I can only get four variable sent to my email. Not the rest?

PHP
1

Hello,

I am writing my first php script (of course) and it works except it only shows 4 variables.
Example I have it to send me:
mail($myemail, $fullname, $email, $message, $phone);
But it will only send me the first four no matter what order they are in. It’s driving me crazy. I can’t think or find any reason why it would do this.

If I change it to
mail($myemail, $fullname, $email, $phone, $message);
It will send me everything but $message
if I change it to
mail($myemail, $fullname, $message, $email, $phone );
It will send me everything but $phone

Does anyone know why or what I need to change? I apologize if this sounds like a dumb question. I am very very new to php.

Thank you for any guidance you can give. Here is the code:
HTML:

<form action="Contact.php" method="post" id="contact" name="contact" style="margin:0px";>
<h2>Contact Form:</h2>
<p>Fields marked (<span style="color:#F00;">*</span>) are required.</p>

<label for="text_fullname">Full Name<span style="color:#F00;">*</span>:</label>
<input name="fullname" type="text" class="input" id="fullname" tabindex="1" />
<label for="text_email">Email<span style="color:#F00;">*</span>:</label>
<input name="email" type="text" class="input" id="email" tabindex="2" />

<label for="text_phone">Phone:</label>
<input name="phone" type="text" class="input" id="phone" tabindex="3" />

<label for="text_comments">Message/Comment:</label>
<textarea name="message" cols="23" rows="3" class="input" id="message" tabindex="4"></textarea>
<br>

<div style="padding-left:200px;">
<button type="submit" id="send" name="send">Send!</button> &nbsp;&nbsp; <button type="reset">Reset</button>
</div>

</form>

PHP:

<?php
/* Set e-mail recipient */
$myemail = "myemailaddress@gmail.com";

$fullname = $_POST['fullname'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$phone = $_POST['phone'] ;
$message = $_POST['message'] ;

mail($myemail, $fullname, $email, $message, $phone);
header( "Location: http://www.ppm-oc.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

Thank you

2

I do something like this:

mail ($myemail, $subject, $body, "From: \\"$fullname\\" <$email>" . "\\r\
" . "Reply-To: \\"$fullname\\" <$email>");

Then you set the $body variable somewhat like this:

$body = 
	"Name of sender: $fullname\
\
" .
	"-----------------------------------------------------------\
\
" .
	"Email of sender: $email\
\
" .
	"-----------------------------------------------------------\
\
" .
	"Telephone of sender: $phone\
\
" .
	"-----------------------------------------------------------\
\
" .
	"Message:\
\
" .
	"$message" ;

So, most of the info you collect is carried by the $body variable, and this is what appears in the body of the email sent to you.

3

in addition, this tutorial on how to send plain text emails, HTML emails and emails with attachments might help.

4

I was also told I can’t use phone as a parameter and it should look more like this:

<?php
$to = ‘nobody@example.com’;
$subject = ‘the subject’;
$message = ‘hello’;
$headers = ‘From: webmaster@example.com’ . "\r
" .
‘Reply-To: webmaster@example.com’ . "\r
" .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion();

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

I so appreciate your advice! I will get back this post and let you know.

5

Thank you Ralph.m! That was very helpful. This is what I ended up with that worked. I tried SO many different ways. So I’m not sure if my code is correct or sloppy, but it does work:

<?php
$myemail = “mymail@gmail.com”;

$fullname = $_POST[‘fullname’] ;
$email = $_POST[‘email’] ;
$phone = $_POST[‘phone’] ;
$message = $_POST[‘message’] ;

$msg = 'Name: '.$fullname."
“;
$msg .= 'Email: '.$email.”
“;
$msg .= 'Phone: '.$phone.”

“;
$msg .= 'Message: '.$message.”
";

mail($myemail, ‘New message from contact form’, $msg);
header( “Location: http://www.ppm-oc.com/thankyou.html” );
?>

6

That looks OK, although this

$msg = 'Name: '.$fullname."\
";
$msg .= 'Email: '.$email."\
";
$msg .= 'Phone: '.$phone."\
\
";
$msg .= 'Message: '.$message."\
";

could be simplified to this:

$msg = 
    "Name: $fullname\
" .
    "Email: $email\
" . 
    "Phone: $phone\
\
" . 
    "Message: $message\
";
7

ahhhh… I see. Thank you. I will shorten that!

Thanks a million and 10!!!