PHP form - blank messages

Dean3y

Hi,

Could anyone please help. When I received emails from my contact form, the messages are always blank. What have I forgotten?
Any help would be appreciated.

Here is my code:

<form id="contactform" name="contactform" method="post" action="contactform.php">
<table width="368" border="0" align="left" cellspacing="10">
<tr>
<td width="118">Name</td>
<td width="293"><span id="name">
<label>
<input name="Name" type="text" id="Name" size="40" />
</label>
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg"> required</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone</td>
<td><span id="telephone">
<label>
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="40" />
</label>
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td><span id="emailaddress">
<label>
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="40" />
</label>
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">required</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Invalid format.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message</td>
<td><span id="message">
<label>
<textarea name="text1" cols="38" rows="8" id="text1"></textarea>
</label>
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><label>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</label></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<div id="footer"><!--


and my PHP:
<?php
$to = "example@example.com";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name = $_REQUEST ;
$phone = $_REQUEST ;
$email = $_REQUEST ;
$query = $_REQUEST ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$totalmessage = "
Name: $name \n
Phone: $phone \n
Email: $email \n
Query: $query \n";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $totalmessage, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Thank you. We will be in touch shortly. Click back to return to the website"; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>

seamus

Try using $_POST instead of $_REQUEST

Dean3y

Thanks Seamus, but it didn't change anything.
Thanks Though!

Webmonkey

Change

<textarea name="text1" cols="38" rows="8" id="text1"></textarea>

To

<textarea name="query" cols="38" rows="8" id="query"></textarea>

Dean3y

Webmonkey, I am so grateful! It works!
I spent too long trying to figure that out!
Many many thanks!
Very obvious now! I really should be more careful!!

seamus

useful debugging tool for this kind of thing is the print_r statement. This dumps the contents of an array to the screen.

For example,

print_r($_POST);

will print the contents of the $_POST variable to the screen so you can see exactly what's being sent. Very handy for catching typos and the like.

Dean3y

Excellent!!!!
Thanks Seamus! Will def use that!