PHP Form?

mikem1986

I out a php form on my website today but when people are filling out the form im just getting blank emails and i dont know where its going wrong and wondered if you guys could help?

This is the form code

<form method="post" action="contactbusiness.php">
<p align="left">Your Name:
<input name="Name" type="text">
<br>
Business Name:
<input name="Business Name" type="text">
<br>
Category:
<input name="Category" type="text">
<br>
Phone Number:
<input name="Phone Number" type="text">
<br>
Email:
<input name="Email" type="text">
<br>
Website:
<input name="Website" type="text">
</p>

<input type="submit">
</p>
</form>

and the php code is

<form method="post" action="../BusinessDirectory/contactbusiness.php"><?php
$to = "[EMAIL="enquiries&#64;onethoughtpgd.co.uk"]enquiries@onethoughtpgd.co.uk[/EMAIL]";
$subject = "Business Directory Listing";
$email = $_REQUEST ;
$message = $_REQUEST ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully, please allow 2-3 working days for your information to be placed on the site."; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
<br>
</form>

can anyone please tel me where im going wrong?


Regards

mikem1986

can anyone help?

vyseyboy

I have never actually done any PHP before in my life, but looking over it, the PHP script references $_REQUEST , referring to a message that would be typed in on a text box, presumably, but the form HTML code doesn't have an "input" for the text variable 'message'.

That's my complete amateur's analysis. Please take it with a pinch of salt.

Edit: Have you had a look at your site? Does it actually have a text form for the "message"?

You could try adding this between the <input name="Website" type="text"> and the </p> on the HTML form:

<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40">
</textarea>

Edit #2: I'd also get rid of the capital letters in the HTML code for fields such as Email, and make them all lowercase for consistency. It might not matter, it might.

mikem1986

sounds worth giving a shot

would i just put

<input name="Name" type="text">

somwhere in the form code?

M4RKM

i do do php, badly...

your form has no "message" so it can't send anything

also, as you have more than 1 entry box, you need to rewrite it to make sure it sends the other fields..

personally, when i use an email form i make sure i whack everything in a database, so even if my email is down, and it bounces, i still have everything... not as efficient, but very useful

mikem1986

hi vy!

that worked, the text area bit came through on the email but nothing else did

so how do i make it so all the info comes through?

M4RKM

ignore this post.... read below... more interesting

M4RKM

try using this, and in your form, change things so they don't have a space in...

i've started, but i'll let you finish

<form method="post" action="../BusinessDirectory/contactbusiness.php"><?php
$to = "enquiries&#64;onethoughtpgd.co.uk";
$subject = "Business Directory Listing";
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$busname = $_REQUEST['business_name'];
$cat = $_REQUEST['category'];
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $category, $business_name) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully, please allow 2-3 working days for your information to be placed on the site."; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
<br>
</form>

i think.. its been a while since i did a form like this

mikem1986

i think i got it working with

<form method="post" action="contactbusiness.php">
<p align="left">Your Name:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Business Name:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Category:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Phone Number:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Email:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Website:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
</p>


<input type="submit">
</p>
</form>

mikem1986

where youve put business_name

does the underscore replace a space, do i have to put the underscore in?

PasturesNew

Yes, put the underscore in. It's bad practice to use spaces in any names in any language or anything really with computers.

Most/many languages won't recognise or accept a space.

My pet hate is people that name Word documents with spaces in .... can really go haywire if they're used anywhere but on that person's PC.