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I don't know where you got your PHP script from, but it's poorly written. The reason you don't get any results from the checkboxes is because the script fails to add them to the body of the email message, and submits them to the mail() function in the argument that should contain the headers. That also explains why <br> appears in the email, because the HTML header is in the wrong argument.
Remove the addslashes() from all the variable assignments. For example:
$name=addslashes($_POST['name']);
should be:
$name = $_POST['name'];
The code for getting checkbox results should look like this (inserting "isset"):
$rearExt = isset($_POST['rearExt'])?"Rear ground extension: Yes":"Rear ground extension: No";
Change the following line:
$msg.="\n$rearExt\n$wsideExt\n$twoStoreyRear\n$twoStoreySide\n$loft\n $newBuild\n$wflat\n$other";
to this:
$msg = "$rearExt<br>\r\n$wsideExt<br>\r\n$twoStoreyRear<br>\r\n
$twoStoreySide<br>\r\n$loft<br>\r\n$newBuild<br>\r\n$wflat<br>\r\n";
The headers should look like this:
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n
From: $name <" . $email . ">\r\n
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
Each line in the body of the message should be followed by a carriage return and newline character, not just a newline character. Also, because you're using double quotes, you don't need to keep opening and closing them. The variables can be enclosed within the quotes. The first few lines should look like this:
$body = "Name: $name<br>\r\n
Email: $email<br>\r\n
Contact No: $contact_number<br>\r\n
The final closing quotes come at the end of the $body declaration, which should include the values from your checkboxes like this:
Other: $other<br>\r\n
$msg
Message:<br>\r\n
$message";
The line that sends your email should look like this:
mail($toemail, $subject, $body, $headers);
There are other improvements that could be made to the script, but those I have listed should solve your problems.
If you're interested in learning how to use PHP correctly, you might like to take a look at my book, PHP Solutions, 2nd Edition. Among other things, it shows you how to create a much more user-friendly email form that checks for required fields, and preserves the user's input if any mistakes are detected.
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