HELP! Sending to an email address based on menu selection

muchomacho

Hello everyone,

How can I send form results to an email address based on what the user selects from a menu?

Here's the HTML code:

<select name="Company" class="text" style="width:170px;" value="0">
<option selected>- Select Company -</option>
<option value="a" selected>A</option>
<option value="b">B</option>
<option value="c">C</option>
</select>

Here's the PHP code to send email:

//Sending Email to form owner
$pfw_header = "From: $Email\n"
  . "Reply-To: $Email\n";
$pfw_subject = "Job Application";
$pfw_email_to = "someone@abc.com";
$pfw_message = "Company: $Company\n\n"
. "First Name: $FirstName\n\n"
. "Middle Initial: $MiddleInitial\n\n"
. "Last Name: $LastName\n\n"
. "Address: $StreetName\n\n"
. "City: $City\n\n"
. "State: $State\n\n"
. "Zip Code: $ZipCode\n\n"
. "Phone: $Phone\n\n"
. "Best Time to Call: $BestTimetoCall\n\n"
. "Email: $Email\n\n"
. "High School: $HighSchool\n\n"
. "College: $College\n\n"
. "Resume: $resume_URL\n\n"
. "How Did You Find Us: $HowDidYouFindUs\n\n"
. "Referral Name: $ReferralName\n\n"
. "Race Ethnic Origin: $RaceEthnicOrigin\n\n"
. "Vietnam Veteran: $VietnamVeteran\n\n"
. "Decline: $Decline\n";
@mail($pfw_email_to, $pfw_subject ,$pfw_message ,$pfw_header ) ;

I am not sure where and how to store the emails into variables and the code to execute this. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

schwim

Hi there,

If you wanted to send it to a different email address for each option in "Company", you could do something like this in your processing page:


$Company = $_POST['Company'];

if($Company == 'a'){
    $emailaddr = 'first@email.com';
}

if($Company == 'b'){
    $emailaddr = 'second@email.com';
}
if($Company == 'c'){
    $emailaddr = 'third@email.com';
}

Then in your email script, just do this:

	$to = $emailaddr;
	$subject = "Your email subject";
	$message = "Your body goes here.";
	$headers = "From: $emailaddr" . "\r\n" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

I'm positive that there are more efficient methods of doing this, but I don't know them and I'm the only who has so far replied, so it seems that I'm the best you've got to work with 🙂

Scary thought...

Hope this helps ya.

thanks,
json

shauny17

Depending on the number of people that you will be listing, use a switch statement instead of ifs?

Simpleton53343

I understand this question was asked a while ago, but I need help with the same type of thing. I am very new to coding, so I need all the help I can get. I need to create a form that will email different people depending on which zip code they enter in.
I don't really know the difference between php, html,e tc. I know how to create the basic form, but how do I make it send to dif people depending on what they type in? Do I need to create more than one dreamweaver file, and somehow link them? I need every single direction explained to me! Thanks so much!!

schwim

I was totally ready to hop in and start throwing suggestions until you mentioned dreamweaver.

With all honesty, I have no clue how you might learn a new scripting language with an editor of that sort so I will have to leave it to someone that does.

If you didn't mind looking at the code you write, I would suggest that you start by downloading one of the thousands of form mail scripts and seeing how php interacts with html(as well as what it looks like).

thanks,
json