Passing Variable Issue

[ehauser]

I am having trouble passing variables between two pages and can not see the error myself. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Form.html Page

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<form name="apply" id="apply" method="post" action="email.php">
<table width="100%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td width="48%"><p><strong>Date of Application:</strong>
      <input name="date2" type="text" id="date2" value="mm/dd/yyyy" size="50" />
      </p>
      <p><strong>Address of Organization:</strong><br />
        <textarea name="address" cols="60" rows="4">123 Road
Suite 1A
City, STATE, Zip</textarea>
      </p>
      <p><strong>Organization Name:</strong>
        <input name="orgname" type="text" id="orgname" size="75" />
      </p>
      <p><strong>Website: </strong>
        <input name="website" type="text" id="website" value="http://www.example.com" size="50" />
        <br />
    </p></td>
    <td width="52%"><p><strong><u>Contact Information:</u></strong></p>
      <p><strong>Primary Contact: </strong><br />
        <input name="NameLast" type="text" id="NameLast" value="Last Name" size="35" />
        <input name="NameFirst" type="text" id="NameFirst" value="First Name" size="35" />
        <input name="Title" type="text" id="Title" value="Title" size="35" />
        <br />
        <input name="Email" type="text" id="Email" value="Email" size="35" />
        <input name="Phone" type="text" id="Phone" value="Phone" size="35" />
        <input name="Fax" type="text" id="Fax" value="Fax" size="35" />
      </p>
      <p><strong>Secondary Contact:<br />
      </strong>
        <input name="NameLast2" type="text" id="NameLast2" value="Last Name" size="35" />
        <input name="NameFirst2" type="text" id="NameFirst2" value="First Name" size="35" />
        <input name="Title2" type="text" id="Title2" value="Title" size="35" />
        <br />
        <input name="Email2" type="text" id="Email2" value="Email" size="35" />
        <input name="Phone2" type="text" id="Phone2" value="Phone" size="35" />
        <input name="Fax2" type="text" id="Fax2" value="Fax" size="35" />
        <strong><u><br />
        <br />
        <br />
    </u></strong></p></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br />
  <hr />
  <p><strong><u>Project Information:</u></strong></p>
  <table width="100%" border="1">
    <tr>
      <td width="48%"><p><strong>Explain background of this project and why funds are needed.</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="projbkgrnd2" cols="75" rows="10" id="projbkgrnd2"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
      <td width="52%"><p><strong>What is the objective of this project?</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="projobjective2" cols="75" rows="10" id="projobjective2"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><p><strong>Please summarize the intention of this donation.</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="intention2" cols="75" rows="10" id="intention2"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
      <td><p><strong>How will you determine that this project was successful?</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="projsuccess2" cols="75" rows="10" id="projsuccess2"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><p><strong>What is your organization's formal process in determining grant requests?</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="determinerequests" cols="75" rows="10" id="determinerequests"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
      <td><p><strong>How did you hear about our foundation?</strong></p>
        <p><strong>
          <textarea name="hearaboutus" cols="75" rows="10" id="hearaboutus"></textarea>
      </strong></p></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <hr />
  <p><strong><u>Application Information:</u></strong><br />
    <br />
  </p>
  <table width="100%" border="1">
    <tr>
      <td width="48%"><strong>Total Annual Budget:</strong>
      <input name="Budget" type="text" id="Budget" value="$" size="30" />
      <br />
      <strong>Amount Being Requested: </strong>
      <input name="Request3" type="text" id="Request" value="$" size="30" />
      <br />
      <strong>Administrative Costs</strong>:
      <input name="AdminCosts" type="text" id="AdminCosts" value="$" size="30" />
      <br /></td>
      <td width="52%"><strong>Next Year's Projected Operating Budget:</strong>
      <input name="OperatingBudget" type="text" id="OperatingBudget" value="$" size="30" />
      <br />
      <strong>Fundraising Costs:</strong>
      <input name="FundCosts" type="text" id="FundCosts" value="$" size="30" />
      <br />
      <strong>Have you received previous funding from R&amp;RFFCF?</strong>
      <label>
        <select name="previousfunding" id="previousfunding">
        <option selected></option>
          <option value="Y">Yes</option>
          <option value="N">No</option>
          </select>
      </label>
<br /><input type="hidden" name="FORM2" id="FORM2" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
<p>
          <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
          <input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="Reset" /></p>
        </form>

Email.php Page

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// DECLARE VARIABLES
 //$date2 = $_POST['date2'];
 $address = $_POST['address'];
 $orgname = $_POST['orgname'];
 $website = $_POST['website'];
 $NameLast = $_POST['NameLast'];
 $NameFirst = $_POST['NameFirst'];
 $Title = $_POST['Title'];
 $Email = $_POST['Email'];
 $Phone = $_POST['Phone'];
 $Fax = $_POST['Fax'];
 $NameLast2 = $_POST['NameLast2'];
 $NameFirst2 = $_POST['NameFirst2'];
 $Title2 = $_POST['Title2'];
 $Email2 = $_POST['Email2'];
 $Phone2 = $_POST['Phone2'];
 $Fax2 = $_POST['Fax2'];
 $projbkgrnd2 = $_POST['projbkgrnd2'];
 $projobjective2 = $_POST['projobjective2'];
 $intention2 = $_POST['intention2'];
 $projsuccess2 = $_POST['projsuccess2'];
 $determinerequests = $_POST['determinerequests'];
 $hearaboutus = $_POST['hearaboutus'];
 $Budget = $_POST['Budget'];
 $Request3 = $_POST['Request3'];
 $AdminCosts = $_POST['AdminCosts'];
 $OperatingBudget = $_POST['OperatingBudget'];
 $FundCosts = $_POST['FundCosts'];
 $previousfunding = $_POST['previousfunding'];
 // END DECLARE
 
 $to = "erik@erikhauser.com";
 $subject = "GRANT APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION";
 $email = $_POST['Email'];
 $message = 'Date: '.$_POST['date2'];
 //$headers = "From: $email"; $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); if($sent) {print "Your mail was sent successfully.";} else {print "We encountered an error sending your mail";} echo '<a href="http://www.foosfoundation.com">Back Home</a>'; 

[KelvinLee18]

What are you trying to do actually? I've just tested your code in my local env and it works great.
Are you trying to send an email consisting of the inputs?

[ehauser]

Yes I want it to send an email with all of the users inputs. I have included only one of them here for testing purposes.

[KelvinLee18]

Your code looks fine. Any errors show up when you execute the code?

[ehauser]

When I tested it before, the email sent fine but the message was blank. I then commented out the send mail function and echoed just one variable that I was putting into the message to see if I was getting data through the variable. When I test it now with something like:

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echo $message;

where $message equals something like

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$message = 'Date: '.$_POST['date2']

[KelvinLee18]

Try getting rid of the $header

[ehauser]

I haven't tried getting rid of the header yet, but here is a more updated version of the code I am using for the php mail functionality...

$to = "erik@erikhauser.com";
$subject = "GRANT APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION";
$email = $_POST['Email'];
$message = 'Date: '.$_POST['date2'];
$headers = 'From: '.$_POST['Email'];
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); if($sent) {print "Your mail was sent successfully.";} else {print "We encountered an error sending your mail";} echo '<a href="http://www.foosfoundation.com">Back Home</a>';

It sends an email correctly. All I receive in the body of the email is the word "Date:" as I have above. The date the user input should be showing up after that like "Date: 10/4/11" but it shows up like "Date:".

Besides taking out the header like previously asked, am I missing something here still?

[KelvinLee18]

Well, forget about the $header thingy. Would you mind doing a var_dump($_POST) and post the results for me here?

** EDIT **
Ah, now i see the problem.
Uncomment the line $date2 = $_POST['date2'];

[ehauser]

Thanks so much for all of your help! I actually got it working with one variable. Now the problem I am running into is how to pass multiple variables in the $message section. I can't use a comma to seperate them so I am wondering what to do. Do I use an array?

Here is the code I have so far:

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// MAIL VARIABLES
 $to = "erik@erikhauser.com";
 $subject = "GRANT APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION";
 $message = 'Date: '.$_POST['date'].'\r\n';
 $headers = 'From: '.$_POST['Email'];
 $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message);
 if($sent) {print "Your mail was sent successfully.";} else {print "We encountered an error sending your mail";} echo '<a href="http://www.foosfoundation.com">Back Home</a>';

// VARIABLES TO GO IN MESSAGE SECTION BELOW"

 'Address: '.$_POST['address'].'\r\n',
 'Organization Name: '.$_POST['orgname'].'\r\n',
 'Website: '.$_POST['website'].'\r\n',
 'PRIMARY CONTACT SECTION\r\n'
 'Last Name: '.$_POST['NameLast'].'\r\n',
 'First Name: '.$_POST['NameFirst'].'\r\n',
 'Title: '.$_POST['Title'].'\r\n',
 'Email: '.$_POST['Email'].'\r\n',
 'Phone: '.$_POST['Phone'].'\r\n',
 'Fax: '.$_POST['Fax'].'\r\n',
 'SECONDARY CONTACT SECTION\r\n'
 'Last Name 2: '.$_POST['NameLast2'].'\r\n',
 'First Name 2: '.$_POST['NameFirst2'].'\r\n',
 'Title 2: '.$_POST['Title2'].'\r\n',
 'Email 2: '.$_POST['Email2'].'\r\n',
 'Phone 2: '.$_POST['Phone2'].'\r\n',
 'Fax 2: '.$_POST['Fax2'].'\r\n',
 'PROJECT INFORMATION SECTION\r\n'
 'Project Background: '.$_POST['projbkgrnd2'].'\r\n',
 'Project Objective: '.$_POST['projobjective2'].'\r\n',
 'Intention: '.$_POST['intention2'].'\r\n',
 'Project Success: '.$_POST['projsuccess2'].'\r\n',
 'Determine Requests: '.$_POST['determinerequests'].'\r\n',
 'Hear About Us: '.$_POST['hearaboutus'].'\r\n',
 'APPLICATION INFORMATION SECTION\r\n'
 'Budget: '.$_POST['Budget'].'\r\n',
 'Request: '.$_POST['Request3'].'\r\n',
 'Administrative Costs: '.$_POST['AdminCosts'].'\r\n',
 'Operating Budget: '.$_POST['OperatingBudget'].'\r\n',
 'Funding Costs: '.$_POST['FundCosts'].'\r\n',
 'Previous Funding: '.$_POST['previousfunding'].'\r\n';

[egami]

$message = "Hello";
$message .= " ";
$message .= "World!";

echo $message

[ehauser]

Ahh... I was unaware that you can set a variable like that to different things.

Oh I see you're concatenating it...

Thanks!

[ehauser]

Is there another way to set the MIME-Version and the Content-type without using $headers? My email code works fine, until I add in the headers...

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$headers = 'From: '.$_POST['Email'];
 $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0"."\r\n";
 $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"."\r\n";
 $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

I even tried commenting out the "From" part of the headers. It tells me the mail sent successfully but I never get the email.

[egami]

you don't have a return / new-line at the end of your FROM.

[egami]

I would also try to follow the RFC 2822 standards of SMTP protocol, and put the 'from' after the other headers.

For further help, try http://www.php.net/mail



enjoy.

[ehauser]

Thanks so much! I've tried putting the "From" after the other headers... but I try putting the new line at the end of the "From" and see what happens. The form sends just fine if I comment/take out the headers. We will see what happens.

Thanks again!

[ehauser]

I have tried the suggestions and the script says the email has been sent successfully but I never receive the email. I have not checked my spam but I'm sending the email internally on my server so I would think it would come straight to me.

Again, if I take out the headers, the email sends just fine.

Here is the full code to send the email:

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// MAIL VARIABLES
 $to = "erik@mysite.com";
 $subject = "GRANT APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION";
 $message = 'FORM INFORMATION'."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Date Submitted: '.$_POST['date']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Address: '.$_POST['address']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Organization Name: '.$_POST['orgname']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Website: '.$_POST['website']."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'PRIMARY CONTACT SECTION'."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Last Name: '.$_POST['NameLast']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'First Name: '.$_POST['NameFirst']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Title: '.$_POST['Title']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Email: '.$_POST['Email']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Phone: '.$_POST['Phone']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Fax: '.$_POST['Fax']."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'SECONDARY CONTACT SECTION'."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Last Name 2: '.$_POST['NameLast2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'First Name 2: '.$_POST['NameFirst2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Title 2: '.$_POST['Title2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Email 2: '.$_POST['Email2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Phone 2: '.$_POST['Phone2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Fax 2: '.$_POST['Fax2']."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'PROJECT INFORMATION SECTION'."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Project Background: '.$_POST['projbkgrnd2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Project Objective: '.$_POST['projobjective2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Intention: '.$_POST['intention2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Project Success: '.$_POST['projsuccess2']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Determine Requests: '.$_POST['determinerequests']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Hear About Us: '.$_POST['hearaboutus']."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'APPLICATION INFORMATION SECTION'."\r\n";
 $message .= ' '."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Budget: '.$_POST['Budget']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Request: '.$_POST['Request3']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Administrative Costs: '.$_POST['AdminCosts']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Operating Budget: '.$_POST['OperatingBudget']."\r\n";
 $message .= 'Funding Costs: '.$_POST['FundCosts']."\r\n"; 
 $message .= 'Previous Funding: '.$_POST['previousfunding']."\r\n";
 
// HEADER FIELDS
 $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
 $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
 $headers .= 'From: <email@email.com>' . "\r\n";

// SEND THE MESSAGE AND GIVE FEEDBACK TO USER
 $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
 if($sent) {print "Thank you, your application has been submitted. Applications can take up to six weeks to process. You will be notified by email of the final status.";} else {print "We encountered an error sending your mail";} echo '<br /><a href="http://www.foosfoundation.com">Back Home</a>';

[egami]

The sniplet you have sends mail through my system, however; I would encourage you to follow the HTML mail examples on PHP.net

[ehauser]

Thanks, I had thought about that originally and am now playing with that code.

Just to double-check, am I passing the variables through correctly? I can't test it until tonight, and I wast to make sure I am going about it the right way before I get done with it...

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// multiple recipients
$to  = 'test@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'test2@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p><b>SUBMISSION DATA:</b></p>
  <br /><br />
  <p><b><u>Form Information</u></b></p><br />
  <p><b>Date Submitted:</b> <? $_POST["date"] ?><br />
  <b>Address:</b> <? $_POST["address"] ?><br />
  <b>Organization Name:</b> <? $_POST["orgname"] ?><br />
  <b>Website:</b> <? $_POST["website"] ?><br /></p><br />
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Erik <erik@test.com>, Erik Hauser <ehauser@testemail.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Form Submission <webmaster@test.com>' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

[egami]

That should do it

[ehauser]

Thanks for all of your help, much appreciated!