$_POST not working

[stevenryals]

Trying to send an email via a form post

using firebug, i could see the posted data coming across 100%..

here's the code for my php file that i'm posting the data to:

name, phone, email, company & comment all coming through the post 100% clean.. just can't seem to get the values into my variables..
doing a var_dump comes back NULL...

 
        $email_to = "email@email.com";
	$email_subject = "New Contact From **.COM";
	$name = $_POST['name']; 
	$phone = $_POST['phone']; 
	$email = $_POST['email']; 
	$company = $_POST['company'];
	$comment = $_POST['comment']; 
	$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
	$email_message .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
	$email_message .= "Phone #: ".$phone."\n";
	$email_message .= "Email: ".$email."\n";
	$email_message .= "Company: ".$company."\n";
	$email_message .= "Comment: ".$comment."\n";

		if (mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message)) {
		echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
		}
		else ("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");

[mlseim]

What happens if you do only this ...

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo "Name: ".$name;
?>

Does it show the name from the form?

[stevenryals]

Originally Posted by mlseim

What happens if you do only this ...

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo "Name: ".$name;
?>

Does it show the name from the form?

no.. it sure doesn't..

here is the post from firebug:

name=TEST
phone=ING
email=MAIL
company=FORM
comment=commentboxblahblahblah

when i do a var_dump($_POST); i get:
array(0) { }


??

[AndrewGSW]

Silly question: you are using method "post" rather than "get"..?

[stevenryals]

Yes, I am.

Now, this is very interesting indeed.. i've added this to the file:

print "CONTENT_TYPE: " . $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] . "<BR />";
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
print "DATA: <pre>";
var_dump($data);
var_dump($_POST);
print "</pre>";

and I get this:

CONTENT_TYPE: text/plain
DATA:

string(71) "name=TEST
phone=ING
email=MAIL
company=FORM
comment=commentboxblahblahblah
"
array(0) {
}

so using php://input works just fine, but the post is not finding the values...

thoughts?

[stevenryals]

ok.. figured out..

it was sending content type plain/text
had to change to application/x-www-form-urlencoded...

that fixed it..