Contact form Not Working Keeps Giving Me Array - php

Question

So I have this contact script which works great in firefox but whenever anyone tries it in ie 7 or 8 the plan always returns array and for the life of me I cant figure out what I did wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
<?php
if(!$_POST) exit;
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$cname = $_POST['cname'];
$address1 = $_POST['address'];
$address2 = $_POST['address2'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$state = $_POST['state'];
$zip = $_POST['zip'];
$plan = $_POST['plan'];
$verify = $_POST['verify'];
if(trim($name) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! You must enter your name.</div>';
exit();
} else if(trim($email) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter a valid email address.</div>';
exit();
} else if(trim($phone) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter a valid phone number.</div>';
exit();
} else if(!is_numeric($phone)) {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Phone number can only contain digits.</div>';
exit();
} else if(!isEmail($email)) {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! You have enter an invalid e-mail address, try again.</div>';
exit();
}
if(trim($cname) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter your Company Name.</div>';
exit();
}
if(trim($address1) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter your Address.</div>';
exit();
}
if(trim($city) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter your city.</div>';
exit();
}
if(trim($state) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter your state.</div>';
exit();
}
if(trim($zip) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter your zip code.</div>';
exit();
}
else if(trim($verify) == '') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! Please enter the verification number.</div>';
exit();
} else if(trim($verify) != '4') {
echo '<div class="error_message">Attention! The verification number you entered is incorrect.</div>';
exit();
}
if($error == '') {
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
$comments = stripslashes($comments);
}
// Configuration option.
// Enter the email address that you want to emails to be sent to.
// Example $address = "joe.doe#yourdomain.com";
$address = "email#email.com";
// Configuration option.
// i.e. The standard subject will appear as, "You've been contacted by John Doe."
// Example, $e_subject = '$name . ' has contacted you via Your Website.';
$e_subject = 'Veterans Career Fair: You\'ve been contacted by ' . $name . '.';
// Configuration option.
// You can change this if you feel that you need to.
// Developers, you may wish to add more fields to the form, in which case you must be sure to add them here.
$e_body = "You have been contacted by $name from $cname, they wish to sign up for the $plan Plan. Their additional information is as follows:\r\n\n";
$e_reply = "Contact $name via email, $email or via phone $phone. \r\n\n";
$e_mail = "Address of $name is: $address1 $address2, $city, $state $zip";
$msg = $e_body . $e_reply . $e_mail;
if(mail($address, $e_subject, $msg, "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nReturn-Path: $email\r\n")) {
// Email has sent successfully, echo a success page.
echo "<fieldset>";
echo "<div id='success_page'>";
echo "<h1>Email Sent Successfully.</h1>";
echo "<p>Thank you <strong>$name</strong>, your message has been submitted to us.</p>";
echo "<p>You should hear from us in 48 hours</p>";
echo "</div>";
echo "</fieldset>";
} else {
echo 'ERROR!';
}
}
function isEmail($email) { // Email address verification, do not edit.
return(preg_match("/^[-_.[:alnum:]]+#((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$/i",$email));
}
?>
The Html
<form method="post" action="bin/sendme.php" name="contactform" id="contactform">
<label>Full Name</label>
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Email</label>
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Phone</label>
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Company Name</label>
<input name="cname" type="text" id="cname" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Address 1</label>
<input name="address" type="text" id="address" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Address 2</label>
<input name="address2" type="text" id="address2" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>City</label>
<input name="city" type="text" id="city" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>State</label>
<input name="state" type="text" id="state" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Zip Code</label>
<input name="zip" type="text" id="zip" size="30" value="" /><br />
<label>Plan</label>
<select name="plan" type="text" id="plan">
<option value="Platinum">Platinum Sponsorship</option>
<option value="Gold">Gold Sponsorship</option>
<option value="Silver">Silver Sponsorship</option>
<option value="Survey">Survey Sponsorship</option>
<option value="Marquee">Marquee Sponsorship</option>
</select>
<label>3 + 1 =</label>
<input name="verify" type="text" id="verify" size="4" value="" style="width: 30px;" /><br /><br />
<input type="submit" class="submit" id="submit" value="REGISTER NOW" />
</form>
The Jquery
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
$('#contactform').submit(function(){
var action = $(this).attr('action');
$("#message").slideUp(750,function() {
$('#message').hide();
$('#submit')
.after('<img src="assets/ajax-loader.gif" class="loader" />')
.attr('disabled','disabled');
$.post(action, {
name: $('#name').val(),
email: $('#email').val(),
phone: $('#phone').val(),
cname: $('#cname').val(),
address: $('#address').val(),
city: $('#city').val(),
state: $('#state').val(),
zip: $('#zip').val(),
plan: $('#plan').val(),
verify: $('#verify').val()
},
function(data){
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = data;
$('#message').slideDown('slow');
$('#contactform img.loader').fadeOut('slow',function(){$(this).remove()});
$('#contactform #submit').attr('disabled','');
if(data.match('success') != null) $('#contactform').slideUp('slow');
}
);
});
return false;
});

Answer 1

<select name="plan" type="text" id="plan">
should be
<select name="plan" id="plan">

Answer 2

The html select element does not have an attribute type so perhaps that's confusing IE