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PHP

Jacob Wick
Jacob Wick
8,912 Points

Hi! My email field is returning a blank string, regardless of what I do. I'm not sure how to resolve this. Any ideas?

I've already tried changing the input type to "email." Is there some kind of privacy setting on Chrome that is just blocking the email address?

<?php 
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$details = $_POST["details"];

var_dump($name, $email, $details);

include('inc/header.php'); ?>

<div class="section page">
  <div class="wrapper">
    <h1>Suggest a Media Item</h1>
    <?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) && $_GET["status"] == "thanks") {
       echo "<p>Thanks for your e-mail! I&rsaquo;ll check out your suggestion shortly.</p>";
      } else { ?>
    <p>If you think there is something I&rsquo;m missing, let me know! Complete the form to send me an email.</p>
    <form method="post" action="suggest.php">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <th><label for="name">Name</label></th>
          <td><input type="text" id="name" name="name" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th><label for="email">Email</label></th>
            <td><input type="text" id="email" name="email" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><label for="details">Details</label></th>
          <td><textarea name="details" id="details"></textarea></td>
        </tr> 
        <tr style="display:none">
          <th><label for="address">Address</label></th>
          <td><input type="text" id="email" name="email" /></td>
          <p>Please leave this field blank.</p>
        </tr>      
       </table>
      <input type="submit" value="Send" />
    </form>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>
Emmanuel C
Emmanuel C
10,636 Points

One thing i noticed was that you have 2 input fields with that same id. html elements should never have the same ids, thats the point of having ids; it makes them unique.

1 Answer

Jacob Wick
Jacob Wick
8,912 Points

Found the answer to my own questions. First, I'd carelessly left the "id=" and "name=" for the honeypot "Address" field to "email." Second, I removed the / from the end of the input field for email. That finally returned the email. Now I can move on!