simple question

Anon

hello everyone!!!
I have a rather simple question but i am new to php.
I have php script named send.php and I also have two html pages with different forms.
Now I want to send these forms i want to use the same php (send.php) but I want the mail to go to different email address for each form and also to create different page after the submit is pressed.
so i wrote:
<?
FUNCTION firstform(){
PRINT "<head><title>www</title>";
PRINT "THE FIRST PAGE I WANT PHP TO CREATE";
mail("EMAIL@EMAIL.EMAIL","TITLE","WHATEVER");
}
FUNCTION secondform(){
PRINT "<head><title>www</title>";
PRINT "THE SECOND PAGE I WANT PHP TO CREATE";
mail("OTHEREMAIL@EMAIL.EMAIL","TITLE","WHATEVER");
}
who can i call these different functions inside the same php, from diffent pages?
I guess it's something like this: <FORM METHOD=post ACTION="send.php#firsform()"> from the first page and <FORM METHOD=post ACTION="send.php#secondform()"> but it want work.
thanks all!!

amcgrath

Anon

I have absolutelly no idea what to do with this.
You are saying that i must add this to the two pages inside the form tags?
something like this:
<form method="post" action="send.php" name="form1">
<input type="hidden" name="form1" value="first_form"></form>
so what should i excpect to happen?
nothing will if i do this....
i guess this is absolutelly wrong.
what should i do with this?

amcgrath

George, George, George. You are posting data from two locations to one source. If you put a hidden field in the two forms, same name on each, but a different value, then when the receiving script receive the data, a quick check of this variable will tell it what form posted to it and act accordingly.

Anon

I feel absolutelly stupid.
I want to beleive that i didn't thought it because I am tired. If this wasn't the reason maybe i should become a farmer or a politician and not a programmer.
🙁
Thanks man.

amcgrath

Blah, don't worry about it...Just to carry it farther, look at $HTTP_REFERRER too. One other thing you could do is create a function that mails info based on passed info, then you can use it anywhere (for reference, I normally write a "message" function that recevies a number, ie message(1); , and, caseing this number, returns a specific message.

if (!$some_var) {
$msg = message(7);
return;
}

would print "Your are not absolutely stupid.";

The same thinking can be applied to what you are attempting to do.

Anon

George, let me advise you on something. Beeing a programmer is not only about writing a code, but also about orgnizing it. To me your problem seem just like it has something to do with organizing it. Think of organizing a site this way:

you have one script that does it all - if it is a small site, or you have also one script that calls every other if there are too many of them.

So try to do things cetralized: have one script. I know I didn't post you any code here but I am 100% certain this advice helps.

If you don't have time to reorganize your site (your boss is peace of @!#$) then solve your problem dirty and go on approaching things differently.

I learned on college that it is the organization of the code that make good programmar good, fast, and he also lives longer.

Bye!