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I have a PHP post problem with a textarea. I've searched this site, and the suggested remedies involved pulling the textarea's ID, and making sure you are using htmlspecialchars. I'm doing both, and I still can't figure out why it won't post the contents of my textarea.

HTML

PHP

$realName = $name = $theMessage = $subject = $WHATmessage = "";

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

$realName = test_input($_POST["name"]);

$name = test_input($_POST["email"]);

$theMessage = test_input($_POST["theTextArea"]);

}

function test_input($data) {

$data = trim($data);

$data = stripslashes($data);

$data = htmlspecialchars($data);

return $data;

}

$subject = 'SUPERGROUP Inquiry - ' . $realName . ' - [' .date("F j, Y, g:i a").']';

$WHATmessage = $realName . ' is looking forward to hearing from us!'.PHP_EOL.'Their email is: '. $name .'!'.PHP_EOL.'They said: "'.$theMessage.'"';

mail('hello@sprgrp.com', $subject, $WHATmessage );