Need help with my contact form

PHP
1

Hello, I had a problem with my contact form. when a user sends me the message through contact form they will be sent through my mail. But in my mail it is showing as:

Subject: New message from a site visitor
From:
Email:
Message:

It is not showing the details of from, email and message. Please review the codes ones and help to overcome this problem. Thank you in advance

Contact Form (HTML)

							<input type="text" class="text" value="Name..." onFocus="this.value = '';" onBlur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Name...';}">
				 			<input type="text" class="text" value="Email..." onFocus="this.value = '';" onBlur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Email...';}">
				 	 		<textarea value="Message:" onFocus="this.value = '';" onBlur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Message';}">Message..</textarea>
							<input class="wow shake" data-wow-delay="0.3s" type="submit" value="Send Message" />
						</form>
					</div>

PHP

<?php
$field_name = $_POST['cf_name'];
$field_email = $_POST['cf_email'];
$field_message = $_POST['cf_message'];

$mail_to = 'ajith.k06@live.in';
$subject = 'Message from a site visitor '.$field_name;

$body_message = 'Name: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;

$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";

$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

if ($mail_status) { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');
		window.location = 'index.html#contact';
	</script>
<?php
}
else { ?>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		alert('Message failed. Please, send an email to mail@example.com');
		window.location = 'index.html#contact';
	</script>
<?php
}
?>
2

Hi
You have to try this one… or compare your one with it to solve the problem…

 <?php

//Retrieve form data. 
//GET - user submitted data using AJAX
//POST - in case user does not support javascript, we'll use POST instead
$name = ($_GET['name']) ? $_GET['name'] : $_POST['name'];
$email = ($_GET['email']) ?$_GET['email'] : $_POST['email'];
$phone = ($_GET['phone']) ?$_GET['phone'] : $_POST['phone'];
$website = ($_GET['website']) ?$_GET['website'] : $_POST['website'];
$message = ($_GET['message']) ?$_GET['message'] : $_POST['message'];

//flag to indicate which method it uses. If POST set it to 1
if ($_POST) $post=1;

//Simple server side validation for POST data, of course, you should validate the email
if (!$name) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your name.';
if (!$email) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your email.'; 
if (!$message) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter a message.'; 

//if the errors array is empty, send the mail
if (!$errors) {

    //recipient
    $to = 'Your Name <ur@mail.com>';    
    //sender
    $from = $name . ' <' . $email . '>';
    
    //subject and the html message
    $subject = 'Comment from ' . $name;    
    $message = '
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head></head>
    <body>
    <table>
        <tr><td>Name</td><td>' . $name . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Email</td><td>' . $email . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Phone</td><td>' . $phone . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Website</td><td>' . $website . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Comment</td><td>' . nl2br($message) . '</td></tr>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>';

    //send the mail
    $result = sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from);
    
    //if POST was used, display the message straight away
    if ($_POST) {
        if ($result) echo 'Thank you! We have received your message.';
        else echo 'Sorry, unexpected error. Please try again later';
        
    //else if GET was used, return the boolean value so that 
    //ajax script can react accordingly
    //1 means success, 0 means failed
    } else {
        echo $result;    
    }

//if the errors array has values
} else {
    //display the errors message
    for ($i=0; $i<count($errors); $i++) echo $errors[$i] . '<br/>';
    echo '<a href="form.php">Back</a>';
    exit;
}


//Simple mail function with HTML header
function sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from) {
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";
    
    $result = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
    
    if ($result) return 1;
    else return 0;
}

?>
3

When you place things like $_POST['cf_name'] in your PHP, it assumes there’s a corresponding name="cf_name" attribute on one of your form elements. Without that, PHP can’t grab the value that the user has entered into the form field.

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can u please explain me in detail

5

Each of your inputs needs a name value. Here is a simplified version of what you need:

<input type="text" name="cf_name">
<input type="text" name="cf_email">
<textarea value="Message" name="cf_message">Message..</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message">