phpmailer not sending variables - php

Question

I am trying to use phpmailer to send a user's input from an html form
Form is like this
<form action="senditpm.php" role="form">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name"><br>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email">>br>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="phone" name="phone">>br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button btn btn-default">
</form>
senditpm.php is like this
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email= $_POST['email'] ;
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'xxxxxxxxx';
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
$mail->Username = 'xxxxxxxx';
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxxxx';
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->setFrom('xxx#xxxxs.co.uk', 'xxxxx');
$mail->addAddress('xxx#xxx', 'xxx xxxx');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body="
Name: $name <br>
Email: $email <br>
Phone: $phone <br>";
;
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>
When I complete the form and click Submit, I receive an email like this
Name:
Email:
Phone:
As you can see, the php isn't sending the variables
Please could someone let me know where I am going wrong. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

<form> defaults to a GET method if a POST method is not implied and you are using POST arrays.
So change
<form action="senditpm.php" role="form">
to
<form action="senditpm.php" role="form" method="post">