Accessing any values other than the radio and checkbox values

The problem that I am having is that my values aren't coming through with my PHP code. I put the php file pathname in the action part of the form below as well as attach the validation Javascript code to the submit button. The only values that I have access to in my php are the checkbox and radio values.

**********HTML***********************************

    <div id="right-cont">

        <form name = "contact_Us" action="http://no开发者_运维技巧va.umuc.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ct386a28/eContact.php" method = "post"> 

            <div id="style2">
                <p>Please enter contact information below:</p>                                 
            </div>

            <div class="style7">
                <label>First Name: </label>
                &nbsp;<br /><input type="text" id="firstName" tabindex="1" 
                    style="width: 176px" />
            </div>  

            <div class="style7">
                <label>Middle Name: </label>
                &nbsp;<br /><input type="text" id ="middleName" tabindex="2" 
                    style="width: 176px" />
            </div>

            <div class="style7">
                <label>Last Name: </label>
                &nbsp;<br /><input type="text" id ="lastName" tabindex="3" 
                    style="width: 176px" />
            </div>

            <div class =" buttons">
             <input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" onclick = "return validate()"/><input type="reset" value="CLEAR"/> <br />                
            </div>     

        </form>

     </div> 

*****************PHP CODE********************

       <?= '<' . '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?' . '>' ?>

       <?php     
         $fName = $_POST["firstName"];
         $lName = $_POST["lastName"];
         $mName = $_POST["middleName"];
         $email = $_POST["email"];
         $phone = $_POST["phone_Num"];
         $comment = $_POST["comment"];
         $phone_Type = $_POST["phone"];
         $specialty_Type = $_POST["specType"];      
       ?>

       <div id="right-cont">       


            <div style="style8">
                <h2>The Below Information has been sent to Pierre Law, LLC:</h2>                                   
            </div>

            <div class="style7">
                <label>First Name: </label>
                <?php echo $fName; ?>
            </div>  

            <div class="style7">
                <label>Middle Name: </label>
                <?php echo $mName;?>
            </div>

            <div class="style7">
                <label>Last Name: </label>
                <?php echo $lName;?>
            </div>
        </div>        

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Your input tags are missing the name attribute. The request data is sent for in form of "NAME=VALUE". You have only put ids of elements. You can use same value of id attribute as name in your input elements and the values will be received in PHP code

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This is how it should look like :

<div class="style7">
   <label for="firstName">First Name: </label>
   <input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName" tabindex="1" />
</div> 

The width of input should come from .style7 input{} css rule and please , stop using <br /> and   for formating, thats what css is for.

P.S. the name of the css class should describe the content of the tag ( 'article' , 'important' , etc. ). And form is a list of fields.