PHP Form Trouble.

Pádraig · #1 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2007, 17:49

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

I'm having some trouble with my php contact form. Everything sends except the selected option in the question area.

HTML:

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<form action="php-contact-form.php" method="post">
     <p>Name:<br><input type="text" name="name"></p>
     <p>E-mail:<br><input type="text" name="email"></p>
     <p>Question:<br><select name="Question">
     <option value="Site Design">Site Design</option>
     <option value="Coding Your Mock-Up">Coding Your Mock-Up</option>
     <option value="Site Maintenance">Site Maintenance</option>
     <option value="Logo Design">Logo Design</option>
     <option value="Other">Other</option>
     </select></p>
     <p>Comments:<br><textarea name="comments" rows="6"    cols="35"></textarea></p>
     <p><input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
</form>

PHP:

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<?php
$subject = "New Email From PadraigCurran.com";
$your_email = "info@padraigcurran.com";
$success = "formdone.html";
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$question = $_POST["question"];
$comments = $_POST["comments"];
$msg = "Name: $name\n";
$msg.= "E-mail: $email\n";
$msg.= "question: $question\n";
$msg.= "Comments: $comments";
mail($your_email, $subject, $msg);
header("Location: $success");
?>

The contact form can be found at http://padraigcurran.com/contact

matelot · #2 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2007, 20:05

I'm just learning, so stand to be corrected. Your variable name under Select (HTML code) is "Question". Capital Q. All other references are lower case q.

In PHP that means they are two different variables. The capital Q wants altering to lower case.

Hope that helps.

Pádraig · #3 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2007, 21:03

It doesn't seem to have worked.

Marc · #4 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2007, 22:25

try:

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<?php
$subject = "New Email From PadraigCurran.com"; 
$your_email = "info@padraigcurran.com";
$success = "formdone.html"; 
$name = $_POST["name"];

$email = $_POST["email"];

$age = $_POST["Question"];

$comments = $_POST["comments"];

$msg = "Name: $name\n";

$msg.= "E-mail: $email\n";

$msg.= "Would Like: $Question\n";

$msg.= "Comments: $comments";

mail($your_email, $subject, $msg);
header("Location: $success");
?>

It may work but it may not!

ScottR · #5 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2007, 22:36

Unless someone has a better way and I'm sure they do. I believe you could list each list item in your email script and if it has been selected it will show the value you gave it (make sure you give each option a name). I know this works for radio buttons and check boxes. Might be worth a shot.

Good Luck,
Scott

c010depunkk · #6 (**permalink**) Jul 8th, 2007, 09:23

Here you go. This seems to work:

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<html>
<head>
<title>echo select value</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$subject = "New Email From PadraigCurran.com";
$your_email = "info@padraigcurran.com";
$msg = "Name: ".$_POST['name']."\n";
$msg.= "E-mail: ".$_POST['email']."\n";
$msg.= "question: ".$_POST['question']."\n";
$msg.= "Comments: ".$_POST['comments']."";
//mail($your_email, $subject, $msg);
echo("<p>".$msg."</p>");
?>

<form name="text" action="" method="post">
     <p>Name:<br><input type="text" name="name" /></p>
     <p>E-mail:<br><input type="text" name="email" /></p>
     <p>Question:<br><select name="question">
     <option value="Site Design">Site Design</option>
     <option value="Coding Your Mock-Up">Coding Your Mock-Up</option>
     <option value="Site Maintenance">Site Maintenance</option>
     <option value="Logo Design">Logo Design</option>
     <option value="Other">Other</option>
     </select></p>
     <p>Comments:<br><textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="35"></textarea></p>
     <p><input type="submit" action="submit" value="Send" /></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

I've never tested this thoroughly, but I think your problem is that PHP3&4 have the nasty habit of not keeping their variable maps for post / get / session / normal variables seperate. I've had the problem before that a session variable and a normal variable (ex: $_SESSION['bla'] and $bla) overwrite each other... Like I said, I'm not sure if that's true but I've had problems like this before.

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