Need some help with a HTML form PHP send email combo platter

Question

PHP has never been my strong suit so I need some assistance getting the contents of a form to send via email properly in PHP.

Here is the html form:

<form action="estimate.php" method="post" >
                <fieldset>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="name" value="FULL NAME*" onfocus="if (this.value=='FULL NAME*') this.value='';"/>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="phone" value="PHONE NUMBER*" onfocus="if (this.value=='PHONE NUMBER*') this.value='';"/>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="email" value="EMAIL*" onfocus="if (this.value=='EMAIL*') this.value='';"/>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="date" value="MOVE DATE*" onfocus="if (this.value=='MOVE DATE*') this.value='';"/>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="origin" value="ORIGINATING ADDRESS*" onfocus="if (this.value=='ORIGINATING ADDRESS*') this.value='';"/>
                <input type="text" name="destination" value="DESTINATION ADDRESS" onfocus="if (this.value=='DESTINATION ADDRESS') this.value='';"/>
                <select name="move-type">
                    <option value="" selected="selected">TYPE OF MOVE</option>
                    <option value="Private">Private</option>
                    <option value="Commercial">Commercial</option>
                </select>
                <input id="quoteSubmit" 
                    type="image" src="_images/btn_submit.png" alt="" 
                    onmouseover="javascript:this.src='_images/btn_submit-over.png'" 
                    onmouseout="javascript:this.src='_images/btn_submit.png'"/>
                </fieldset>
 </form>

Here is the PHP I have thus far:

<?php
$emailFromName = $_POST['name'];
$emailFromPhone = $_POST['phone'];
$emailFrom = $_POST['email'];
$emailDate = $_POST['date'];
$emailOrigin = $_POST['origin'];
$emailDestination = $_POST['destination'];
$emailType = $_POST['move-type'];

if (empty($emailFromName)) {
    echo 'Please enter your name.';
} elseif (!preg_match('/^([A-Z0-9\.\-_]+)@([A-Z0-9\.\-_]+)?([\.]{1})([A-Z]{2,6})$/i', $emailFrom) || empty($emailFrom)) {
    echo 'The email address entered is invalid.';
} elseif (empty($emailDate)) {
    echo 'You must enter a Move date.';
} elseif (empty($emailOrigin)) {
    echo 'You must enter a message.';
} elseif (empty($emailDestination)) {
    echo 'You must enter a message.';    
} else {

    $emailTo = "[email protected]";

    if (!empty($emailFrom)) {
        $emailHeaders = 'From: "' . $emailFromName . '" <' . $emailFrom . '>';
    } else {
        $emailHeaders = 'From: "The Boss" <[email protected]>';
    }

    /* Send Email */
    if (mail($emailTo, $emailSubject, $emailDate,   $emailHeaders)) {
        echo 'Thank you! Your message has been sent.';
    } else {
        echo 'There was an internal error while sending your email.<br>';
        echo 'Please try again later.';    
    }
}
?>

I am having trouble with the body of the message. I need to display all the values from the form:

From: Email: Phone: Move date: Origin: Destination: Move type:

but I am not exactly sure how to compile all those into the body and would appreciate some help.

thanks.

Answer 1

The third attribute to the mail function is for body of the email not date like you are specifying $emailDate, you should specify the email body there.

Answer 2

Right now you're sending the $emailDate as the body of the message.. You just need to build a variable with the data you want. i.e.

$emailBody = "Move date: " . $emailDate;

I think your header variable needs to have a \r\n at the end, too.