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    copied!<p>I have a application form on my website and when someone fills one out it works fine with all data properly sent over, however multiple times a day we are getting completely blank emails. (client is CONVINCED that its people filling out the form and its sending it blank randomly removing their information - i dont think thats possible)</p> <p>Here are snippets of my code:</p> <pre><code>if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") { if (trim($_POST['fname']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your first name"; } if (trim($_POST['lname']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your last name"; } if (trim($_POST['address1']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your address"; } if (trim($_POST['city']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your city"; } if (trim($_POST['state']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your state"; } if (trim($_POST['zip']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your zip code"; } if (trim($_POST['email']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your email"; } if (trim($_POST['phone']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your phone number"; } if (trim($_POST['school']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your High School"; } if (trim($_POST['school_study']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your course of study"; } if (trim($_POST['school_years']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your school years completed"; } if (trim($_POST['school_degree']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter your diploma/degree"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_telephone']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Telephone"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_title']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Title"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_supervisor']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Supervisor"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_from']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Start Date"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_to']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 End Date"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_salary']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Salary"; } if (trim($_POST['employer1_duties']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please enter Employer #1 Duties"; } if (trim($_POST['sig2']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please complete the Signature Field"; } if (trim($_POST['date2']) == "") { $errors[] = "Please complete the Date Field"; } if(is_array($errors)) { echo '&lt;div class="error"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The following errors occurred:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;'; while (list($key,$value) = each($errors)) { echo '&lt;li&gt;'.$value.'&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'; }echo'&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'; } else { require_once('recaptchalib.php'); $privatekey = "(private key thing here not sure if that should be shared)"; $resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey, $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], $_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"], $_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]); if (!$resp-&gt;is_valid) { // What happens when the CAPTCHA was entered incorrectly die ("The reCAPTCHA wasn't entered correctly. Go back and try it again." . "(reCAPTCHA said: " . $resp-&gt;error . ")"); } else { // convert the application to a pdf. not going to include all this jarble // also insert the application into a database - not including $mpdf=new mPDF(); $mpdf-&gt;WriteHTML($html); $content = $mpdf-&gt;Output('', 'S'); $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content)); $eol = PHP_EOL; $mailto = "$setting[apps_email]"; $from_name = 'Employment Application'; $from_mail = 'no-reply'; $replyto = 'no-reply'; $uid = md5(uniqid(time())); $subject = "".$row[fname]." ".$row[lname]." - ".$row1[position].""; $filename = "".$row[fname]."".$row[lname]."-".$row[submitted].".pdf"; $header = "From: ".$from_name." &lt;".$from_mail."&gt;".$eol; $header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto.$eol; $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"".$eol; $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol; $message .= "--".$uid.$eol; $message .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n"; $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n"; $message .= $eol."".$row[fname]." ".$row[lname]." has submitted an employment application for the ".$row1[position]." position. Please see the attached .pdf file to save and/or print the application.".$eol; $message .= "--".$uid.$eol; $message .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n"; $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n"; $message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment".$eol.$eol; $message .= $eol.$content; $message .= "--".$uid."--".$eol; $is_sent = @mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $header); } }} </code></pre> <p>I feel like i've taken every measure against this with making sure it was submitted first, validating required fields, and i even threw on a stupid captcha that i hate doing</p> <p>any idea why (i'm assuming crawlers) are sending blank emails?</p>
 

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