Can't send PHP mail! Form mail

Question

    <form action="" enctype="text/plain" method="post">
    <textarea name="link" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; width: 591px;" cols="1" rows="1" placeholder="Link"></textarea>

    <textarea name="username" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; width: 591px;" cols="1" rows="1" placeholder="Username"></textarea>

    <input type="submit" value="send" /></form>
<div style="color: red;">*Warning</div>
- Do not submit the request more than once if you do not want duplicate items.

<?php
$to      = 'admin@bdeas.com';
$subject = 'Market Purchase';
$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['username']);
$message2 = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'])
$headers = 'From: admin@bdeas.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: admin@bdeas.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $message2, $headers);
?>

I have this code here but I can't seem to get this code to send the mail. I have looked at the other posts but they don't help me as I need the form details to send the mail.

EDIT! Could you tell me if there is anything wrong in the code?

so.. none of the answers worked for you below? and you're using entire code in the same page. something's gonna throw undefined index notices. — Funk Forty Niner, Aug 05 '15 at 21:55

Madness · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-05T22:05:09.717

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You can't have 2 messages like that. You need to join all parts of your final message into a string. If you want to include them both, do this:

<?php
    $to      = 'admin@bdeas.com';
    $subject = 'Market Purchase';
    $message = $_POST['username'] . '<br />' . $_POST['name'];
    $headers = 'From: admin@bdeas.com' . "\r\n" .
        'Reply-To: admin@bdeas.com' . "\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

edited Aug 05 '15 at 22:05

answered Aug 05 '15 at 21:35

Madness

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so if put that script in instead of the other php script, it should work? – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 21:42
I agree with @Sherif though, you probably do not need `htmlspecialchars()`. – Madness Aug 05 '15 at 21:47
so I should just use _post? – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 21:52
I edited my answer to remove the instances of `htmlspecialchars()`. – Madness Aug 05 '15 at 22:05
This should work as is? – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 22:10
Yes, have you tried it? – Madness Aug 05 '15 at 22:10
Yes, I tried it but didn't work again. I am now thinking that it's a problem with the host I'm using. awardspace – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 22:12
They allow it, here is their suggested test. http://blog.awardspace.com/i-am-unable-to-use-php-mail-function-from-my-paid-hosting-account-why/ – Madness Aug 05 '15 at 22:14
firstly, awardspace only allows using mail if you have a registered domain and pointed to their nameservers; you can't use mail "as is" from using just a free sub-domain of theirs. 2nd, look at what doesn't belong in the form tags. @JiungSong I'm surprised nobody picked up on that. – Funk Forty Niner Aug 05 '15 at 22:20
what doesn't belong in the form? – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 22:25
Also, I bought 1 year of hosting from them so i'm allowed. – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 22:26
For starters you dont need `enctype`. Also just looked at the names on your `input` tags... They are not 'username' & 'name', they are 'link' & 'username'. – Madness Aug 05 '15 at 22:28
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yes, I know that and I have changed all of em. Removed enctype and changed username and name to link and username – Jiung Song Aug 05 '15 at 22:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 21:38

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try to change,

mail($to, $subject, $message, $message2, $headers);

to

mail($to, $subject, $message.' '.$message2, $headers);

answered Aug 05 '15 at 21:38

Chandu9999

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

If you look at the manual page for the mail() function, you'll see its prototype takes 5 arguments, but they don't match what you're specifying here in your call to mail().

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

It looks like you're trying to send two messages at the same time, possibly? So your $message2 argument is getting sent as the $headers argument that mail() is expecting and your actual headers is getting sent as $additional_parameters.

If you meant to send it all as one message body you can concatenate the two strings into one. Otherwise you can call mail() multiple times.

N.B.

It's probably worth noting here that htmlspecialchars() doesn't help you unless you explicitly sent a Content-type header of text/html along with your email. Otherwise you're just making the message harder to read since the client will likely interpret it as plain/text by default.

Can't send PHP mail! Form mail

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