Email Form Questionare?

biscutty

Hi I am setting up a form which is really a large questionare with lots of check boxes and options..
I want the prosessing script to pass all the information to an email adress, I know this can be done with a simple email script, but is there a way of getting all the variables to display in the mail, ie without hardwiring the variables into the script, but rather the script lists all variables and thier values, that way when the questions are changed the script still remains the same?

make sense?

thanks

biscutty

leatherback

Hi,

Yes you can.

Check the manual for each()

example from manual:

1
2 echo "Values submitted via POST method: ";
3 reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
4 while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
5 echo "$key => $val ";
6 }
7

Hope this get's you started.

laserlight

would be easier to use foreach() and to use $_POST since $HTTP_POST_VARS is deprecated.

that would be:

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    echo $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>';
}

biscutty

k, so that posts the values to the script, how am I then able to send those to an email?

thanks

leatherback

Use the mail() function.

First, you get all the variables, whch you copy into a new var: $mailbody

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$mailbody .= " $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>' ";

Then you mail the form:

mail($ToEmail, $subject, $mailbody, "from: name <email@domain.ext>");

biscutty

great, got that working, the seems to work fine when the results are posted to a web page but the email format does not have line returns...

is there any way of adding text formatting to the results, or display them in a table?

thanks for all the helps!

laserlight

Well, you could add newlines with "\n"

biscutty

im posting my code below, if anyone could help me with format of the results to the email?

<?
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    echo $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>';
	$mailbody .= " $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>' ";

}

mail("monies@btinternet.com","dumbass",$mailbody,"from: name <comp@domain.ext>");

?>


<html>
<head>
<title>Survey Sent</title>
</head>
<body>

<P>Survey Sent</P>

</body>
</html>

suntra

Try this :

<?
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    echo $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>';
    $mailbody .= " $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br>' ";

}

mail("monies@btinternet.com","dumbass",$mailbody,"from: name <comp@domain.ext>\nContent-Type: text/html\n");

?>

I find the syntax of this strange...

" $key . ' => ' . $value . ' ' ";
It would give something like
name . ' => ' . Suntra . ' '

It think it should simply be

" $key => $value ";

Also, put a new line after the ...

" $key => $value \n";

Does it help ?

biscutty

I have my script working fine now...


foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    echo '<table width="687" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" bordercolor="#EAEAEA" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">
  <tr bordercolor="#999999" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <td width="182"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">' . $key .'</font></td>
    <td width="475"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> '. $value .'</strong></font></td>
  </tr>
</table>';

but there are a few variables been passed from the previous page that I dont want the script to list? is there a way of doing this?

thanks again!

psychoadept

I've been trying to do exactly what you're talking about, so this discussion was really helpful to me.

Now I have the same question: is there an easy way to get rid of the Submit=Submit line that is generated by this code? It is irrelevant to the e-mail recipient. I also have a hidden field in my form which contains what I want the subject of the e-mail to be. It doesn't need to be in the body of the e-mail as well. (The reason I'm using a hidden field instead specifying the subject as part of the mail () function is that I am using the same code to process many different forms.)

Also, to account for line breaks in textareas I'm using the nl2br () function, and I'm having a strange problem with it.

This code:

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$value = nl2br ($value);
echo " $key = $value ";
$info .= " $key = $value "; }

is outputting the information typed into the fields twice, once without and once with, as in:

Content=blah blah blahblah
blah
blah

when what I typed in was

blah
blah
blah

Thanks for any help.

Campbell