My php Contact form isn't working properly - php

Question

The contact form will only send an email will the words name email and message. I have been going over it for a few hours but nothing seems to be working.
Here is the contact php file (email is edited)
<?php
$field_name = $_POST['cf_name'];
$field_email = $_POST['cf_email'];
$field_message = $_POST['cf_message'];
$mail_to = 'outlook.com';
$subject = 'Message about Tejano Fest '.$field_name;
$body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;
$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);
if ($mail_status) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');
window.location = 'index.html';
</script>
<?php
Here is the html segment it's related to:
<form method="post" name="contact" action="#contact">
<div class="left">
<label for="author">Name:</label>
<input name="author" type="text" class="input_field" id="author" maxlength="40" />
</div>
<div class="right">
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input name="email" type="text" class="input_field" id="email" maxlength="80" />
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<label for="text">Message:</label> <textarea id="text" name="text" rows="0" cols="0"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class="submit_btn float_l" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
</form>
Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

change it (there are the name of input):
$field_name = $_POST['author'];
$field_email = $_POST['email'];
$field_message = $_POST['text'];
Enjoy your code!

Answer 2

Use this... your POST array values does not matching with your form field names .
<form method="post" name="contact" action="#contact">
<div class="left">
<label for="author">Name:</label>
<input name="cf_name" type="text" class="input_field" id="author" maxlength="40" />
</div>
<div class="right">
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input name="cf_email" type="text" class="input_field" id="email" maxlength="80" />
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<label for="text">Message:</label> <textarea id="text" name="cf_message" rows="0" cols="0"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class="submit_btn float_l" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />

Answer 3

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$field_name = $_POST['author'];
$field_email = $_POST['email'];
$field_message = $_POST['text'];
$mail_to = 'test#outlook.com';
$subject = 'Message about Tejano Fest '.$field_name;
$body_message = 'From: '.$field_name."\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: '.$field_email."\n";
$body_message .= 'Message: '.$field_message;
$headers = 'From: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$field_email."\r\n";
$mail_status = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);
if ($mail_status) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Thank you for the message. We will contact you shortly.');
window.location = 'index.html';
</script>
<?php
} }?>

Answer 4

Some other option to consider(of course after changing the values of the POST arrays), you may want to try using PhpMailer-http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=examplebsendmail as maybe your hosting solution requires Smtp authourisation.