Posting Option Value To E-mail

[urbansmooth]

How would I send an option value to e-mail? You know, the drop-down menu option that is selected? How would I send that to e-mail?

[Option Selected][V] -> [e-mail]

^Drop down list/Option ^My e-mail address.

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This should be simple enough, right? Please tell me how to script it.

[bpat1434]

<select name="email">
<option value="[e-mail]">My Email or Name</option>
</select>

In PHP, just grab the $_POST['email'] variable nad use it as the address.

If you'd like to see a more intricate example, head over to:
Contact Page
Take a look at the source. You'll see my select box for the recipient. I'll post the PHP code here for you to look at:

require_once('Mail.php');
require_once('PEAR.php');

$recipients = array(
				'president'		=>		'[e-mail]',
				'vicepres'		=>		'[e-mail]',
				'emscapt'		=>		'[e-mail]',
				'firechief'		=>		'[e-mail]',
				'webmaster'		=>		'[e-mail]'
				);

foreach($recipients as $rcpt => $adrs)
{
	if($rcpt == $_REQUEST['recip'])
	{
		$Recip = $adrs;
	}
}
// Some other stuff here for my emails
$recips = $Recip.', ';
$recips .= $Email;

$headers['From'] = $fromcc;
$headers['To'] = $Recip;
$headers['Cc'] = $fromcc;
$headers['Subject'] = $Subject;
$headers['Date'] = date("r");
// Then I send it out

So I don't allow any visitors to see the email address, but I do get it from my PHP script. A little more secure, but a lot more intricate.

~Brett

[urbansmooth]

Thanks a lot, really!

How would I code the PHP to POST several values from several corresponding drop-down menus/option values?

[option 1]
[option 2]
[option 3] ------> My e-mail.
[option 4]
[option 5]

etc.

Also, would you know about this?
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10300987

[bpat1434]

Give each individual select box it's own unique name, and refer to it as "$_POST['select_box_name']".

That will give you the value of the selected option.

~Brett

[urbansmooth]

Uhm, I think I need the simplest example possible, with the least amount of code possible, being as specific as possible on how to simply POST something from a drop down menu by pressing a submit button to send the POST data to another PHP page.

So:
[Item] --> (submit button ) --> Another PHP page

[bpat1434]

HTML Page:

<form method="post" action="page.php">
<select name="myselect">
  <option value="1">Option 1</option>
  <option value="2">Option 2</option>
  <option value="3">Option 3</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go!!">
</form>

PHP Page:

<?php
$selected = $_POST['myselect'];
echo $selected;
?>

That will ouput a form with a drop-down menu. When the submit button is pressed, it will post the value of the selected option to the PHP page. The PHP page will grab the posted value, and just echo it out to the browser.

~Brett

[urbansmooth]

Ok, thanks, will try it out and see what I can do with it!