Dropdown post to email form

ambria

Please excuse another dumb newbie question.

I have created a feedback form in all php that has two drop boxes in it. These are simple dropboxes with multiple items and don't call any info from the database. I want the items selected in the dropboxes to post to the email form I receive. Right now, everything entered in the feedback form is sent to me except the what the guest selects from the dropboxes.

Everything solution I've looked at seems to either require arrays or creating functions or adding a table to the database and calling it. I know there's got to be an easy way to get this info simply to show up in an email. Can someone give me idea of how to do this?

coppercoins

I think what you want should be do-able using an HTML form. Something like the following:

<form action="blah.php">
<select name="variableName">
<option value="green">green
<option value="red">red
<option value="yellow">yellow
</select>
</form>

Then in blah.php,

$body = "Color selected is ";
$body .= $variableName;

mail($to, $subject, $body);

If the selection made in the form was "yellow", this assigns the value "yellow" to the variable $variableName by naming that to the select tag. Wherever the action to the form is takes that name ($variableName) and its value. You can place it into a $body string to formulate the e-mail, and your output will show "Color selected is yellow"

Hope this helps.

paulnaj

This works. Save this as a php page and try it. See if the select box does something similar to your one.

<html>
<head>
<title>Test Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" name="test_form" method="get">
<select class="text" name="select_name" size="1">
<option value="select_value_0">select_text_0</option>
<option value="select_value_1">select_text_1</option>
<option value="select_value_2">select_text_2</option>
<option value="select_value_3">select_text_3</option>
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>
<?php
echo 'You selected: <b>'.$_GET['select_name'].'</b>';
?>
</body>
</html>