Form Problems!

pAppy_

I made a form in HTML for my company. Heres the code:

            <form action="orderform.php" method="POST">
              <p><strong>Personal Information</strong></p>
              <p>
                Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <input name="name" type="text" id="name" maxlength="20" />
                *
                <label></label>
                <br />
                <br />
                Address:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   

                <input name="address" type="text" id="address" maxlength="70" />
                *<br />
                <br />
              Address 2:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
              <input name="address2" type="text" id="address2" maxlength="70" />
              <br />
              <br />
              City:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
              <input name="city" type="text" id="city" maxlength="70" />
              *<br />
              <br />
              Country:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
              <input name="country" type="text" id="country" maxlength="70" />
              *</p>
              <p><strong>Contact Information</strong></p>
              <p>Primary Email:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  

                <input name="primaryemail" type="text" id="primaryemail" maxlength="50" />
                *<br />
                <br />
              Secondary Email:&nbsp;&nbsp;
              <input name="secondemail" type="text" id="secondemail" maxlength="50" />
              <br />
              <br />
              Phone:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
              <input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" maxlength="20" />
              *</p>
              <p><strong>Ventrilo Server Information </strong></p>
              <p>Ventrilo Server Slots<br />
                <label>
                <select name="select">
                  <option value="10">10 Slots ($3.50)</option>
                  <option value="15">15 Slots ($5.25)</option>
                  <option value="20">20 Slots ($7.00)</option>
                  <option value="25">25 Slots ($8.75)</option>
                  <option value="30">30 Slots ($10.50)</option>
                  <option value="35">35 Slots ($12.25)</option>
                  <option value="40">40 Slots ($14.00)</option>
                  <option value="45">45 Slots ($15.75)</option>
                  <option value="50">50 Slots ($17.50)</option>
                  <<option value="75">75 Slots ($26.25)</option>
                  <option value="100">100 Slots ($35.00)</option>
                </select>
                </label>
</p>
              <p>Ventrilo Server Location<br />
                <label>
                <select name="select2">
                  <option value="seattle">Seattle, Washington</option>
                  <option value="LA">>Los Angeles, California</option>
                  <option value="dallas">Dallas, Texas</option>
                  <<option value="NY">New York, New York</option>
                  <option value="chicago">Chicago, Illinois</option>
                  <option value="toronto">Toronto, Ontario</option>
                  <option value="montreal">Montreal, Quebec</option>
                </select>
                </label>
</p>
              <p>Ventrilo Server Title: 
                <input name="ventrilotitle" type="text" id="ventrilotitle" maxlength="70" /> 
                *<br />
                <br />
                Connect Password:&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                <input name="serverpw" type="text" id="serverpw" maxlength="70" />
              </p>
              <p><strong>Login Information</strong></p>
              <p>CPanel Login:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  

                <input name="cpanelusername" type="text" id="cpanelusername" maxlength="70" />
                *<br />
                <br />
                CPanel Password: 
                <input name="cpanelpw" type="text" id="cpanelpw" maxlength="70" />
              *<br />
              </p>
              <p>Additional Comments:<BR>
<textarea name="comments" cols="35" rows="4" wrap="virtual"></textarea>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<label>
<input type="submit" value="Next >">
</label></p>
            </form>

Now I need this to be sent to my email with all the required fields.. So I started to make orderform.php, this is when I got confused!

<html>
<body>Name: <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?><br />
Address: <?php echo $_POST["address"]; ?><br />
Address 2: <?php echo $_POST["address2"]; ?><br />
City: <?php echo $_POST["city"]; ?><br />
Primary Email: <?php echo $_POST["primaryemail"]; ?><br />
Secondary Email: <?php echo $_POST["secondemail"]; ?><br />
Phone: <?php echo $_POST["phone"]; ?><br />
Server Slots: <?php echo $_POST["ventrilo"]; ?><br />
Server Location: <?php echo $_POST["ventlocation"]; ?><br />
Server Name: <?php echo $_POST["ventriloname"]; ?><br />
Server Password: <?php echo $_POST["serverpw"]; ?><br />
CPanel Login: <?php echo $_POST["cpanelusername"]; ?><br />
CPanel Password: <?php echo $_POST["cpanelpw"]; ?><br />
Additional Comments: <?php echo $_POST["comments"]; ?><br />



</body>
</html>

The text fields with the "*" are required.. I also was wondering how to force the client to fill those in before they can continue--popup saying, All required fields not complete!

I got to the drop down menu and didn't really know what to do.. I need all this submitted to my EMAIL when the user clicks Submit. I was also wondering how to make the drop down list (The list with MONEY invloved) attach paypal links so when they submit the form, it will transfer them to the paypal site to pay for what they chose in the MONEY list. Any help would be greatly apprechiated!

Thanks again for all your help!

pppppp

u can use javascript for validation to pop up

Houdini

Popups would require the use of javascript so you need to add a javascript function which checks each of the required fields till they have infact filled out the required fields.

Then on your oderform.php you would take all the information and use the mail() funtion to send the email. In this page you can then after getting the information sent via the mail() function you would use a header() function to send them to yet another page with the selected price information and present it however you wish with a link to paypal. You could call the page payment.php and redirect in the orderform.php it would look like header("Location: payment.php?payment=price"); or header("Location: payment.php") if you use session variables to keep the data and don't want to show variables in the URL.

Weedpacket

Note that you should still have PHP check that all fields are filled in (for the simple reason that you can't really trust the user's computer to do what you want it to do). [man]empty[/man] would be good enough for this. If it is necessary to redisplay the form (so that the user can fill it in again properly), you can use things like

<input name="city" type="text" id="city" maxlength="70" value="<?php echo $_POST['city']?>" />

when redisplaying the form so that they don't have to retype everything.

dmacman1962

I took your form and made a sample 'orderform.php' for it.

//get the POST information from the form
$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$name = addslashes($_POST['name']); // you would do this for all your fields

//check and see if they filled out the field, if no, make them go back, again, do this for all required fields
if (empty($name))
{
die("<p align='center'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='#FF0000'>You did not enter a name.<br>Please use the <a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'><b>back</b></a> button to correct this entry.</font></p>");
}
//Send the  email. You can write this to include whatever you want from the form
$pfw_header = "From: ".$name;
$pfw_subject = "Whatever you want this to say";
$pfw_email_to = "you@somewhere.com";
$pfw_message = $message."\n"
. "Name: $name\n";
mail($pfw_email_to, $pfw_subject ,$pfw_message ,$pfw_header ) ;

That should get you closer. This is not the only way to do what you want, but will work for your scenario.

Don

pAppy_

Thanks for all the helpful feedback gentlemen. I'm a REAL beginner at this stuff, so i'm trying to translate what's been suggested and trying to figure out how to make all this coding work together.