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i have tried make simple php contact form, turned out needed use smtp , phpmailer because it's hosted on windows server. have set contact form using example document on phpmailer website. having trouble pulling data form. email send in body shows as:

> name: $name >  > email: $email >  > message: $comment 

i know there lots of questions on here stackoverflow, can't seem figure out.

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php

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<?php require 'phpmailer/phpmailerautoload.php';  $name = $_request['name']; $email = $_request['email']; $comment = $_request['comment'];  $mail = new phpmailer;  $mail->smtpdebug = 2;                               // enable verbose debug output  $mail->issmtp();                                      // set mailer use smtp $mail->host = 'mail.example.co.uk';  // specify main , backup smtp servers $mail->smtpauth = false;                               // enable smtp authentication $mail->username = 'test@example.co.uk';                 // smtp username $mail->password = 'password';                           // smtp password $mail->smtpsecure = 'tls';                            // enable tls encryption, `ssl` accepted $mail->port = 25;                                    // tcp port connect  $mail->from = 'test@example.co.uk'; $mail->fromname = 'mailer'; $mail->addaddress('test@example.co.uk', 'bob');     // add recipient //$mail->addaddress('ellen@example.com');               // name optional //$mail->addreplyto('info@example.com', 'information'); //$mail->addcc('cc@example.com'); //$mail->addbcc('bcc@example.com');  //$mail->addattachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         // add attachments //$mail->addattachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // optional name $mail->ishtml(true);                                  // set email format html    $mail->subject = 'here subject'; $mail->body    = '<p><strong>name:</strong> $name</p> <p><strong>email:</strong> $email</p> <p><strong>message:</strong> $comment</p>'; $mail->altbody = 'this body in plain text non-html mail clients';      if(!$mail->send()) {     echo 'message not sent.';     echo 'mailer error: ' . $mail->errorinfo; } else {     echo 'message has been sent'; } ?> 

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html

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<form role="form" method="post" action="mail.php">          <p><label for="name">name</label></p>         <p><input type="text"  id="name" name="name" placeholder="first &amp; last name" value=""></p>          <p><label for="subject" >subject</label></p>         <p><input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" placeholder="subject" value=""></p>           <p><label for="email" >email</label></p>         <p><input type="email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="example@domain.com" value=""></p>           <p><label for="comment">message</label></p>         <p><textarea rows="4" id="comment" name="comment"></textarea></p>           <p><input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="send"></p>     </form> 

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your code $mail->body is:

$mail->body    = '<p><strong>name:</strong> $name</p> <p><strong>email:</strong> $email</p> <p><strong>message:</strong> $comment</p>'; $mail->altbody = 'this body in plain text non-html mail clients'; 

just replace below code :

$mail->body    = '<p><strong>name: </strong>'.$name.'</p> <p><strong>email: </strong>'.$email.'</p> <p><strong>message: </strong>'.$comment.'</p>'; $mail->altbody = ' body in plain text non-html mail clients';