Contact form - help?

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i’m having some trouble to some reason getting my form to work that i got off this site. i don’t know what the problem is. it’s probably so small that i’m overlooking it. i’m really, really new to php. but here’s the code:

its filename is: contact.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“XHTML namespace”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1” />
<title>Elizabeth Nichols - Portfolio</title>
<link href=“css.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” />
<style type=“text/css”>
#contact {
position:absolute;
left:358px;
top:655px;
font-size: 10px;
width: 373px;
height: 297px;
}
.style2 {font-size: 14px}
</style>
</head>

<body id=“body”>

<div id=“container”>
<div id=“login”>
Email Address:<br />
<input name=“login” type=“text” size=“18” maxlength=“30” />
<br />
Password:<br />
<input name=“password” type=“password” size=“18” maxlength=“30” />
<br />
<p align=“center”><a href=“newmember.php”><img src=“images/button_new.png” border=“0” /></a>
     
<img src=“images/button_login.png” /></p>
</div>

<div id=“header”><img src=“images/navigation.png” border=“0” usemap=“#navigation” />
<map name=“navigation” id=“navigation”>
<area shape=“rect” coords=“38,21,107,47” href=“index.php” alt=“home” />
<area shape=“rect” coords=“124,23,293,48” href=“about.php” alt=“about” />
<area shape=“rect” coords=“313,20,383,46” href=“work.php” alt=“work” />
<area shape=“rect” coords=“404,21,472,47” href=“links.php” alt=“link” />
<area shape=“rect” coords=“495,21,578,46” href=“contact.php” alt=“contact” />
</map></div>

    &lt;div id="contact"&gt;

    &lt;span class="style2"&gt;Fill out the below form and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;form method="post" action="thankyou.php"&gt;
    &lt;table width="284" height="241" border="0"&gt;

<tr>
<td width=“278” height=“39”>

  &lt;span class="style2"&gt;Name:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;input name="name" type="text" size="20" maxlength="20" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;span class="style2"&gt;E-mail Address:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;input name="email" type="test" size="30" maxlength="40" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

</tr>
<tr>
<td height=“187”><span class=“style2”>Comments/Questions:</span><br />
<textarea name=“question” cols=“30” rows=“6”></textarea>
<br /><br />
<input name=“Reset” type=“reset” value=“Clear” />
<input name=“submit” type=“submit” value=“Submit” /></td>
</tr>
</table></form>

    &lt;br /&gt;


    
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div id="footer_container"&gt;
  &lt;div id="footer_left"&gt;&copy;2006-2007 Elizabeth Nichols. All Rights Reserved.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

and this is the php part. its filename is: thankyou.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<title>Sendemail Script</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
if(isset($_POST[‘submit’])) {

$to = “lillizzierae@aol.com”;
$subject = “Form Tutorial”;
$name_field = $_POST[‘name’];
$email_field = $_POST[‘email’];
$question = $_POST[‘message’];

$body = “From: $name_field
E-Mail: $email_field
Message:
$message”;

echo “Data has been submitted to $to!”;
mail($to, $subject, $body);

} else {

echo “blarg!”;

}
?>

</body>
</html>