Online PHP problem.

This is far from all "the relevant code". You'll really need to give someone with some PHP and web knowledge access to the web hosting system to be able to fix this.

It *may* be something simple like a newer version of PHP has been installed and needs some changes for the code to work as before but one still needs access to the hosting service to find out.

Therein is I think the issue.

Unless you have a FORM field like or <textarea> the data entered will not be passed as a POST variable to the PHP.

What you need to do is create an input variable of type <HIDDEN> and as well as populating the TD element with the leader name, populate that also,

So:

The booking.php script should now work as intended

It looks like that relies on the [evil] PHP register_globals, if you're using a hosted PHP, it wouldn't surprise me if they've turned it off, but does surprise me they didn't do so a decade ago ...

Actually I should have got some sleep!

TNP is right, what you need within your is rather than <td name='leader' blahblah>

Well no, the issue is that that is NOT an input field. Its preselected and filled in by by the hosts data Hence my suggestion to use a HIDDEN field, and inject the data into that.

And no, that code isn't using register globals.

$message = "Leader: " . $_POST['Leader'] . "\n"; is not use of them

$message = "Leader: " . $Leader. "\n"; would be, but really I don't think anyone still uses them.

The ability for malware to arbitrarily set any variable in PHP is too much even for the sloppiest hacker...

That's what I said, it needs to be an INPUT instead of a TD

That not what I said. It is *not* a field that the designer wants data to be inputted into.

It is simply a fixed text area whose contents want to be delivered via a POST variable to the backend program.

It is unfortunate that is not a field into which data can be input....even though it is called 'input'

I'm typically using the hidden field thus:

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Dear TNP, thank you very much for that, my website now works. I didn't add a separate HIDDEN input, just added a normal input between my TDs. The contents get displayed and used by PSP correctly.

I haven't managed to remove the borders to hide the fact that it's an input, but I don't mind if the user adds something to the displayed text.

I see that my PHP now only looks at input fields, but I don't understand why. It was different in the past.

I dont think it was. And its not PHP in charge, it is the browser..since that is what assembles the POST data to send to the php.

Have you recently upgraded from IE4?

I use Firefox but also had the same problem on Chrome. I used to have loads of fields between TDs filled via local storage (not input fields) and they all copied splendidly into my email, then suddenly the results were all blank.

That does not compute. Whatever happened is not what you think happened

Cheek!