Implementing Select in a form

Beginners - Learning PHP
#1

I am trying to adapt a SELECT option in a contact form.
Based on a selection, I trying to assign an email address of the email recipient based on the selection.
I tried it with if else if but it did not work. CASE appears not to work either.

Can anyone help?

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<?php $errors = ''; $equipment = $_POST['equipment']; switch ($equipment) { case 'Vehicle': $myemail = '[email protected]'; echo "Mailto: ".$myemail."
"; case 'Communication': $myemail = '[email protected]'; echo "Mailto: ".$myemail."
"; case 'Camera': $myemail = '[email protected]'; echo "Mailto: ".$myemail."
"; case 'Other': $myemail = '[email protected]'; echo "Mailto: ".$myemail."
"; } $name = $_POST['name']; $email_address = $_POST['email']; $phone = $_POST['phone']; $grade = $_POST['grade']; $message = $_POST['message']; if (!preg_match( "/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i", $email_address)) { $errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address"; } if( empty($errors)) { $to = $myemail; $email_subject = "Information request from: $name"; $email_body = "You have received a new message. ". " Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n $phone \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message"; $headers = "From: $myemail\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address"; mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers); header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html'); echo "Message deliverd"; } ?>

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[php]

Send to:


Vehicle
Communications
Camera
Other



Your Name:


Email:


Phone:


Message:
Your
Message…

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#2

Why are you echoing a mailto?

It seems like an email is tied to each category. So, a single variable would gets it’s value based on the submitted SELECT. Then then email would go to that address. I would also advise reading up on a break statement and what it is for.

#3

Thanks for your response.
The echoing of the mailto is only for debugging purposes. Apparently the email addresses are not being assigned to the respective selected item.
I will read about break which I have no knowledge.

#4

After testing your code, the only issue looks to be the missing break statement. You can read about it here.

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.break.php

#5

Thanks,

I got it to work.

#6

There are a lot of ways to do things, but this is a way I would handle it, with less code:

[php]
$myemail = array(
‘Vehicle’ => ‘[email protected]’,
‘Communications’ => ‘[email protected]’,
‘Camera’ => ‘[email protected]’,
‘Other’ => ‘[email protected]’,
);
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And to show how it works,
[php] echo "Send email to: " . $myemail[ $_POST[‘equipment’] ];[/php]

#7

Thanks for your suggestion.

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