Why is my php script not picking up data from form?

idhrahil · **Why is my php script not picking up data from form? -** 06-05-2012, 11:52 AM

I have created an html form, and am looking to create various php scripts to process the data. However, nothing seems to be working.

My form is something like this:

Quote:

<form name="Contact_Form" method="post" action="contactform.php" enctype="text/plain" id="Form1" onsubmit="return ValidateContact_Form(this)">
<div id="bv_Text4" style="margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;left:3 0px;top:23px;width:179px;height:41px;text-align:left;z-index:0;">
<font style="font-size:43px;background-color:#FFFFFF" color="#000045" face="LilyUPC">Name:</font></div>
<input type="text" id="Editbox1" style="position:absolute;left:250px;top:21px;width :343px;height:43px;border:1px #C0C0C0 solid;color:#000045;font-family:LilyUPC;font-size:43px;z-index:1" name="name" value="">
<div id="bv_Text6" style="margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;left:3 0px;top:73px;width:207px;height:41px;text-align:left;z-index:2;">
<font style="font-size:43px;background-color:#FFFFFF" color="#000045" face="LilyUPC">E-mail address:</font></div>
<input type="text" id="Editbox2" style="position:absolute;left:250px;top:71px;width :343px;height:43px;border:1px #C0C0C0 solid;color:#000045;font-family:LilyUPC;font-size:43px;z-index:3" name="email" value="">
<div id="bv_Text7" style="margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;left:3 0px;top:123px;width:207px;height:41px;text-align:left;z-index:4;">
<font style="font-size:43px;background-color:#FFFFFF" color="#000045" face="LilyUPC">Message:</font></div>
<textarea name="message" id="TextArea1" style="position:absolute;left:30px;top:173px;width :563px;height:148px;border:1px #C0C0C0 solid;color:#000045;font-family:LilyUPC;font-size:43px;z-index:5" rows="2" cols="44"></textarea>
<input type="submit" id="Button1" name="Button1" value="Submit" style="position:absolute;left:30px;top:348px;width :75px;height:24px;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;z-index:6">
</form>

When I run contactform.php, it doesn't pick up any of the values from the form. I have tried even the most basic manipulation - printing Hello "name", for instance - but the data never shows up. For instance, if I use:

Quote:

<html>
<body>
Welcome <?php print $_POST["email"]; ?>
</body>
</html>

all that is displayed is "Welcome ".

Am I doing something really stupid? I've played around with it for hours now. Or is it something to do with the server/hosting account that I don't know about?

dx4 · 01:54 PM

Remove the

enctype="text/plain"

from the form tag.

It should work after you remove this.

idhrahil · 06-05-2012, 01:16 PM

Cheers, that works great. I thought I'd already tried that, but apparently not. What a waste of time! Thanks very much.

idhrahil · 12:51 PM

So, I have a very similar problem once again. I have a form which includes password entry boxes, which look something like this:

HTML Code:

<form name="Survey" method="post" action="formprocessor.php" id="Form1">
...
<div id="bv_Text22" style="margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;left:9px;top:551px;width:998px;height:16px;text-align:left;z-index:36;">
<font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000" face="Arial"><b>6. What is your favourite colour?</b></font></div>
<input type="password" id="Editbox1" style="position:absolute;left:44px;top:574px;width:298px;height:20px;border:1px #C0C0C0 solid;font-family:'Courier New';font-size:16px;z-index:37" name="Question 6" value="">
...
</form>

I'm trying to e-mail the results using a php script, but the e-mail just gives me blank spaces instead of the values entered, and I can't work out why. The field names are unique.

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$data1 = $_POST["Question 6"];
$data2 = $_POST["Question 8.1"];
$data3 = $_POST["Question 8.2"];
$data4 = $_POST["Question 8.3"];
$data5 = $_POST["Question 8.4"];
$data6 = $_POST["Question 8.5"];

$to = "name@example.com";

$subject = "subject";

$message = "Data given was: " . $data1 . ", " . $data2 . ", " . $data3 . ", " . $data4 . ", " . $data5 . ", " . $data6;
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

mail($to,$subject,$message);

header ("location: complete.php")

?>

Can anyone tell me what is going on? The result I get in the e-mail is:

Quote:

Data given was: , , , , ,

d3iti · 07-17-2012, 12:49 PM

Hello,

You can try (test mode) to add this statement at the beginning:

PHP Code:


			
 print_r($_POST);

It also checks if the id property of input is equal to the name property of input.

idhrahil · 07-17-2012, 12:57 PM

Thanks for your help.

I've managed to work out what the problem was: it didn't like the space in the name, all solved by replacing it with an underscore.