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Simple form not working after upgrading to php5

I have this very simple contact form on one of my sites and after upgrading the servers to php5 they do not work anymore. I have attached the code. Thank you in advance.

<?php
  if ($REQUEST_METHOD == "POST") {
  
 
	$comments = ($comments);
	$from = ($email);
	$sendto = "user@sbcglobal.net";
	$subject = "Feed Back From You Website";
	$message = "$comments";
	
	mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $from); 
	header("Location: index.htm"); 	
	}
	
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Site Name</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
 
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id="header">
  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="200" height="68" align="center" bgcolor="#F68B1F"><img src="images/home_logo.gif" width="191" height="29"></td>
      <td width="7" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">&nbsp;</td>
      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="images/indications_logo.gif" alt="Indications" width="191" height="29"></td>
      <td align="right" valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="images/address.gif" alt="Address" width="200" height="68"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="nav"><a href="index.htm" target="_self" class="nav">Home</a> <a href="resume.htm" target="_self" class="nav">BIO</a> <a href="index.htm" target="_self" class="nav">Portfolio </a><a href="contact.php" target="_self" class="nav">Contact </a></div>
<div id="content">
  <form action="<?php echo("$script_name"); ?>" method="post">
    Your Name:<br>
  <input name="name" type="text" id="name" style="width:200px; height:20px; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA ">
  <br>
  <img src="images/spacer.gif" height="15	px"><br>
    Email:<br>
  <input name="email" type="text" id="email" style="width:200px; height:20px; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA ">
  <br>
  <img src="images/spacer.gif" height="15px"><br>
    Comments:<br>
  <textarea name="comments" id="comments" style="width:200px; height:150px; border-width:1px; overflow:auto; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA "></textarea>
  <br>
  <input name="image" type="image" src="images/reset.gif">
    <input name="image" type="image" style="margin-left:15px " src="images/submit.gif">
  
  </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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fosiul01

instead of $REQUEST_METHOD == "POST")
use this

if($_POST['submit'])

hope it will work

fosiul01

and also
what is in here

<form action="<?php echo("$script_name"); ?>" method="post">

in $script_name ??

fosiul01

and also , i dont know the bellow code will work or not .

<input name="image" type="image" src="images/reset.gif">
<input name="image" type="image" style="margin-left:15px " src="images/submit.gif">

i always use bellow code as a submit button

<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login!"></td>

wraithlord

ASKER

This did not fix it.

wraithlord

ASKER

This did not fix it.

fosiul01

Have you tryed all of them ??

and also

<form action="<?php echo("$script_name"); ?>" method="post">

what is in $script_name ?? ??

wraithlord

ASKER

yes, I tried them all and I changed <?php echo("$script_name"); ?>" method="post"> to contact.php" method="post"> so it just refreshes the page. <?php echo("$script_name"); ?> just refreshes the page

wraithlord

ASKER

this form worked fine on php4

fosiul01

wait i will sent you edited code 10 min

fosiul01

yes because you need to capture the data after doing post
wait i am sending you

fosiul01

Try this code

<?php
 
 
        $comments = $_POST["comments"];  /* you need to caputre comments by using $_POST[ ]  */
		
        $from = $_POST["email"];
        
		$sendto = "user@sbcglobal.net";
        $subject = "Feed Back From You Website";
        $message = "$comments";
        
        mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $from); 
        header("Location: index.htm");  
        
        
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Site Name</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
 
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id="header">
  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="200" height="68" align="center" bgcolor="#F68B1F"><img src="images/home_logo.gif" width="191" height="29"></td>
      <td width="7" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">&nbsp;</td>
      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="images/indications_logo.gif" alt="Indications" width="191" height="29"></td>
      <td align="right" valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="images/address.gif" alt="Address" width="200" height="68"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="nav"><a href="index.htm" target="_self" class="nav">Home</a> <a href="resume.htm" target="_self" class="nav">BIO</a> <a href="index.htm" target="_self" class="nav">Portfolio </a><a href="contact.php" target="_self" class="nav">Contact </a></div>
<div id="content">
  <form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
    Your Name:<br>
  <input name="name" type="text" id="name" style="width:200px; height:20px; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA ">
  <br>
  <img src="images/spacer.gif" height="15       px"><br>
    Email:<br>
  <input name="email" type="text" id="email" style="width:200px; height:20px; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA ">
  <br>
  <img src="images/spacer.gif" height="15px"><br>
    Comments:<br>
  <textarea name="comments" id="comments" style="width:200px; height:150px; border-width:1px; overflow:auto; border-style:solid; border-color:#575757; background-color:#D0D8DA "></textarea>
  <br>
 <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
  
  </form>
</div>
</body>
</htm

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wraithlord

ASKER

the code above just processes the form and sends the email. the problem it that it never lets me put in the information it just quickly sends me a blank email and the redirects

wraithlord

ASKER

shouldn't there be a "if post" in there

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wraithlord

ASKER

Great fast solution!!! Perfect!!!