Why can't I get the visitor's data, from my form, in my email using php?

Question

I use Dreamweaver CS6 and the php code that I'm using sends the form to my email, but not the data from who fills it out. My code on my php is (actual email is replaced with "email@email.com":

    <?php
$to= "email@email.com";
$subject= "Endorsement Form";
$message= "Endorser name: " . $_POST['name'] . "\r\n" . 
"Email:             " . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n" . 
"Address:           " . $_POST['address'] . "\r\n" . 
"City:              " . $_POST['city'] . "\r\n" . 
"State:             " . $_POST['state'] . "\r\n" . 
"Zip Code:          " . $_POST['zipcode'] . "\r\n" . 
"Phone Number:      " . $_POST['phonenumber'] . "\r\n" . 
"Endorsement Type   " . $_POST['endorsementtype'] . "\r\n" . "\r\n" . 
"Endorsement Quote  " . $_POST['endorsementquote'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n" .
$from= $_POST['email'];
$headers= "From: $from" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: email@email.com" . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);  
?>

And my HTML form:

    <form id="endorsementForm" name="endorsementForm" method="post"     action="email_form.php" enctype="text/plain">
        <span id="sprytextfield1">
          <label for="name">Name:</label>
          <br />
          <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span></span>
            <p><span id="sprytextfield2">
          <label for="email">Email:<br />
          </label>
          <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span><span     class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p><span id="sprytextfield3">
          <label for="address">Address:</label>
          <br />
          <input type="text" name="address" id="address" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p><span id="sprytextfield4">
          <label for="city">City:</label>
          <br />
          <input type="text" name="city" id="city" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p><span id="sprytextfield5">
          <label for="state">State:<br />
          </label>
          <input type="text" name="state" id="state" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p><span id="sprytextfield6">
          <label for="zipcode">Zip Code:<br />
          </label>
          <input type="text" name="zipcode" id="zipcode" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span><span     class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p><span id="sprytextfield7">
          <label for="phonenumber">Phone Number:</label>
          <br />
          <input type="text" name="phonenumber" id="phonenumber" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p>Endorsment Type:</p>
        <p><span id="spryradio1">
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="endorsementtype" value="type1"     id="endorsementtype_0" />
            Personal</label>
          <br />
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="endorsementtype" value="type2"     id="endorsementtype_1" />
            Professional</label>
          <br />
          <label>
            <input type="radio" name="endorsementtype" value="type3"     id="endorsementtype_2" />
            Organization</label>
          <br />
          <span class="radioRequiredMsg">Please make a selection.</span>    </span></p>
        <p>Endorsment Quote:</p>
        <p><span id="sprytextarea1">
          <textarea name="endorsementquote" id="endorsementquote" cols="45"  rows="5"></textarea>
          <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">*</span></span></p>
        <p>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
          <input type="reset" name="reset" id="reset" value="Clear Form" />

Answer 1

Consult my footnote.

Given the probable missing </form> tag in your question (something I commented on under your question), you're not checking if any of your inputs are empty, in turn leading to no data sent in mail.

You need to use a conditional !empty() against your inputs.

Sidenote: The && logical operator means AND. You can also use the || being the logical OR operator, depending on what you wish to check for.

I.e.:

 if(!empty($_POST['var1']) && !empty($_POST['var2']) ) 
 {

 // run your code

 }

which you can add to that with your other POST arrays.

Reference:

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.empty.php

Plus, if your HTML form and PHP are inside the same file (which is unknown but probable), that will also send empty data.

Therefore, use a conditional isset() for your submit button, followed by the conditional empty() inside that.

You're also open to an XSS injection with the POST arrays inside the $message variable.

Assign variables to POST arrays, and use validation filters.

• http://php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php

You also have a syntax error at the end here:

"Endorsement Quote  " . $_POST['endorsementquote'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n" .

You did not close it properly, if that's your actual code.

If should contain a closing semi-colon and losing the last dot:

"Endorsement Quote  " . $_POST['endorsementquote'] . "\r\n" ."\r\n";

Error reporting would have caught that.

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

---

Footnote:

Edit: As noted by Riggs.

You need to remove enctype="text/plain"

I didn't see that passed what is shown. But my answer above still applies and you should be doing that, because you will still end up with probable empty data.

Here is an article on that here on Stack:

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

Answer 2

Remove the enctype= property from your <form> tag to let it default to application/x-www-form-urlencoded or change the encytpe to

enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Also @Fred-ii- makes a lot of good points