PHP Email form not working properly - php

Question

I am very new at php but even so, this does not make any sense to me:
I have an HTML page containing the php form as follows:
...
<article id="content"><div class="ic">Here comes the contact form!</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<h2>Contact form</h2>
<form method="post" id="ContactForm" name="myemailform" action="sendemail.php">
<div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Nume:</span>
<div class="bg"><input type="text" class="input" name="myname"></div>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Adresa:</span>
<div class="bg"><input type="text" class="input" name="myadresa" ></div>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Email:</span>
<div class="bg"><input type="text" class="input" name="myemail" ></div>
</div>
<div class="textarea_box">
<span>Mesaj:</span>
<div class="bg"><textarea name="textarea" cols="1" rows="1" name="mymesaj"></textarea></div>
</div>
<a href="#" class="button1" name='submit' value="submit" onclick='javascript: document.myemailform.binset=2; document.myemailform.submit();'>Send message</a>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</article>
And the action sendemail.php is as follows:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "myreal_email#email.com";
$email_subject = "Message from contact form";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['myname']) ||
!isset($_POST['myadresa']) ||
!isset($_POST['myemail']) ||
!isset($_POST['mymesaj'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$first_name = $_POST['myname']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['myadresa']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['myemail']; // required
$comments = $_POST['mymesaj']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Adresa: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Mesaj efectiv: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>
Now, the problem is that I receive the email, the subject is ok, the sender email is ok, but the message is empty... no $email_message is received.
Why is this happening?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

Answer 1

the problem is with your
<textarea name="textarea" cols="1" rows="1" name="mymesaj"></textarea>
there are two names with the textarea check it.
<textarea cols="1" rows="1" name="mymesaj"></textarea>

Answer 2

if you are usinh HTML 5 or higher version...use 'required' in the input tags...which will automatically validate the input data is present or not...
like this:
<input type="text" class="input" name="myname" required>
and for email validation give the input type as email...not text
like this:
<input type="email" class="input" name="myemail" required >
Also try ajax,jquery for further form validations..