Emails can't read PHP

Hi,
I have set up a comments page on my site using PHP. When comments are entered
and emailed to me, the comments are not shown, but the "you were sent a message
by" does.

My web space supports PHP, but do I need to install anything on my PC for it
to read the results.
I have had checks on the PHP code, and it seems to be fine.

Please help...Thanks

I'm assuming you're using a script freely available?

Or if you're using a script you've written yourself, it would help if we could
see the code, because there is little any of us can do without actually knowing
what we're dealing with, "set up a comments page on my site using PHP" doesn't
tell us as much as you have imagined, thats essentially the same as telling us
you've built a chair using a hammer and telling us the leg is broken

But for more "real" advice... check the code that interacts with the mailer,
is it meant to forward the message? If so, check you haven't accidentally
truncated the message string before the message variable is inserted, but
untill you pass on some more information, thats all I can't really suggest,
sorry

-W3bbo

This is the PHP used
<?
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];
$to="aesstevenson (AT) aol (DOT) com";
$message="$name just filled in your comments form. They
said:\n$comments\n\nTheir e-mail address was: $email";
if(mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n")) {
echo "Thank you for your comments.";
} else {
echo "There was a problem sending your comments. Please ensure you completed
the form correctly.";
}
?>

"just filled in your comments form. They said" appears in the email, but not
the user input.

AESS1981 wrote:

This is the PHP used
?
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];

Try this, I **know** it works

<?php if ($_POST){ if
(mail("YOU (AT) YOU (DOT) COM",$_POST['subject'],stripslashes($_POST['body']),"From:
".$_POST['email']."\r\n")){ ?>
<p>Your message is now on it's way to me.</p>
<h2>You said:</h2>
<blockquote>“<?php echo "$body" ?>”.</blockquote>
<?php }else{ ?>
<p>Message Failed,plaease try again later.</p>
<?php } }else{ ?>
<form action="<?PHP echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
name="mailform" id="mailform">
<fieldset title="Send Me Some Mail">
<legend>Send Me Some Mail</legend>
<label for="subject">Subject:</label>
<br />
<select name="subject" id="subject">
<option selected="selected">Enquiry</option>
<option>Suggestion</option>
<option>Praise</option>
<option>Whatever</option>
</select>
<br />
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<br />
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="Your email here" />
<br />
<label for="body">Message:</label>
<br />
<textarea name="body" cols="30" rows="12" id="body">Message you wish to
send</textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send" id="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php } ?>

The code you gave works just fine for me. Somethings you may want to look
for:
-In your form tag, is the method tag set to "post"? (not "get")
-Are the form fields called "name", "email" and "comments"?


"AESS1981" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

This is the PHP used
?
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];
$to="aesstevenson (AT) aol (DOT) com";
$message="$name just filled in your comments form. They
said:\n$comments\n\nTheir e-mail address was: $email";
if(mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n")) {
echo "Thank you for your comments.";
} else {
echo "There was a problem sending your comments. Please ensure you
completed
the form correctly.";
}
?

"just filled in your comments form. They said" appears in the email, but
not
the user input.

I'm not exactly a PHP expert (as I usually lie in .Net) but I think you
may
have your slashes the wrong way around in your $message string

They are correct.

...And I'm not exactly sure how PHP reacts to having special characters
next
to string names

Don't think it matters. The code given works for me.

AESS1981 wrote:

$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];

What version of PHP is the server running? If it is older than 4.1.0,
the $_POST array did not exist and you needed to use $HTTP_POST_VARS
instead:

$name=$HTTP_POST_VARS['name'];
$email=$HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
$comments=$HTTP_POST_VARS['comments'];

You can find out the PHP version using the phpinfo() function, the
phpversion() function, or the PHP_VERSION variable.


Gary