Collecting values from a Drop-down box for a sendmail script.

I have this for the form in HTML

    <tr>
    <td>                <label for="service">Service Required <span class="red">*</span></label>
        <div align="left"><font size="-2" >(You can hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard while selecting multiple services.)</font></div>

  </td>
    <td><select id="service" name="service">
    <option>...</option>
<option name="service" value="GeneralContact">General Contact</option>
<option name="service" value="WebsiteServices">Website Services</option>
<option name="service" value="TechnicalSupportServices">Technical Support Services</option>
<option name="service" value="NetworkSupportServices">Network Support Services</option>
<option name="service" value="CustomSystems">Custom Systems</option>

</select> 
 </td> 
  </tr>

HTML:

and this for the code in php

    $services = $_POST['service']; // required

PHP:

    $email_message .= "Service Required: ".clean_string($services)."\n";

PHP:

Now, no matter what I have tried the services required value will not send in the email. It comes out blank every time and it is getting quite annoying.


Any ideas anyone?

Thank you.

 

echo out $email_message; in your reply.

also post the relevant code which sends the mail.

 

	$email_message = "Contact Form details below.\n\n";
	
	function clean_string($string) {
	  $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
	  return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
	}
	
	$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
	$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
	$email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
	$email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n"; 
	$email_message .= "Service Required: ".clean_string($services)."\n";
	$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
	
	
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

PHP:

 

1. Remove the @, because your supressing errors!

2. You added $email_subject within the mail() but $subject within $email_message??

Use this, make sure all variables are defined correctly:

<?php
  error_reporting(E_ALL);
  
  function clean_string($string)
  {
      $bad = array("content-type", "bcc:", "to:", "cc:", "href");
      return str_replace($bad, "", $string);
  }
  
  
  $email_to = "your@email.com";

  $email_from = "dan@google.com";
  $name = "Dan M.";
  $company = "Google";
  $subject = "Testing Email";
  $services = "PHP Coding";
  $message = "Testing the email...."
  
  $email_message = "Contact Form details below.\n\n";
  
  $email_message .= "Name: " . clean_string($name) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Email: " . clean_string($email_from) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Company: " . clean_string($company) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Subject: " . clean_string($subject) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Service Required: " . clean_string($services) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Message: " . clean_string($message) . "\n";
  
  
  // create email headers
  $headers = 'From: ' . $email_from . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email_from . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
  
  
  mail($email_to, $subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>

PHP:

 

Why do people do this? What possible value does it have?

If you want to put something useful in, put "X-Client-IP: {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}".

 

I agree, but I believe its because php has set it as an example (Example #2 -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php)

 

This doesn't help solve my problem though...

 

Soo ungrateful...

You need to help me, so I can help you. Have you tried the code I posted?, any errors?, whats not solved?...

 

Your code for the submit page:

<?php
  error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
  function clean_string($string)
  {
      $bad = array("content-type", "bcc:", "to:", "cc:", "href");
      return str_replace($bad, "", $string);
  }
 if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
 
  $email_to = "your@email.com";

  //make sure all of these match the name's on your input fields
  $email_from = strip_tags($_POST['email_from']);
  $name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
  $company = strip_tags($_POST['company']);
  $subject = strip_tags($_POST['subject']);
  $service = strip_tags($_POST['service']);
  $message = strip_tags($_POST['message']);
 
  $email_message = "Contact Form details below.\n\n";
 
  $email_message .= "Name: " . clean_string($name) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Email: " . clean_string($email_from) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Company: " . clean_string($company) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Subject: " . clean_string($subject) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Service Required: " . clean_string($service) . "\n";
  $email_message .= "Message: " . clean_string($message) . "\n";
 
 
  // create email headers
  $headers = 'From: ' . $email_from . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email_from . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
 
 
  mail($email_to, $subject, $email_message, $headers);
  }
?>

PHP:

And your html for 'services' should be:

<tr>
    <td>                <label for="service">Service Required <span class="red">*</span></label>
        <div align="left"><font size="-2" >(You can hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard while selecting multiple services.)</font></div>

  </td>
    <td><select id="service" name="service">
    <option>...</option>
<option value="GeneralContact">General Contact</option>
<option value="WebsiteServices">Website Services</option>
<option value="TechnicalSupportServices">Technical Support Services</option>
<option value="NetworkSupportServices">Network Support Services</option>
<option value="CustomSystems">Custom Systems</option>

</select>
 </td>
  </tr>

Code (markup):

 

If I put this in the php file for $services

$services = "PHP Coding";

PHP:

It sends that in the email. I need it to collect the answer from the drop-down box in the form and send that though.

 

Read my above post, the problem was that you were assigning a name for each option when you only need to assign it to the select tag.

 

Then I am getting these errors using that code

Notice: Undefined index: email_from in /home/pcanswe1/public_html/contact.php on line 15

Notice: Undefined index: service in /home/pcanswe1/public_html/contact.php on line 19

Code (markup):

it is for the "email_from" line and the "services" line

 

after editing a few more things it is just the "service" tag that is causing issues.....

It just doesn't seem to be collecting it from the form.

 

I've tested ->

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=13555042&postcount=9

and seems to work fine.

 

I tried yours several times and it doesn't even send the email to my address.....with mine it sends everything BUT the "service" response in the form

It gives me the same error with the "strip_tags" command in there as well.

This error:

Notice: Undefined index: service in /home/pcanswe1/public_html/contact.php on line 19

PHP:

 

OK post both all your php code and complete html form which your using now. Snippets are no help.

 

OK here you go...

This is the form...

          <form action="contact.php" method="post" id="contactform" name="contactform">
          
          <table width="575" border="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="name">your name <span class="red">*</span></label>
</td>
    <td>                <input id="name" name="name" class="text" />
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="email">Your email <span class="red">*</span></label>
</td>
    <td>                <input id="email" name="email" class="text" />
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="company">Company Name</label>
  </td>
    <td>                <input id="company" name="company" class="text" />
  </td> 
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>                <label for="subject">Subject</label>
  </td>
    <td>                <input id="subject" name="subject" class="text" />
  </td> 
  </tr>
  
<tr>
    <td>                <label for="service">Service Required <span class="red">*</span></label>
        <div align="left"><font size="-2" >(You can hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard while selecting multiple services.)</font></div>

  </td>
    <td><select id="service" name="service">
    <option>...</option>
<option value="GeneralContact">General Contact</option>
<option value="WebsiteServices">Website Services</option>
<option value="TechnicalSupportServices">Technical Support Services</option>
<option value="NetworkSupportServices">Network Support Services</option>
<option value="CustomSystems">Custom Systems</option>

</select>
 </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="message">Message <span class="red">*</span></label>
  </td>
    <td><textarea id="message" name="message" rows="6" cols="50"></textarea></td> 
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center">                             <input type="image" name="imageField" id="imageField" src="images/but_send_message.gif" />
  </td>
  </tr>

</table>
   </form>

HTML:

And this is the content of the contact.php file that send the email now just with the error for the "service" tag...

<?php

  error_reporting(E_ALL);


if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
    
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "js.pcanswers@gmail.com";
    $email_subject = "Contact Form Email from PCAnswers-usa.com. ";
    
    
    
    $name = $_POST['name']; // required
    $subject = $_POST['subject']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    
    $company = $_POST['company']; // required

    $service = $_POST['service']; // required

    $message = $_POST['message']; // required
    
    
    
    
    
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
      $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }

  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
      died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
    
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
    
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n"; 
    $email_message .= "Service Required: ".clean_string($service)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
    
    
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>

<!-- include your own success html here -->

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?
}
?>

PHP:

and there you go....

 

And for this I didn't mean to sound ungrateful....I am just getting very irritated with this problem. And I thank you for your help.

 

HTML form:

<form action="contact.php" method="post" id="contactform" name="contactform">
         
          <table width="575" border="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="name">Your Name <span class="red">*</span></label>
</td>
    <td>                <input id="name" name="name" class="text" />
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="email">Your Email <span class="red">*</span></label>
</td>
    <td>                <input id="email" name="email" class="text" />
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="company">Company Name</label>
  </td>
    <td>                <input id="company" name="company" class="text" />
  </td>
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>                <label for="subject">Subject</label>
  </td>
    <td>                <input id="subject" name="subject" class="text" />
  </td>
  </tr>
 
<tr>
    <td>                <label for="service">Service Required <span class="red">*</span></label>
        <div align="left"><font size="-2" >(You can hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard while selecting multiple services.)</font></div>

  </td>
    <td><select id="service" name="service">
<option value="">...</option>
<option value="GeneralContact">General Contact</option>
<option value="WebsiteServices">Website Services</option>
<option value="TechnicalSupportServices">Technical Support Services</option>
<option value="NetworkSupportServices">Network Support Services</option>
<option value="CustomSystems">Custom Systems</option>

</select>
 </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>                <label for="message">Message <span class="red">*</span></label>
  </td>
    <td><textarea id="message" name="message" rows="6" cols="50"></textarea></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center">                             <input type="image" name="imageField" id="imageField" src="images/but_send_message.gif" />
  </td>
  </tr>

</table>
   </form>

Code (markup):

contact.php:

<?php

  error_reporting(E_ALL);


if(!empty($_POST['name']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['service']) && !empty($_POST['message'])){
   
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "js.pcanswers@gmail.com";
    $email_subject = "Contact Form Email from PCAnswers-usa.com. ";
   
  
    $name = $_POST['name']; // required
    $subject = $_POST['subject']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
   
    $company = $_POST['company']; // required

    $service = $_POST['service']; // required

    $message = $_POST['message']; // required
   
    $error_message = "";

    $email_exp = "/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/";
    
    if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
    }


    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
   
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
   
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Subject: ".clean_string($subject)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Service Required: ".clean_string($service)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
   
   
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

if($error_message == "" && mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers)){
//sucessfully sent
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
} else {
//email address invalid
echo $error_message;
}
}
?>

PHP:

 

that solution sends no email for me