[RESOLVED] Drop Down Menu To Send Data To Next Page

Kerant

Hi everyone,

I have a form with a drop down menu that contains a list of countries, and a submit button. I want the user to be able to select a country from the list, then click submit.

Once submit has been pressed it should take them to a new form containing fields to contact somebody via email. I want each different country (only 4 of them) to have a different email address associated with them, and the user will be un aware of the email address they are contacting.

I'm completely stumped with this one as I am relatively new to PHP, so any advice on how I would do this would be much appreciated.

I hope I explained it well enough for you.

Thanks a lot,
Kieron

tave

Somewhere in your page you need a form similar to this:

<form action="handle_form.php" method="POST">
<select name="email">
<option value="email1@example.com">USA</option>
<option value="email2@example.com">Canada</option>
<option value="email3@example.com">Venezuela</option>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE">
</select>
</form>

Then, you will need to "handle" the form. This can be done in the same page or another one. Notice that in this case , I am going to pass the data to "handle_form.php"

The "handle_form.php" will look something like this:

<?php

if (isset($_POST['submitted']) ){  // if the form has been submitted
   echo "You will be emailing $_POST['email'] ";

}else {
   echo "what are you doing here?";

}

?>

Obviously you won't be outputting the e-mail like that. However, this shows you how to get access to the value from the drop-down menu.

Hope that helps.

p.s. - I didn't double check all of this so test it out and let me know if it works. If not the let me know and i'll help you out.

Kerant

Thanks for the reply.

I tried to just test the code that you did but I just get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\****\handle_form.php on line 4

So basically on line 4 of the handle_form.php which would be this part of the code:

 echo "You will be emailing $_POST['email'] ";

tave

replace that line with this:

echo 'You will be emailing '.$_POST['email'] ;

Kerant

Still getting the same error message buddy.

leatherback

try this:

echo "You will be emailing ". $_POST['email'] ;

If that does not solve it, copy & paste three lines before and after line 4 of handle_form.php into this thread

Kerant

That didn't work either. The code has already been posted, I'm just using the 2 different files that tave told me to try in the second post in this thread.

tave

I put it all in one document and this is what i have:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
  <meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, www.pspad.com">
  <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>

<?php 

if (isset($_POST['submitted']) ){
  echo 'You will email '.$_POST['email'];
}

?>

<form action="" method="post">
<select name="email">
<option value="email1@example.com">USA</option>
<option value="email2@example.com">Canada</option>
<option value="email3@example.com">Venezuela</option>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE" />
</select>
</form>


</body>
</html>

this works for me. It was not working for a while when i copied and pasted the php code from the forum ( i didn't want to retype it) , but after i typed it myself it worked.

try that.

Kerant

Yeah that works now, thanks a lot for your time.

I may need to ask another question or two shortly if you don't mind, so please don't lock this thread.

Thanks very much.

Kerant

Ok, sorry for leaving it so late to reply once again.

Basically I now have a form which contains a drop down box with a list of countries and a submit button. Once they choose a country and click submit, they are taken to a new form in which there is a contact page where they can send an email to an email address corresponding with the country they chose.

Now, on the first form there is an option for "Other" in the drop down box, when the user chooses the "other" option, I would like this just to direct them to a static page with some instructions on.

So my question is: how do I get the "other" option to direct them to a seperate page once they have pressed the submit button?

Thanks very much for the help.

tave

ok so , somewhere in your handle form page you would have something like this :

<?php 
if ( $_POST['country'] == 'Other'){
   header('Location:other.php');
}else {
 // display form for email.

}

?>

Kerant

Thanks very much tave, you've been a fantastic help 🙂