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Asked: 2026-06-13T06:11:10+00:00

It’s my first time trying to make a contactform. And I’ve got a few

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It’s my first time trying to make a contactform. And I’ve got a few problems
It’s works, I get the email, but I don’t get the name the name field with me in the email.

HTML:

<form method="post" name="contactform" action="scripts/contact.php">
<h3>Name</h3>
<input type="text" name="name">
<h3>Email Address</h3>
<input type="text" name="email">
<h3>Message</h3>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<br/><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send Form">
</form>

PHP:

<?php
$to = "name@domane.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $name, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>

$name is my problem. I’ve I have it in, the email comes from hostmaster@domane.com, If I delete it, everything works fine. But I wan’t the name to be sent to me. How?
Or should I do it completely different?

Also, if you leave all the fields blank, the “user” doesn’t get any error message, and a blank email is sent to me.

Hope you can help me. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Michael Berkowski is correct. What you’ll need to do is add the name to your message’s body (not in the sense of the input name= attribute, rather the body of the email).

    Something like this:

    <?php
$to = "name@domane.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";

$body = "Name: $name\r\n";
$body .= "Message: $message";

$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>

    Revised:

    HTML:

    <form method="post" name="contactform" action="scripts/contact.php">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
<br/><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send Form" />
</form>

    PHP:

    <?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;

$body = "Name: $name\r\n";
$body .= "Message: $message";

$to = "name@domane.com";
$from = "automailer@mydomainname.com (Website Automailer)";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$headers =  "From: $from\r\n" .
        "Reply-To: $email ($name)";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ;
if($sent) { echo "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else { echo "One of the field are not filled as requirred"; }
?>
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