How to pass php variable FORM data to mail handler? - php

Question

I currently have a form built with HTML/PHP that has some variable data that I'm unable to pass to the mail handler. The inputs with the variable data are blank upon sending mail.
The HTML Form:
<form action="mail-handler.php" method="POST">
<label>First Name:</label>
<input name="T1" type="text" value="<?php print($_GET['firstname']); ?>" disabled="" />
/*Non variable data still needs to pass*/
<label>Phone*:</label>
<input name="phone" type="tel" required="" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
The PHP Mail Handler:
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$msgBody="First Name: $firstname\n
Phone: $phone\n";
... and so on.
The form works for every input except the one with the variable data $firstname
How can I get the variable form value for "first name" to pass to the email handler?

Answer 1

So while #Martin and #Adder were correct with the incorrectly assigned var value, even after changing the mail-handler, the data would still not pass through the email.
I found the culprit to actually be the bit of HTML used to keep someone from editing the stored information. I had set the form fields with the variable data to be disabled="". Apparently this was the final block that was preventing the data transfer.
These are the changes I made to the code using the comment advice and changing the disabled status of the input.
<form action="mail-handler.php" method="POST">
<label>First Name:</label>
<input name="nameFirst" type="text" value="<?php print($_GET['firstname']); ?>" readonly="" />
/*Non variable data still needs to pass*/
<label>Phone*:</label>
<input name="phone" type="tel" required="" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
PHP did not like the disabled status so readonly="" got the job done there. Then I changed the var names to better suit my needs:
$nameFirst = $_POST['nameFirst'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$msgBody="First Name: $nameFirst\n
Phone: $phone\n";
This worked very well. Don't use disabled="" on a form in which you want to pass variable data, it won't work. Use readonly="" instead.