action=send">
<textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message"></textarea>
</form>

and in ur php:

$message = $_POST['message'] ;