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Sep 14th, 2009
I'm just new in php actually and this is the problem that i have been encountering lately. I actually have one .html file and .php file, on the .html file I created a form which looks like this:
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  1. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" border="0" width="500" align="center">
  2. 	    <form name="FAQ" method="post" action="question.php">
  3. 	    <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;font-weight: normal;font-variant: normal;text-transform: none;color: #000000;"> 
  4. 	    <tr>
  5. 			<td width="150"><p class="content">Name: * </td>
  6. 			<td width="350"><input type="text" size="55" name="name"></td>
  7. 	    </tr>
  8. 	    <tr>
  9. 			<td width="150"><p class="content">Email Address: * </td>
  10. 			<td width="350"><input type="text" size="55" name="email"></td>
  11. 	    </tr>
  12. 	    <tr>
  13. 			<td width="150"><p class="content">Question: * </td>
  14. 	    </tr>
  15. 	    <tr>
  16. 			<td width="350" colspan="2"><textarea cols="59" rows="5"></textarea name="question"></td>
  17. 	    </tr>
  18. 	    <tr>
  19. 			<td colspan="2" align="right"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></td>
  20. 	    </tr>
  21. 	    <tr>
  22. 			<td>&nbsp;</td>
  23. 	    </tr>
  24. 	    </form>
  25. 	    </table>

And here is the .php file:

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  1. <?php
  2. 	if (isset($_POST["submit"]))
  3. 	{
  4. 		$name = $_POST['name'];
  5. 		$email = $_POST['email'];
  6. 		$question = $_POST['question'];
  7. 		$message = "Message from $name \n Message: $question";
  8.  
  9. 		mail($email,Inquiry,$message);	
  10. 		echo "Message sent.";		
  11. 	}
  12. 	else
  13. 	{	
  14. 		echo "Sending failed, please input the required fields.";
  15. 	}
  16. ?>

The problem that i'm encountering here is, in each textbox in the.html file i just live it blank, once that i click on the "Submit" button, the output that would be displayed is "Message sent.", instead of "Sending failed, please input the required fields."

Please help me here.. Thanks, been trying to solve it for almost 6hours already, and still i get the same output.

thanks in advance.
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you should have check first if the fields are not empty?

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  1. <?php
  2. // you should check if this fields are empty
  3. if($_POST['name']=="" || $_POST['email']=="" || $_POST['question']=="")
  4. {
  5. echo "Sending failed, please input the required fields.";
  6. }else{
  7. $name = $_POST['name'];
  8. $email = $_POST['email'];
  9. $question = $_POST['question'];
  10. $message = "Message from $name \n Message: $question";
  11. if(mail($email,Inquiry,$message))
  12. echo "Message sent."; 
  13. else
  14. echo "Message sending failed";
  15. }

For now, you might already get the idea. Hope it helps
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I used the code that you suggested but nothing has been displayed or no output at all. What is the use of the isset() function in the if-else statement then?
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Originally Posted by JerieLsky View Post
I used the code that you suggested but nothing has been displayed or no output at all. What is the use of the isset() function in the if-else statement then?
you are checking if the post method has been set or is the submit button been submitted.
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Ahm, what is then the problem on the code why does it not display anything?
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the problem is, this part

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  1. <td width="350" colspan="2"><textarea cols="59" rows="5"></textarea name="question"></td>

try changing it to this

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  1. <td width="350" colspan="2"><textarea cols="59" rows="5" name="question"></textarea></td>

and use the code that i've given earlier
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Seriously, still no output. I even tried adding this statement in the .php file
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  1. echo "Me";
it actually showed nothing. I added that statement after the <?php tag and before the if-else statement, here:
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  1. <?php
  2. 	echo "Me";
  3. 	if($_POST['name']=="" || $_POST['email']=="" || $_POST['question']=="")
  4. 	{
  5. 		echo "Sending failed, please input the required fields.";
  6. 	}
  7. 	else
  8. 	{
  9. 		$name = $_POST['name'];
  10. 		$email = $_POST['email'];
  11. 		$question = $_POST['question'];
  12. 		$message = "Message from $name \n Message: $question";
  13.  
  14. 		if(mail($email,Inquiry,$message))
  15. 			echo "Message sent.";
  16. 		else
  17. 			echo "Message sending failed";
  18. 	}
  19. ?>

so confusing..
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Originally Posted by JerieLsky View Post
Seriously, still no output. I even tried adding this statement in the .php file
PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. echo "Me";
it actually showed nothing. I added that statement after the <?php tag and before the if-else statement, here:
PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. <?php
  2. 	echo "Me";
  3. 	if($_POST['name']=="" || $_POST['email']=="" || $_POST['question']=="")
  4. 	{
  5. 		echo "Sending failed, please input the required fields.";
  6. 	}
  7. 	else
  8. 	{
  9. 		$name = $_POST['name'];
  10. 		$email = $_POST['email'];
  11. 		$question = $_POST['question'];
  12. 		$message = "Message from $name \n Message: $question";
  13.  
  14. 		if(mail($email,Inquiry,$message))
  15. 			echo "Message sent.";
  16. 		else
  17. 			echo "Message sending failed";
  18. 	}
  19. ?>

so confusing..

do you have a mailserver? i tested your code on my machine.. and im sure that it is working.

try removing the mail function then try outputting just plain text
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  1. if(mail($email,Inquiry,$message))

try changing the 'inquiry'
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this is what i did in the .php file, i omitted the contents and i just replaced it with this statement but still no output:

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  1. <?php
  2.    echo "Me.";
  3. ?>

what do u think is causing the problem?
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