i keep getting Undefined index: name and Undefined index: email - php

Question

this is my first form
<style>
.wrap-form{
width: 700px;
min-height: 20px;
background-color: lightblue;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
<div class="wrap-form">
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send"></form>
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</div>
And this is my form 2 where the data will send to
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
echo $name;
echo $email;
?>
How would I fix this?

Answer 1

That's how your form code should be, surrounding your submit button by <a href="..." is causing the form not to be submitted, at the place you're just telling the browser that when this button is clicked, take the user to the page advanced-form-search.php. What you should do is put the script name where the form should be submitted in the action of the form tag then just add a submit button. And don't forget to close your tags... you missed the </form>
<div><?php if(isset($_GET['err'])){ if($_GET['err']==1){ echo 'You didn\'t fill in your name'; } elseif($_GET['err']==2){ echo 'You didn\'t fill in a correct email address';}}?></div>
<div class="wrap-form">
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>
Here's the PHP code to send an email:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name']) && !empty(trim($_POST['name']))){
$name = $_POST["name"];
} else {
header("Location: page_where_the_form_is.php?err=1");
die()
}
if(isset($_POST['email']) && filter_var(trim($_POST['email']), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
$email = $_POST["email"];
}
else {
header("Location: page_where_the_form_is.php?err=2");
die()
}
$subject='Form Submitted On The Website';
$message="Name: {$name}\nEmail: {$email}";
mail($to_email, $subject, $message);
?>

Answer 2

You've wrapped your <input type="submit" name="submit"... button with an <a href=.... What this does is prevents your form from being submitted as a POST request, and instead gets linked to as a GET request.
git rid of the <a href..., and and change your action=advanced-form-send to action="advanced-form-send.php".

Answer 3

You can improve your php code:
<?php
if (isset($_POST["name"])) {
$name = $_POST["name"];
echo $name;
} else {
echo 'Eror: Attribute "name" is missing!';
}
if (isset($_POST["email"])) {
$email = $_POST["email"];
echo $email;
} else {
echo 'Eror: Attribute "email" is missing!';
}
?>
And your form should be changed:
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Answer 4

You need to wrap your variables. The other answers are about the form. This answer is about your handling of variables. PHP will throw a notice if you use a variable that haven't been set. By using isset() you can determine if the variable is set and then use it.
<?php
$name = isset($_POST["name"]) ? $_POST["name"] : '';
$email = isset($_POST["email"]) ? $_POST["email"] : '';
echo $name;
echo $email;
?>
Doing it this way ensures that you wont get a notice if one of your fields haven't been posted. If they have you will have the value in $name and $email. If not then the variables will be empty strings.

Answer 5

Try Like this,
<div class="wrap-form">
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>

Answer 6

The submit button should be in the two "form" markups. Also the link is unnecessary because the input "submit" will send the form with the data to the page you set in the attribute "action" of the form markup.
<div class="wrap-form">
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>

Answer 7

Youre missing an enctype ... you ALL forgot it. Shame above you!
<form method="post" action="advanced-form-send.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"></form>