How do I get multi subjects in a email form from various form fields?

[Gladsbane]

I have been working on a email based application form and stumbled across a problem.

I have 3 form fields that I would like to use as the subject in my application.php file.

id="cname" (example: Gladsbane)
id="cspec" (example: Elemental)
id="cclass" (example: Shaman)

So the email subject should look like this: Gladsbane Elemental Shaman

Now in my apply.php file that actually grabs the data and emails it..

$subject = $_POST['cname'];

I can only get one field in the email subject and not any others. How can I modify the subject to post 3 different form fields together? I have tried playing around with it and did some research but found nothing.

[djjjozsi]

something like this:

  subject1
  <input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
  <br>
  subject2 
  <input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
  <br>
  subject3  

  <input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">

if(isset($_POST["subjects"]))
{
$subjects=implode(" ",$_POST["subjects"]);
print $subjects;
}

or you can use the foreach() to get the subjects array

[Gladsbane]

that worked!

Now that I got that working, I tried getting the message part for my application form to work properly, it almost seems like the same thing needs to be done but I dont see how it can be done.

Here is what I want to include in the message of the email.

id="name"
id="age"
id="mail"
id="life"
id="subjects[]"
id="subjects[]"
id="subjects[]"
id="armory"
id="wws"
id="alts"
id="history"
id="exp"

Here is my php code in my other file

$message = $_POST['name'];

I am very novice when it comes to php, been breaking out of my html shell

[Gladsbane]

Ok I figured it out but I am still having some problems

<?php
$firstn= $POST['firstn'];
$age= $POST['age'];
$mail= $POST['mail'];
$life= $POST['life'];
$subjects[1]= $_POST['subjects[1]']; <===

// Contact subject
if(isset($POST["subjects"]))
{
$subjects=implode(" ",$POST["subjects"]);
print $subjects;
}

// Details
$message =" Application from \n
Name: $firstn \n
Age: $age \n
Email: $mail \n
Character Name: $subjects[1] \n
";
// Mail of sender
$mail_from = $_POST['customer_mail'];
// From
$header = "from: $name <$mail_from>";
// Enter your email address
$to ='[e-mail]';
$send_contact = mail($to, $subjects, $message, $header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

I got the 3 subject fields parsing what I want in the email subject. Now that I orginally named all three form fields "subjects[]" , how do i refer to any of them specifically instead of all 3? I want the 3 form fields to also be parsed into the message of them email because its a part of the application.

[Gladsbane]

Instead of changing the form names like you explained to do here:
subject1
<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
<br>
subject2
<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
<br>
subject3

<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">

if(isset($POST["subjects"]))
{
$subjects=implode(" ",$POST["subjects"]);
print $subjects;
}

couldnt i just set them as a global parimeter like this?

$cname= $POST['cname'];
$cclass= $POST['cclass'];
$cspec= $_POST['cspec'];

$subject ="$cname, $cspec, $cclass";

[harmor]

Gladsbane;10905707 wrote:

Instead of changing the form names like you explained to do here:
subject1
<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
<br>
subject2
<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">
<br>
subject3

<input name="subjects[]" type="text" id="subjects[]">

if(isset($POST["subjects"]))
{
$subjects=implode(" ",$POST["subjects"]);
print $subjects;
}

couldnt i just set them as a global parimeter like this?

$cname= $POST['cname'];
$cclass= $POST['cclass'];
$cspec= $_POST['cspec'];

$subject ="$cname, $cspec, $cclass";

Yes but take out the commas otherwise your subject will look like "Gladsbane, Elemental, Shaman"

[Gladsbane]

I tried it with the global parimeters that i set for the form fields.

$subject ="$cname, $cspec, $cclass";

Tested it and in the email i recieved it isnt parsing the subject fields, just comes up as no subject.

[harmor]

Gladsbane;10905710 wrote:

I tried it with the global parimeters that i set for the form fields.

$subject ="$cname, $cspec, $cclass";

Tested it and in the email i recieved it isnt parsing the subject fields, just comes up as no subject.

Comment out your mail function so it doesn't send emails and echo out $POST['cname'] $POST['cspec'] $_POST['cclass']

echo "Name: ".$_POST['cname']."<br />
Spec: ".$_POST['cspec']."<br />
Class: ".$_POST['cclass']."";

[Gladsbane]

i found the problem

$send_contact = mail($to, $subjects, $message, $header);

changed to

$send_contact = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

thats why it was comming up with no subject because it was refering from nothing, mistake that i made. I will have further questions that will arrise, still working on completing everything to work properly. relatively new to coding php, thing im doing ok for my first script.

[Gladsbane]

Ok my application is complete, need help with one more thing.

<?php
$firstn= $POST['firstn'];
$age= $POST['age'];
$mail= $POST['mail'];
$life= $POST['life'];
$cname= $POST['cname'];
$cclass= $POST['cclass'];
$cspec= $POST['cspec'];
$armory= $POST['armory'];
$wws= $POST['wws'];
$alts= $POST['alts'];
$history= $POST['history'];
$exp= $POST['exp'];
$role= $POST['role'];
$joinus= $POST['joinus'];

// Contact subject
$subject ="$cname, $cspec $cclass";

// Details
$message =" Application from \n
Name: $firstn \n
Age: $age \n
Email: $mail \n
About: $life \n
Character Name: $cname \n
Character Class: $cclass \n
Character Spec: $cspec \n
Armory Link: $armory \n
WWS Log: $wws \n
Alts: $alts \n
Guild History: $history \n
Experience: $exp \n
Class Role & Knowledge: $role \n
Why choose this application: $joinus \n
";
// Mail of sender
$mail_from = $_POST['mail'];
// From
$header = "from: $name <$mail_from>";
// Enter your email address
$to ='[e-mail]';
$send_contact = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"

if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

The part that is bolded is what I want to change.

When I click submit application, it takes me to a blank page with "We've recived your contact information".

I want to create an external php file that will post this onto my site with the theme and everything instead of it just coming up blank with no parts of my web site included.

Here is the PHP file I created.

if (!eregi("modules.php", $PHP_SELF)) {
die ("You can't access this file directly...");

}
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(FILE));
get_lang($module_name);
include("header.php");
$index = 0;
OpenTable();
echo"We have recieved your contact information";
CloseTable();
include("footer.php");