PHP not mailing any form data - php

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[Edit - added a complete form snippet] In my html - I have a single checkbox - which looks like this:
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<form class="contact-form row" id="feedbacks" method="POST" action="feedback.php">
<div class="col-xs-10 col-xs-offset-1">
<fieldset class="form-group">
<label for="full_name"></label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your name and surname" name="full_name" id="full_name">
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="">
<label for="feedback_email"></label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Email address" name="feedback_email" id="feedback_email">
</fieldset>
<div class="checkbox">
<label class="c-input c-checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" name="subbed" id="subbed">
<span class="c-indicator"></span>
<span class="text-muted m-l-1">subscribe to <abbr class="msa"></abbr> notifcation service.</span>
</label>
</div>
<fieldset>
<label for="message"></label>
<textarea class="form-control" rows="9" placeholder="Your message here.." name="message" id="message"></textarea>
</fieldset>
<div class="row m-t-1">
<fieldset class="col-xs-4 col-xs-offset-4">
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-block btn-lg" name="submit" type="submit" id="send_feedback">Send <i class="ion-android-arrow-forward"></i>
</button>
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>
</form>
<input type="checkbox" name="subscribed" id="subscribed" value="sub_me">
In my PHP, I've created a variable $subscribe which links to the subscribed checkbox.
The PHP is supposed to send an email of "I would not like to recieve news emails" when the checkbox is left alone. To achieve this I have opted to use the following ternary inside the PHP form validation code:
[Edit - Supplying all the PHP]
<?php
$value = '';
$error = "";
$error_message = "";
$info = "";
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST"){
$subscribe = 'Would ' . (isset($_POST['subbed']) && $_POST['subscribed'] == 'sub_me' ? 'like to ' : 'not like to ') . 'receive news emails.';
$admin_email = "myemail_address#gmail.com";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <noreply#domain.ac.za>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $feedback_email . "\r\n";
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$full_name = $_POST['full_name'];
$feedback_email = $_POST['feedback_email'];
$feedback = $_POST['message'];
$rep_message = "some thank you message to " . $full_name;
$message = 'another message which references ' . $subscribe;
$reply = 'some message consisting of ' . $full_name;
mail($admin_email,"Feedback",$message,$headers,"-fforwardguy#gmail.com");
mail($feedback_email,"Feedback",$reply,$headers);
}
?>
[Edit] The Problem is that the form is only acknowledged as having been sent, but no data is received along with it.
[After edit extra info - Could the following things be affecting the form submission?
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There are 2 forms on the page in question.
Both forms are submitted via AJAX.
The first form functions as expected.
Two mail functions are being used in this single PHP file (handling only one form).
After taking taking a closer look - I have found that the email which gets sent contains none of the text entered into the form.
(The AJAX function works and the success functions are run.)

Answer 1

Try this:
$subscribe = 'Would ' . (isset($_POST['subscribed']) && $_POST['subscribed'] == 'sub_me' ? 'like to ' : 'not like to ') . 'receive news emails.';
Here I am checking if the $_POST variable is actually set and then we are doing a loose comparison check to see if sub_me is the submitted value.
You could also try leaving the value attribute blank on the form element, then just check if $_POST['subscribed'] is actually set by just using isset($_POST['subscribed']). If the checkbox is NOT checked, isset($_POST['subscribed']) will return false.

Answer 2

Ok - so after I noticed what the actual problem was - I found out that My AJAX function was collecting data from the wrong form.