Question

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.

Answer 1

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;
...