Sending HTML form by php - receiving empty email

Question

I have very simple HTML form:

<form action="email_ok.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"> 
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" value="" size="50" required>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="mail" value="@" size="50" required><br>
Comment:<br>
<input type="text" name="comment" value="" size="50" required><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="SEND">
<input type="reset" value="Delete">
</form>

with php file email_ok.php

<?php
mail('myemail@mail.com', $_POST['name'], $_POST['mail'], $_POST['comment']); ?> <p>OK</p>

But I am still receiving empty mail. What is wrong? Sorry I am beginner.

Thanks a lot.

Use PHPMAILER instead of php's built-in mail() – Ali MasudianPour Jan 22 '14 at 09:23 — Ali MasudianPour, Jan 22 '14 at 09:23
http://in1.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php – Rakesh Sharma Jan 22 '14 at 09:24 — Rakesh Sharma, Jan 22 '14 at 09:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:26

modify you mail function like below:

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

like this:

<?php mail('myemail@mail.com', "Test subject", $_POST['comment']); ?>

You can get more info :http://in1.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:28

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i do it like this

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

answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:28

Robin

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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look at this. remove the enctype in the form-tag and it should work.

PHP cannot handle data which is sent with enctype "text/plain".

method="post" enctype="text/plain" are not compatible?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:30

leuchtdiode

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:30

You are using an attribute required. I guess you are using some javascript to make them required. When you use that kind of thing, javascript replaces your input tags, you can check your rendered page source. This may cause the problem if it changes your name attribute.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 09:33

Try this.

$message = $_POST['name'].' '.$_POST['mail'].' '.$_POST['comment'];  
mail('myemail@mail.com', 'Your subject',$message);

If you want to send email on $_POST['mail'] then use following.

$message = $_POST['name'].' '.$_POST['mail'].' '.$_POST['comment'];  
mail($_POST['mail'], 'Your subject',$message);

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:16

try this for you php code

<?PHP
$email = $_POST["emailaddress"];
$to = "you@youremail.com";
$subject = "New Email Address for Mailing List";
$headers = "From: $email\n";
$message = "A visitor to your site has sent the following email address to be added to your mailing list.\n

Email Address: $email";
$user = "$email";
$usersubject = "Thank You";
$userheaders = "From: you@youremailaddress.com\n";
$usermessage = "Thank you for subscribing to our mailing list.";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($user,$usersubject,$usermessage,$userheaders);
?>

if you need full code with html as well as php also let me .

Sending HTML form by php - receiving empty email

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