mailform with 'multiple select box"

Anon

Buenas,

I face the following challange:

I made a HTML emailform within the form a select box where you can select multiple options (it looks like this:
<select name="tours" size="8" multiple>
with approx. 15 options which you can select)

The formactions calls a .php file where I define the variables, bla,bla,bla and 1 of these variable is $tours.

The problem is that when I receive the (output)form by mail, only one of the options (of the variable $$tours) is displayed.

Off course I want all the options that are selected to appear in the outputform.

Who can help me?

thanx

Jappie

rrijnders

I think your problem has nothing to do with the email. If you want multiple selects to come back from a form, you must name the form field with an array:

<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="tour[]" VALUE="001">Package Deal #1<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="tour[]" VALUE="002">Package Deal #2<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="tour[]" VALUE="003">Package Deal #3<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="tour[]" VALUE="004">Package Deal #4<BR>

That way when your form is processed, you can walk through the array to get all of the selected values.

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US

jscnet

Do the following:

The "tours[]" turns your var into an array, and all selected options will be in this array.

To extract the array, do the following:

$cnt = count($tours);
for($x=0; $x<$cnt; $x++)
{
print($tours[$x] . "<br>\n");
}

Or, whatever variation theresuch...

Bonus
You can also IMPLODE the array into a single string, and then later, EXPLODE it back into an array:

$tours = array("US","Mexico","Moon");
$myStr = implode($tours,",");
print($myStr);

OUTPUT --> US,Mexico,Moon

$tours = array("US","Mexico","Moon");
$myArray = explode(",", $tours);
$cnt = count(myArray);
for($x=0; $x<$cnt; $x++)
{
print($myArray[$x] . "<br>\n");
}

OUTPUT -->
US
Mexico
Moon

Jason

jscnet

oopps -- slight typo in the EXPLODE example... it was late.

$tours = "US,Mexico,Moon"; <-- fixed
$myArray = explode(",", $tours);
$cnt = count(myArray);
for($x=0; $x<$cnt; $x++)
{
print($myArray[$x] . "<br>\n");
}

OUTPUT -->
US
Mexico
Moon