Form Email Results problem

[badgerboy]

Hi!
I'm another confused new user.

Have built a form and everything is fine but I wanted to send the form results to email. I have cracked the easy bit in that the name, email address and message get sent but whenever I try to display the choices from the check boxes, 'array' is printed. The code is below.

<?php
echo "<p><font face=\"arial\">Thank you, <b>".$POST["name"]."</b>, for your message!</p>";
echo "<p>Your e-mail address is: <b>".$POST["email"]."</b>.</p>";
echo "<p>Your product choices are:<br/>";
if (!empty($POST["brochure"])) {
echo "<ul>";
foreach ($POST["brochure"] as $value) {
echo "<li>$value</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
}
echo "<p>Your message was:<br />";
echo $_POST["message"]."</p>";
echo "</font>";

$msg = "<p><strong>Name:</strong> ".$POST["name"]."</p>";
$msg .= "<p><strong>E-Mail:</strong> ".$POST["email"]."</p>";
$msg .= "<p><strong>Message:</strong> ".$_POST["message"]."</p>";

Getting the right mail string on this line is the problem

$recipient = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Form Submission Results";
$mailheaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "From: My Web Site <[e-mail]> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"];
//send the mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

I've been trying different loops but nothing seems to work. 🙂 🙂 Its probably really easy so I thought someone might have a quick solution.

Thanx for your help guys!!

[dougal85]

when a checkbox is not checked. It doesnt send a empty value, like a text input would.

It sends nothing.

Could this be the problem? 🙂

Also can we see the for HTML for the check boxes.

thanks 😉

[leatherback]

hi,

If you have a group of check-boxes, all with the same name (e.g., name=name[]) then in your post array you will get:

$_POST['name'] = array();

So you will need to loop through the array:

$checks = $_POST['name'];
foreach($checks as $key => $value)
  {
  echo $value;
  }

Check the $_POST array by:

print_r($_POST);

which will show you the content of the vars.

[dougal85]

badgerboy wrote:

	foreach ($_POST["brochure"] as $value) {
		echo "<li>$value</li>";
	}

I think he may have had that, however.... its hard to tell when we cant see the form!

[badgerboy]

Hi

Thanks for replies!!
Dougal 85, Below is the HTML for the check boxes.

<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Straightaway">Straightaway </td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Fa&ccedil;ade">Fa&ccedil;ade</td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">

<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Straightaway 100SS"> Straightaway 100SS</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Movable Walls"> Movable Walls</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Glassmaster 100"> Glassmaster 100</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Wallmaster"> Wallmaster </td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Interior Sliding"> Interior Sliding </td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Automatic Operators"> Automatic Operators </td>
</tr>

	   <tr valign="top"> 
        <td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Foldaside & Cornaway"> Foldaside & Cornaway</td>
        <td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Supplementary Door  Gears"> Supplementary Door Gears </td>
       </tr>

	    <tr valign="top"> 
        <td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Buyers Guide"> Buyers Guide</td>
        <td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Glidemaster"> Glidemaster </td>
       </tr>

So there's the html. I'm trying your solution leatherback but still getting 'array' as message in my email instead of a list of items.

Still trying solutions!

[dougal85]

badgerboy wrote:

<input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Straightaway">

you do have "name="brochure[]" so you halready have leatherbacks good suggestion.

I cant see anything wrong really.

at the start of the form, in <form> have you got the action set to POST?

<form action="post">

you could try doing this line to check what is coming through from the form;

print_r($_POST);

[leatherback]

So, taking things together, please try this sort of structure, without trying to do the emailing Just try to get the values parsed properly:

The form:

<form action="YourProcessingScript.php" method="post">
....
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Straightaway">Straightaway </td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Fa&ccedil;ade">Fa&ccedil;ade</td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Straightaway 100SS"> Straightaway 100SS</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Movable Walls"> Movable Walls</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Glassmaster 100"> Glassmaster 100</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Wallmaster"> Wallmaster </td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Interior Sliding"> Interior Sliding </td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Automatic Operators"> Automatic Operators </td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Foldaside & Cornaway"> Foldaside & Cornaway</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Supplementary Door Gears"> Supplementary Door Gears </td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Buyers Guide"> Buyers Guide</td>
<td width="50%" class="copy"> <input type="checkbox" name="brochure[]" value="Glidemaster"> Glidemaster </td>
</tr>
...
</form>

The YourProcessingScript.php:

print_r($_POST);
$brochures = $_POST['brochure'];

foreach($brochures as $key=>$value)
  {
  Echo "Brochure ".$key.": ".$value."<br />";
  }

[badgerboy]

Thanks again guys,

Everything is coming through fine on confirmation message after i submit the form. It lists multiple selections etc. so everything in the form is fine, its just a matter of getting this list to my email (which still prints everything but the list from the checkboxes).
Cheers

[leatherback]

Badger.

READ the post, and test them
Then post the output, and the script you used to create them.

This is fairly straightforward stuff, and really should not result in a lot of headaches for you.

I am particularly interested in what the second snippet I posted in my previous post generates for you.

[dougal85]

badgerboy wrote:

Thanks again guys,

Everything is coming through fine on confirmation message after i submit the form. It lists multiple selections etc. so everything in the form is fine, its just a matter of getting this list to my email (which still prints everything but the list from the checkboxes).
Cheers

ok, so the form is working?

The data is passing through and displaying out properly?

all you need now is to use the mail() function. 🙂

good luck and let us know if you have further problems.