mail form help please

[fun_in_my_brain]

Hi all, this is another newbie crying out for help after several hours of looking alot of coding and not being able to understand a thing!

I've basically created a simple email form in html and used php scripting to send the form to my email...now..I thought I should inlcude more options in this form to filter out some data I'm collecting in my emails. So i've now included some radio buttons and drop down list/menu.

I've entered all the values and labels, the main question is how do I get the form to send the selected values along with the usual info i.e. name, address, email etc to my email?

I've included my existing form I wish to update if it's any help! 😃

<?
$mailto = '[e-mail]' ;
$subject = "Feedback Form" ;

$formurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/contact.html" ;
$errorurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/error.html" ;
$thankyouurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/thanks.html" ;

$uself = 0;


$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$comments = $_POST['comments'] ;
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );

if (!isset($_POST['email'])) {
	header( "Location: $formurl" );
	exit ;
}
if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($comments)) {
   header( "Location: $errorurl" );
   exit ;
}
if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) ) {
	header( "Location: $errorurl" );
	exit ;
}

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
	$comments = stripslashes( $comments );
}

$messageproper =

"This message was sent from:\n" .
"$http_referrer\n" .
"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
"Name of sender: $name\n" .
"Email of sender: $email\n" .
"------------------------- COMMENTS -------------------------\n\n" .
$comments .
"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" ;

mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper,
	"From: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.07" );
header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
exit ;

?>
 

[dagon]

$whatever = $_POST['form input name'] ;

for each form input\select etc

[fun_in_my_brain]

Thanks for that its helped alot! but one thing when the email is sent the data i receive is all in one line! how do i change it to become separated?

This is what i've done so far:

$mailto = '[e-mail]' ;
$subject = "Feedback Form" ;

$formurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/contact.html" ;
$errorurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/error.html" ;
$thankyouurl = "http://www.something.co.uk/thanks.html" ; 

$uself = 0; 

// -------------------- END OF CONFIGURABLE SECTION ---------------$

$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$name = $_POST['name'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$postcode = $_POST['postcode'];
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$mobile = $_POST['mobile'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$dob = $_POST['dob'];
$radio = $_POST['sex'] ;
$radio = $_POST['membership'];
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );

if (!isset($_POST['email'])) {
	header( "Location: $formurl" );
	exit ;
}
if (empty($name) || empty($email)) {
   header( "Location: $errorurl" );
   exit ;
}
if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) ) {
	header( "Location: $errorurl" );
	exit ;
}

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
	$comments = stripslashes( $comments );
}


$messageproper =

"This message was sent from:\n" .
"$http_referrer\n" .
"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
"Name of sender: $name\n" .
"Email of sender: $email\n" .
"------------------------- Membership -------------------------\n\n" .
$name.
$email.
$address.
$postcode.
$telephone.
$mobile.
$dob.
$radio.
$radio.

"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" ;

mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper,
    "From: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.07" );
header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
exit ;

?>

[suntra]

If the email is sent in plain text, you need to use "\n" to insert a newline.

If is it sent in HTML, then "<br />\n"

(you must use double quotes, not singles, otherwise you will see \n and no new line !)

[fun_in_my_brain]

you've lost me, where do i put it?

sorry for being a gumbie but i'm new to this all!

****hold up!
i think it just clicked! dont worry about this post!

[bradgrafelman]

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