Thanks for taking the time to look, guys. I'm creating a pretty basic AJAX contact form using jQuery. The email sends, but upon opening the email there is no POST data, so I just get the strings I defined in the PHP script. On my phone's email client, the content of the email literally says 'undefined'. I've tried adding different types of header data to no avail, and a number of variations on the PHP mail() function.
I am more than willing to adopt an easier solution for a simple AJAX form, so thanks in advance for any new approaches.
Here is the form:
<section id="left">
<label for="form_name">Name</label>
<input name="form_name" id="form_name" type="text" >
<label for="form_email">Email</label>
<input name="form_email" id="form_email" type="email" >
</section>
<section id="right">
<label for="form_msg">Message</label>
<textarea name="form_msg" id="form_msg"></textarea>
<input id="submit" class="button" name="submit" type="submit" value="Send">
</section>
</form>
The jQuery AJAX:
$(function() {
$("#contact .button").click(function() {
var name = $("#form_name").val();
var email = $("#form_email").val();
var text = $("#msg_text").val();
var dataString = 'name='+ name + '&email=' + email + '&text=' + text;
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "email.php",
data: dataString,
success: function(){
$('.success').fadeIn(1000);
}
});
return false;
});
});
The PHP script (external file 'email.php'):
<?php
if($_POST){
$name = $_POST['form_name'];
$email = $_POST['form_email'];
$message = $_POST['form_msg'];
//send email
mail("email@gmail.com", "This is an email from:" .$email, $message);
}
?>