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    <p>I am new to both HTML 5 and especially PHP, I have been trying to get a test email sent to me with the information in the form. I get a blank email and when checking the Apache logs it shows undefined variable from the PHP form handler.</p> <p>HTML form:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="formstyleb.css"&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="css/validationEngine.jquery.css" type="text/css"/&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.9.1.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="jquery.validate.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form action="formemail.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain" id="contact"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;Your Contact Details:&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;label for="author"&gt;Name:(Required)&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input name="author" class="required name" id="author" type="text" title="Please Enter Your Name!"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email Address:(Required)&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input name="email"class="required email" id="email" type="text" title="Please Enter a Valid email Address!"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;label for="comment"&gt;Comment:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea rows="12" id="message" name="comment"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;button type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit as Multipart/form-data"&gt; &lt;img src="submit1.jpg" alt="Submit"&gt; &lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;button type="reset" id="reset"&gt; &lt;img src="resetrs.jpg" alt="reset"&gt; &lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jqformval.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>PHP handler:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php ini_set('display_errors',1); /*stops undefined index error*/ if(isset($_POST['email'],$_POST['author'],$_POST['comment'] )) { $email = $_POST['email']; $author = $_POST['author']; $visitor_email = $_POST['email']; $comment = $_POST['comment']; $comment = wordwrap($comment, 70); } $email_from = 'xxxx@yyyy.com'; $email_subject = "Form Submission"; $email_body = "Message from $author.\n". "The message reads:\n $comment". $to = "xxxx@yyyy.com"; $headers = "From: $email_from \r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n"; mail($to,$email_subject,$comment,$headers); header( "Location: Thank You.html" ); ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COno surprise, you build `$email_body` and then never use it. the rest of your $_POST-based vars are only defined if certain conditions are met, but even if the conditions AREN'T met, you still send the email.
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    2. COYour `mail` function is not using `$email_body`, but `$comment`
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    3. COUse `$_POST['message']` not `$_POST['comment']` you should reference the id and not the name
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