PHP Mailer - Additional Fields - php

Question

I have searched and researched high and low and I am still unable to find an answer.
I am using PHP Mailer that came with a theme we purchased (version 5.2.1). I am trying to figure out how to capture the phone number and send it along with the other data in the email that is sent.
The Form:
<form method="post" action="#" id="contactForm">
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="name" type="text" placeholder="Name (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="email" type="text" placeholder="Email (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="phone" name="phone" type="text" placeholder="Phone (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="subject" type="text" placeholder="Subject (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="children-3-7" type="text" placeholder="Number of Children (Age 3 - 7) (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="children-7-14" type="text" placeholder="Number of Children (Age 7 - 14) (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<input class="input-xlarge required" id="adults" type="text" placeholder="Number of Adults (Required)" />
</div>
<div class="input-prepend" style="margin-left:0px">
<textarea name="message-input" id="message" class="span12 required" cols="5" rows="5" placeholder="Message (Required)" style="margin-left:0px"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="clearfix" style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0px">
<span>Reset Form</span>
<span>Send Message</span>
<!-- Processing data trick -->
<div id="loadingForm">
<img src="images/normal/ajax-small.gif" alt="ajax-small" />
</div>
<!-- Processing data trick -->
</div>
<br />
<div class="clearfix">
<!-- contact notice -->
<div class="alert alert-block fade" id="contact-notice">
<span><strong>Warning!</strong> All fields above are required to send the message properly.</span>
</div>
<!-- contact notice -->
</div>
</form>
The PHP
<?php
require_once("class.phpmailer.php");
send();
function send(){
$mailer = new PHPMailer();
$mailer->IsSMTP();
$mailer->Host = 'host.com';
$mailer->SMTPAuth = true;
$mailer->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mailer->Port = 587;
$mailer->CharSet="utf-8";
$mailer->IsHTML(true);
$mailer->Username = 'mail-bot#mail.com';
$mailer->Password = 'PASSWORD';
$mailer->FromName = $_POST['name'];
$mailer->From = $_POST['email'];
$mailer->AddAddress('ADDRESS','NB=AME');
$mailer->Subject = $_POST['subject'];
$mailer->MsgHTML = $_POST['message'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
/**$mailer->Age1 = $_POST['children-3-7'];
//$mailer->Age2 = $_POST['children-7-14'];
//$mailer->Age3 = $_POST['adults'];**/
$mailer->Body = "From : ".$_POST['name']."<br /> E-mail : ".$_POST['email']."<br /> Subject : ".$_POST['subject']."<br />Message : ".$_POST['message']."<br />Phone : $phone";
if(!$mailer->Send()){
echo "error^Message could not be sent.<br />";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mailer->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
else{
echo "ok^Message sent successfully!";
}
}
?>
As you can see I am attempting to use
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
to extract the phone number and then adding it to the message body by using
$mailer->Body = "From : ".$_POST['name']."<br /> E-mail : ".$_POST['email']."<br /> Subject : ".$_POST['subject']."<br />Message : ".$_POST['message']."<br />Phone : $phone";
To inject the phone number
I have also tried injecting in the following way
$mailer->Body = "From : ".$_POST['name']."<br /> E-mail : ".$_POST['email']."<br /> Subject : ".$_POST['subject']."<br />Message : ".$_POST['message']."<br />Phone: ".$_POST['phone'];
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It appears as if there was a secondary validation sitting in our main .js file that was validating empty fields before posting them via ajax. Phone number needed to be added in there before it posted it and I can now successfully capture the data.
Thanks for your help!