Hi! here is my problem . I'm a psychology student and i'm trying to do a survey on my friends from my YM list . I want to send them forms in their inbox and they will answer back .

My form looks like this :

<form method="post" action="http://mysite.com/feedback.php">
  Question1 <input name="question1" type="text" /><br />
  Question2 <input name="question2" type="text" /><br />
  <input  type="submit" />
</form>

My feedback.php looks like this :

<?php
  $Question1 = $_REQUEST['Question1'] ;
  $Question2 = $_REQUEST['Question2'] ;

  mail( "mymail@gmail.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $Question1,  $Question2 );
  header( "Location: http://www.mysite.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

Bassically , i'm trying to write a simple code , just something to help me in my study . The purpose of the study is to send this form by email , not post it on a web page (and i want to learn some html). So far , i've managed to make it work , by testing it in a browser .But when i try to test it in an email client , the result from my .php comes back empty . I have observed that , the mail client changes my html code , and removes the " " , and the code of my form looks like this after being introduced in a mail client :

<FORM action=http://mysite.com/feedback.php method=post>Question1 <INPUT name=question1><BR>Question <INPUT name=question2><BR><INPUT type=submit value="Submit Query"> </FORM>

How can i stop the mail client from changing my code . Or how can i improve my code to make this work .

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I see what you're trying to do but sending a form in the email is going to cause you a lot of problems. I would just link to a already built web form.

For the Form to Email part - I'd suggest using http://www.formmailhosting.com. they have an option where you can have them host the form for you. The you just have to email out the link.

The results will be emailed to you and stored in a MS Excel file.

Hope this helps.

MARK

Many email clients, and some email services, block html.

Never expect a recipient to get email in web page form.

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