[Dragon]

ok, hopefully someone can help me on this issue.

Created a contact form for my website that sends an email to me when a customer enters their email address and puts content in the message body area. The problem I have is that when it sends the email, I get their email address, but not getting the message body that is input in the textarea of the form.

here is my code, it is very simple, but all is get is the "From: $email" no message. it is probably something real easy that I'm missing and maybe another set of eyes can see where my error is.

<?php
  $email = $_GET['email'] ;
  $message = $_GET['message'] ;

  mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", "From: $email",
    $message );
  header( "Location: http://www.sixtoed-design.com/thankyou.php" );
?>

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Hi Dragon,

There's a couple of things going wrong in this script. Firstly you're using the built in mail() function wrong. It should follow the syntax below :

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

So in your case it should be :

mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message );

The second thing that you need to do is put curly braces in the string to use the $email variable, either that or concatenate the string. I would suggest something like the following :

<?php
  $message = 'From : '.$_GET['email']."\n".$_GET['message'];

  mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message );
  header( "Location: http://www.sixtoed-design.com/thankyou.php" );
?>

You can probably take it a step further by putting a conditional statement in there to only redirect if the email was sent successfully, so you can do something like this:

<?php
  $message = 'From : '.$_GET['email']."\n".$_GET['message'];

  if(mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message ))
  {
     header( "Location: http://www.sixtoed-design.com/thankyou.php" );
  }
?>

Hope that helps!

[Nahumi]

Hi Dragon,

There's a couple of things going wrong in this script. Firstly you're using the built in mail() function wrong. It should follow the syntax below :

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

So in your case it should be :

mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message );

The second thing that you need to do is put curly braces in the string to use the $email variable, either that or concatenate the string. I would suggest something like the following :

<?php
  $message = 'From : '.$_GET['email']."\n".$_GET['message'];

  mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message );
  header( "Location: http://www.sixtoed-design.com/thankyou.php" );
?>

You can probably take it a step further by putting a conditional statement in there to only redirect if the email was sent successfully, so you can do something like this:

<?php
  $message = 'From : '.$_GET['email']."\n".$_GET['message'];

  if(mail( "[email protected]", "Service Request", $message ))
  {
     header( "Location: http://www.sixtoed-design.com/thankyou.php" );
  }
?>

Hope that helps!