Sending HTML form data via E-Mail

Question

I have created a HTML form and want to send its data via email using PHP without the use of outlook etc however, once i have uploaded my site to the server the information isn't sent. Could you please look at my code and advise where i am going wrong please.

<form action="Php/form.php" method="post" name="Contact_Form" >

           <label for="fullname">Full Name: </label> 
           <input type="text" name="Full_Name" id="name"><br>

            <label for="E-Mail">E-Mail: </label>
           <input type="text" name="E-Mail" id="email" ><br>

            <label for="PhoneNumber">Phone Number: </label> 
           <input type="text" name="Phone_Number" id="phonenumber" ><br>

            <label for="Query">Query: </label> 
           <textarea name="Query" rows="4" cols="21" id="query" ></textarea><br>


           <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" >

         </form>```

```PHP
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
  $emailSubject = 'Website Query';
  $mainEmail = 'r1bos@hotmail.com';

    $nameField = $_POST['Full_Name'];
    $emailField = $_POST['E-Mail'};
    $phoneField = $_POST['Phone_Number'];
    $textField = $_POST ['Query'];

    $body = <<<EOD
<br><hr>
Name: $name <br>
Email: $email <br>
Phone Number: $phone <br>
Query: $text <br>
EOD;

      $headers = "From: $email\r\n";
      $headers .="Content-type: text/html\r\n";  
      $success = mail($mainEmail, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);


          $result = 'Your question has been sent';               
         echo "$result";
 }     
?>```

Answer 1 · 2014-07-30T15:34:00Z

July 30, 2014 3:34pm

I see a couple things that look off to me.

The value you're setting for the $body variable looks screwy because I've never used the EOD. Have you tried doing something simple like this to as a test?

$body = "This is the body of the email";

Have you tried not assigning a value to $success and just doing this:

mail($mainEmail, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

You should probably only set the $result variable if mail() succeeds.

if ($success) { $result = 'Your question has been sent';
echo "$result"; }

You might also try echoing out the variables before calling mail() to make sure all the variables are getting set correctly.

I'm no expert, but hope that helps.

Brett

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