Php contact form coding issue - php

Question

I am having trouble with the contact form that I've created for my website. I am not a PHP expert but I thought a proper contact form would be more professional than a simple href mailto link.
I managed to get the email, it tells me the sender but there is no subject and is all just blank without text. Also I keep receiving 2 emails everyday from no sender.
This is what I done in PHP in the page named contact.php.
I hope you can help:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$form1_services = $_POST['form1_services'];
$msg = $_POST['msg'];
$formcontent="From: $name \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "dandrea.alessandro81#gmail.com";
$subject = "Customer Inquiry";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You! Keep in touch soon!" . " -" . "<a href='index.html' style='text-decoration:none;font-family: 'gooddogregular';color:#009999;'> Return Home</a>";
?>
And this is the actual form in HTML:
<form action="contact.php" method="post">
<fieldset>
<legend></legend>
<div class="controlgroup">
<label for="form1_name">Name *</label>
<input type="text" placeholder="Enter your full name*" name="name" value>
</div>
<div class="controlgroup">
<label for="form1_email">Email *</label>
<input type="text" placeholder="Enter a valid email address*" name="email" value>
</div>
<div class="controlgroup">
<label for="form1_services">Services Required</label>
<select id="form1_services" name="services">
<option value="Website Design"> Website Design (from scratch) </option>
<option value="Resposive Design"> Responsive Design </option>
<option value="Customize a Site"> Customize a Site </option>
<option value="Quotation"> Quotation </option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="controlgroup">
<label>Project Info*</label>
<textarea placeholder="Ciao Alessandro, I am contacting you because...*" id="msg" name="msg" required aria-required="true"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" name="submit_btn" id="send" value="Hit me up!" class="wow rubberBand animated" data-wow-delay="2s">
</fieldset>
</form>
Thanks a lot in advance.
Alessandro

Answer 1

Taking a look at your PHP, you're collecting a number of fields, and then not actually using them. Try this:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$form1_services = $_POST['services'];
$msg = $_POST['msg'];
$message = 'From: ' . $name . ' <' . $email . '>' . "\n";
$message .= 'Service: ' . $form1_services . "\n";
$message .= 'Message: ' . "\n";
$message .= $msg;
$recipient = "dandrea.alessandro81#gmail.com";
$subject = "Customer Inquiry";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You! Keep in touch soon!" . " -" . "<a href='index.html' style='text-decoration:none;font-family: 'gooddogregular';color:#009999;'> Return Home</a>";
Keep in mind that at this point, you're not actually validating any of this information, so you can't be sure that the email address or the name is actually valid at all, but this should at least show you what is getting posted.

Answer 2

Try adding some headers:
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
$mailheader .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";