Hi, sorry for ask this again, but i really can't solve it. It must be easy but i can't find the solution this is my code: //form.php <form id='form1' action="mail.php" method="POST" > name : </td><td><input id="myname" type="text"> <input type="submit" value="enviar"> </form> //and this is the mail.php $name = $_POST["myname"]; var_dump($name); and the result is: NULL i'm using php 5, i don'd know what is wrong and i have readed a lot of blogs and forums, there is a lot of people with this problem , but i have not found a solution. thanks for the help