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Jesse Barnes
Jesse Barnes

Reputation: 11

inserting HTML POST form field data into PHPmailer email body

I have tried every hint I have found across the web and here but what I cannot achieve is for the sent email to contain the form data in the html formatted message. The mailing function is working and I get the email properly.

The form is basically:

<form method="post" action="test.php" name="Work Record" autocomplete="off">

<input type="text" name="first_name" id="staff_name2" placeholder="First" required />

<input type="text" name="last_name" id="staff_name" placeholder="Last" required />

<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" class="head-l" id="checkbox" onChange="this.form.submit()">

And using the latest phpmailer from google the action script is as follows. I have the emailing function working through gmail, I am just not sure what to put where to pull the data from the form and put it into the email body. The code that is pasted in the body now is that we used to use before switching to phpmailer. Thank you!

<?php
require '/home/newnplhftp/nplh.us/smtp/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->IsSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';                            // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxxxxx';                           // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';                            // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->Port = 465;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

$mail->From = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$mail->FromName = 'NPLH';
$mail->AddAddress('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');               // Name is optional

$mail->AddCC('');
$mail->AddBCC('');

$mail->WordWrap = 50;                                 // Set word wrap to 50 characters

$mail->IsHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

$mail->Body = '
<html>
<h2><b>$first_name $last_name, $license_type</b></h2>
</html>';

$mail->AltBody = '';

if(!$mail->Send()) {
   echo 'Message could not be sent.';
   echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   exit;
}

echo 'Thank you, your message has been sent!';

?>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7437

Answers (2)

VIDesignz
VIDesignz

Reputation: 4783

The variables you are trying to send need to be captured from the the form first. This would happen on test.php since this is where you are posting the values to.

So you would do this

$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$license_type = $_POST['license_type'];

Then you can use them inside the mail body.

$mail->Body = "<html><h2><b>$first_name $last_name, $license_type</b></h2></html>";

Though I would highly suggest validating that data in some way first.

Upvotes: 1

maverabil
maverabil

Reputation: 103

Please set;

$mail->Body = '
<html>
<h2><b>$first_name $last_name, $license_type</b></h2>
</html>';

to

$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$license_type = $_POST['license_type'];

    $mail->Body = "
    <html>
    <h2><b>".$first_name." ".$last_name.", ".$license_type."</b></h2>
    </html>";

Upvotes: 2

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