PHP Variable not Showing up in Email from Form

Question

I am having some trouble with setting up a mail form for my site. Currently, when I press submit on the form, the email that gets sent to me only shows the text portion of it and it does not show the variable! So in my email it would only show "This message is from"

I am fairly new to PHP - hopefully someone can take a look and maybe point out something I am not getting??

Thanks!

<? 
if(isset($_POST['message']) && ($_POST['message'] != '')){
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $subject = "New Request";

    $recipient = "my@email.com";
    $message = $_POST["message"];

    $mailBody = 'This message is from  $name \n $message;

    mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody);
}
?>

Possible duplicate of [What is the difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446216/what-is-the-difference-between-single-quoted-and-double-quoted-strings-in-php) — Phiter, Nov 09 '16 at 11:04

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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First concat your varriable name with string.as you have passed in single quotes so php consider it as a string.

Try below code :

<? 
if(isset($_POST['message']) && ($_POST['message'] != '')){
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $subject = "New Request";

    $recipient = "my@email.com";
    $message = $_POST["message"];

    $mailBody = 'This message is from  '.$name."\r\n". $message;


    mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody);
}
?>

Also to know difference about single quotes and double quotes you can refer below link :
What is the difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings in PHP?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Nov 09 '16 at 11:03

Manthan Dave

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Don't you need double quotes with `\r\n` for them to be a line break and not just print those characters out? – M. Eriksson Nov 09 '16 at 11:06
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@magnuseriksson yes there is typo updated the answer , thanks – Manthan Dave Nov 09 '16 at 11:10

TIGER · Answer 2 · 2016-11-09T11:17:33.813

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You should use double quoted string Also take a look at this

<? 
if(isset($_POST['message']) && ($_POST['message'] != '')){
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $subject = "New Request";

    $recipient = "my@email.com";
    $message = $_POST["message"];

    $mailBody = 'This message is from  '.$name."\r\n". $message;

    mail($recipient, $subject, $mailBody);
}
?>

edited Nov 09 '16 at 11:17

answered Nov 09 '16 at 11:04

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

$mailBody = 'This message is from  '.$name.' \r\n'. $message;

OR

$mailBody = "This message is from $name\r\n$message";

The first line which you have written the variables are inside the single quote which is taking your variable as text, where as without quote or inside double quotes are able to take those as variable.

Please go through : What is the difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings in PHP?

PHP Variable not Showing up in Email from Form

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