[Resolved] Dropdown Menu - Form Help!!!

Mr_Chew

Ok, I am in serious need of help with this mail form script I am trying to write. I have my form, contact.html, including 'Name:', 'E-Mail', 'Comment's'... I did the php script part for that correctly I believe- but I have a dropdown menu which I have no idea how to make work in the php script..

here's what the html part of it looks like...

<option selected>Select one-</option>
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>

but when I get to the php part of it I have no idea how to go about that - I tried doing something like this which I found on the web but I get an error saying it doesnt work ....

$DropMenu=<<<dropmenu
<select name="$D1" size="1">
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>
</select>
DropMenu;

if ($Selected) {
$DropMenu = preg_replace("|\"$Selected\">*|",
"\"$Selected\" SELECTED>",$DropMenu);
} # if ($Selected)
return $DropMenu;
<?

If someone could please help me out with how to do this correctly I would deeply appreciate it - thank you

Riddick

I’m not quite sure what you want to do, can you be more specific in what you need

lmayer4

You can pull the info out of a database like I've shown below:

mssql_connect('HQMSDB05');

// assuming db connection already exists - do query
$q = mssql_query('select distinct Facility from Yardcheck.dbo.vwTrailerStatus order by Facility');
if (mssql_num_rows($q) > 0):
print '<select name="Facility" size="1">';
for ($i=0; $cust = mssql_fetch_array($q); ++$i):
print '<option value='.urlencode($cust["Facility"]).'>'.$cust["Facility"].'</option>';
endfor;
print '</select>';
else:
// No results, display message.
endif;
?>

Or you can imbed html in PHP as well and just put the a drop down list lin.

Does that help a little?

Laura

Mr_Chew

OK- below is my form... How do I do the php coding for the dropdown menu is what I basically want to know- or maybe if someone could just type out what the whole php script would ook like with that form as it is not that long, so I can see if the way I'm approaching it is correct.

THANK YOU

-mr. chew

anm

I'm still not clear what you mean. Do you want all that in php tags? Or do you want the code to find out what the user selected? If you know the options you could just do:

if($whatever == "option1") {
//do it
}
elseif. . . 
. . .
. . .

and so on. If you want it on a PHP page, just do

<?php
//php code
?>
YOUR HTML GOES HERE
<?php
//rest of the php code
?>

But somehow I don't think that's what you want

Mr_Chew

OK- this is what I currently have for the php script for my form that doesn't work- I don't know how to do the coding part for the dropdown menu.. I think I have the other parts right..

<?
$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];

$toaddress = "JEG0333@comcast.net";

$subject = "Factored Designs";

mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress);

header( "Location: http://www.f-designs.net" );

if ($Selected) {
$DropMenu = preg_replace("|\"$Selected\">*|",
"\"$Selected\" SELECTED>",$DropMenu);
} # if ($Selected)
return $DropMenu;
</?

Any ideas/suggestions/help??

Thank you

mr. chew

trippleweb

One thing I notice is that you have a header then some code which means whatever is after the header will most likely get ignored.

I also your naming the select box with a variable, is this done purposely or did you accidently stick a $ there? Looking at the source code of your link, the name shows as D1 so I believe this might be an issue.
eg.

<select name="$D1" size="1">
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>
</select>

AND

This coding seems unnesessary:

if ($Selected) {
$DropMenu = preg_replace("|\"$Selected\">*|",
"\"$Selected\" SELECTED>",$DropMenu);
} # if ($Selected)
return $DropMenu;

because if it is done with normal html it should have the same results I think.

I am still confused what you are doing with the D1 variable as you already have a subject, and these appear to be subjects of emails. And your subject is already declared.

Mr_Chew

Ignore the D1 part- ignore any of the dropdown part of the script I know its probably incorrect.. I just want a client to be able to click an option in the dropdown menu and have it sent to me with the other results in the form (name email comments) but I have no idea how to do that

trippleweb

Try something like this

<select name=d1>
<option selected>Select one-</option>
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>
</select>
<textarea name=message></textarea>
<input type=submit value=submit>
</form>
</html>

<?php
//phpScript.php

$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$d1=$POST['d1'];
$comments=$POST['message'];
$comments2="$d1\n\r$comments";
$toaddress = "JEG0333@comcast.net";

$subject = "Factored Designs";

mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments2, $email);

header( "Location: http://www.f-designs.net" );
?>

Mr_Chew

I used what you gave me and put it into my code...it works to some extent... when I receive an e-mail after someone submits one from the site I only receive their email address and message- I don't receive which option the've selected from the dropdown menu or their name...

Kudose

<html>
<form action="phpScript.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="email">

<select name="d1">
<option selected>Select one...</option>
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>
</select>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</html>

<?php
//phpScript.php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$d1=$_POST['d1'];
$comments= $d1."\n\r".$_POST['message'];
$toaddress = "JEG0333@comcast.net";
$subject = "Factored Designs";
mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments, $email);
header("Location: http://www.f-designs.net");
unset($_POST['submit']);
}
?>

trippleweb

<select name="d1">
<option value="Nothing Selected">Select one...</option>
<option value="Question">Question</option>
<option value="Comment">Comment</option>
<option value="Affiliate">Affiliate</option>
<option value="Tutorial Request">Tutorial Request</option>
<option value="Join f-designs">Join f-designs</option>
</select>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</html>

<?php
//phpScript.php
if(isset($POST['submit'])){
$name=$POST['name'];

$email=$_POST['email'];
$email="$name<$email>";

$d1=$POST['d1'];
$comments= $d1."\n\r".$POST['message'];
$toaddress = "JEG0333@comcast.net";
$subject = "Factored Designs";
mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments, $email);
header("Location: http://www.f-designs.net");
unset($_POST['submit']);
}
?>

Mr_Chew

That script from the last post does not work - the post before that works fine though- the only problem I have is when I receive an email after someone submits a query, I don't see their name, only their e-mail address, dropdown option and comment.

Also is it possible that when I receive form results in the email, it can show:
Name: john doe
E-mail: john@doe.com
and so on instead of just having it listed
(johndoe)
(john@doe.com)

Thanks!!

Riddick

Try this in your contactus.php page.

<?php
$display = '
<body bgcolor="#BFBFBF">
<p align="center"> </p>
<table width="200" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td><div align="center" class="style2">Name:</div></td>
<td>'.$name.'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center" class="style2">Email:</div></td>
<td>'.$email.'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><span class="style3">'.$d1.'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="171"><div align="center" class="style2">Message:</div></td>
<td>'.$message.'</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p align="center"> </p>
';
echo "
$display
";
$subject = "Factored Designs";
$toaddress = "JEG0333@comcast.net";
$comments = "$display";
mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments, $email);
?>

if you dont want it to display on your contactus.php page, delete echo " $display ";

Mr_Chew

I see that it posts the info to the submitter after they hit submit on a new page... however when I receive an e-mail from the submitter it shows up in html like this:

john@doe.com

<body bgcolor="#BFBFBF">
<p align="center"> </p>
<table width="200" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td><div align="center" class="style2">Name:</div></td>
<td>john doe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center" class="style2">Email:</div></td>
<td>test@test.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><span class="style3">Comment</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="171"><div align="center" class="style2">Message:</div></td>
<td>nice website</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p align="center"> </p>

**This is the code I am using right now that works...

<?php
//phpScript.php
if(isset($POST['submit'])){
$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$d1=$POST['d1'];
$comments= $d1."\n\r".$_POST['message'];
$toaddress = "blah@blah.com";
$subject = "Factored Designs";

$mailheaders .= "From: $name <$EMAIL>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";

mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments, $mailheaders);

header("Location: http://www.f-designs.net");
unset($_POST['submit']);
}
?>

**How can I have the form results mailed to me so I receive an e-mail that displays the following to me....

Name:
Email:
Subject (dropdown choice):
Message:

..instead of what is currently displayed when i receive a submitted form..(ex.):
john
factored designs
tutorial request
photoshop tutorial

Kudose

<?php
//phpScript.php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$d1=$_POST['d1'];
$comments= "Name: ".$name."\n\rEmail: ".$email."\n\rSelection: ". d1."\n\rMessage: ".$_POST['message'];
$toaddress = "blah@blah.com";
$subject = "Factored Designs";

$mailheaders .= "From: $name <$EMAIL>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";

mail($toaddress, $subject, $comments, $mailheaders);

header("Location: [url]http://www.f-designs.net[/url]");
unset($_POST['submit']);
}
?>

Mr_Chew

Thank you so much for helping me out - I really appreciate it -

-Mr. Chew

Visit: www.f-designs.net 🙂

Kudose

No problem.

Please click the "Mark Thread Resolved" link at the bottom.

🙂