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Asked: 2026-05-27T19:04:25+00:00

I’m creating a form that reads in the users name and email, then emails

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I’m creating a form that reads in the users name and email, then emails them a voucher via a PHP file, which looks like this:

<?php

  $deal = "offer or discount details";

  $to = "$email";
  $subject = "Tonights wheree voucher - $deal";
  $message = '
  <html>
    <body>
        Test email sent to <?php echo $email; ?>.
    </body>
  </html>
  ';

  $headers = "From: wheree <no-reply@wheree.co.uk>" . "\r\n" .
             "Content-type: text/html" . "\r\n";

  mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

The form:

<form class="cmxform" id="details-form" method="get" action="test.php">
                 <fieldset>
                       <p>
                         <input id="name" name="name" title="Please enter your full name. " size="18" class="tagcheck" minlength="5" maxlength="60" value="Name" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue){this.value=''};" onblur="if(this.value==''){this.value=this.defaultValue};" />
                       </p>
                       <p>
                         <input id="email" name="email" size="18" title="Please enter a valid email address. " class="required email" value="Email" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue){this.value=''};" onblur="if(this.value==''){this.value=this.defaultValue};" />
                       </p>
                       <p class="tickbox-wrapper">
                       <input id="accept-tick" type="checkbox" name="vehicle" class="required" title="You must accept our Terms & Conditions. " /> I accept the voucher usage <a href="/voucher-terms-and-conditions" alt="terms" class="terms-link">Terms & Conditions</a>.
                       </p>

                       <div id="RegisterErrors" style="display:none"></div>

                       <p>
                         <input class="submit" type="submit" value="Continue"/>
                       </p>
                 </fieldset>
</form>

This works fine, but doesn’t echo the variable $email in the received email? I’ve also tried using $_GET["email"], but again to no success.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are trying to place an echo statement inside a single quoted string. Concatenate it in:

      $message = '
  <html>
    <body>
        Test email sent to ' . $email . '.
    </body>
  </html>
  ';

    Or better yet, switch to a double-quoted string for $message, in which $email can be interpolated.

      $message = "
  <html>
    <body>
        Test email sent to $email.
    </body>
  </html>
  ";

    See the PHP manual on strings for more information on variable interpolation and the difference between single and double-quoting.

    A third option if you have lots of variables and multiple lines is the HEREDOC syntax, which avoids quoting entirely.

      $message =<<<MESSAGE
  <html>
    <body>
        Test email sent to $email.
    </body>
  </html>
MESSAGE;
// Note that the MESSAGE; above MUST be at the start of its own line, with no indentation
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