PHP Contact Form Not Sending All Data - php

Question

I took the code below from a website but it only seems to send the Message and not the Name or Email. Can anyone tell me why?
<?php $action=$_REQUEST['action'];
if ($action=="") { ?>
<form action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="submit">
Your name:<br>
<input name="name" type="text" value="" size="30"/><br>
Your email:<br>
<input name="email" type="text" value="" size="30"/><br>
Your message:<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="7" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send email"/>
</form>
<?php
}
else {
$message=$name=$_REQUEST['name'];
$email=$_REQUEST['email'];
$message=$_REQUEST['message'];
if (($name=="")||($email=="")||($message==""))
{
echo "All fields are required, please fill the form again.";
}
else{
$from="From: dG<my#email.com>\r\nReturn-path: $email";
$subject="Message sent using your contact form";
mail("my#email.com", $subject, $message, $from);
echo "Email sent!";
}
}
?>
I thought that I could change
mail("my#email.com", $subject, $message, $from);
to be more like
mail("my#email.com", $subject, $name, $email, $message, $from);
but that didn't work.
As you can see, I don't know much about PHP, so please keep it as simple as you can.
Thanks.

Answer 1

The mail() function accepts these arguments:
to, subject, message, headers, parameters
So, to include the contents of the $name and $email variables in the message, you'll probably want to add them to the message variable. Something like:
$message = $name . $email . $message;
Then, when you send the e-mail with:
mail("my#email.com", $subject, $message, $from);
the $message will include the $name and $email contents.
Once you get that working, you'll probably want to add some space between the name, email and message.
Here is what the complete else block could look like:
else{
$from="From: dG<my#email.com>\r\nReturn-path: $email";
$subject="Message sent using your contact form";
$message = $name . $email . $message;
mail("my#email.com", $subject, $message, $from);
echo "Email sent!";
}
Here is a link to the full documentation on the mail() function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php