I need help with my email form php code

General PHP Help
#1

Hi, this is the first thing I’ve tried with php so I’m a bit confused. I found some tutorials online and took different elements from them all for my email form, and also tried to do that with the code but the frankencode doesnt work. I want each different thing on the drop down menus to be able to go to a different email address. Right now theyre all set on the same email so I can test it.
The website is here

http://myareasbest.com/contact.html

and heres my code

<?php $mailto = $_POST['me']; if($mailto == 'info') { $subject = "Question/Comment"; $name_field = $_POST['name']; $email_field = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; $email = "[email protected]"; }elseif($mailto == 'complaints'){ $email = "[email protected]"; echo "Email has been submitted to $to!"; mail($to, $subject, $body); }; ?>
#2

Hi there,

Firstly, where you’ve put $to I think you were supposed to put $email - $to hasn’t been declared.
I have gone ahead and made changes to your code as I saw fit.

[php]
<?php
$type = ($_POST[‘me’] != “select”) ? $_POST[‘me’] : “info”;

    $name_field = $_POST['name'];
    $email_field = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $email = "[email protected]";

    if($type == 'info')
    {
        $subject = "Question/Comment";
        $body = "    Name: ".$name_field."\n
                    Email: ".$email_field."\n
                    Message: ".$message;
    }
    if($type == 'complaints')
    {
        $subject = "Complaint";
        $body = $name_field." (".$email_field.") has made a complaint:\n\n
                ".$message;
    }

    echo "Email has been submitted!"; //You may not want to tell them what your email address is!

    mail($email, $subject, $body);
    ?>

[/php]

If you have any questions or problems with the code, just let me know although all I’ve really done is shift bits about.

#3

thanks for your help, however im still having problems. i tested it and got an email in my spam folder that may have been it, but it didnt include any information i put in the fields or the message. i also have several different emails that i want to use, one for each subjuct. heres my html code.

Name:

E-Mail:

Subject: Select Questions/Comments Complaints

Message:






For Clients

Name:

E-Mail:

Subject: Select Support General

Message:



#4

Hi there, check out the code below:

[php]

<?php error_reporting(E_ALL); if(isset($_POST['form_sub'])) { $type = ($_POST['me'] != "select") ? $_POST['me'] : "info"; $name_field = $_POST['name']; $email_field = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; /* * Create a more specific set of emails */ $emails = array( "info" => "[email protected]", "complaints" => "[email protected]", "support" => "[email protected]", "general" => "[email protected]" ); $email = $emails[$type]; /* * Or simply... */ $email = $type."@host.com"; if($type == 'info') { $subject = "Question/Comment"; $body = " Name: ".$name_field."
Email: ".$email_field."
Message: ".$message; } if($type == 'complaints') { $subject = "Complaint"; $body = $name_field." (".$email_field.") has made a complaint:

".$message; } $status = mail($email, $subject, $body, "From: [email protected]; \r\n Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1;"); echo ($status) ? "Email has been sent!" : "There was a problem in sending the email."; } ?>

[/php]

That’s the php (you’ll notice I added some header information in the mail() function - this is only because I personally prefer HTML emails, but you may want to remove that if you are thinking of viewing them on a phone).

In terms of the HTML all I did was remove this from the form tag:

enctype="text/plain"

And changed the submit button to:

<input type="submit" name="form_sub" />

Give that a go, and let me know what happens.

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