IF Statement PHP form

I have a form that sends to an email I specify.

Ex:

However, I want to add a drop down that asks "Why are you contacting me today" and the fields will be different. And depending on which answer they choose it will send to that person. The easy way to do this is just put the email in the Value field. However, than I won't know which one they choose, when the recipient opens it.

Ex. Why Did You Contact us Today?
I was bored - (value=Jane@mydomain.com
Dog Ate My Homework - (Value=Mike@mydomain.com)
I Like pizza. - (Value=Jane@mydomain.com)

Now The issue is... When Jane gets the email she won't know whether the contact form is referencing "I was Bored" or "I Like Cheeseburgers"

Can I use a IF Statement inside a PHP form? How?

I tried...

Its not clear to me what you are really asking. In your script you have the index. Why can't you use that to assign the desired subject and recipient? It sounds like you can set up an array of subjects and recipients, and use the index from the drop down as the index on those arrays to create the email.

That sounds exactly like what I want to do. I just don't know how to get there. I want the recipient to change based on the drop down chosen. Can You please provide a brief example? Maybe a link if possible?

I don't have a specific example or link for you but I can explain what to do and you can post what you came up with if you are struggling with the details. Create 2 arrays, one containing the subject texts and the other the corresponding recipients. Generate your option tags using the array index as the value and the corresponding subject as the text. When the form is posted, the value of the select array in $_POST will be the desired index. Use that to set the subject and recipient from the arrays when you generate the email.

To the OP, your IF statement code was almost right .... please see my changes below which should make it work.



Another method would be with a SWITCH statement:-



The switch statement would allow you to have an extra, "default" option - just in case the user's selection was "none of the above" - you can see this in action with the "default" option shown in the example above.

I made the changes you suggested, I'm not getting an error page now, but the email is not coming through. This is the entire form...

mail( "$emailto","Contact Us Form",$message,"From: $email");

Again, just a few changes ...

mail($emailto, "Contact Us Form", $message, "From: {$email}");

Note I have removed the quotes around $emailto, they're not needed and I have enclosed the $email variable within curly brackets. You don't have to do this, you could also write it like:

mail($emailto, "Contact Us Form", $message, "From: " . $email);

(I added spaced just to make it easier to read)

If you make those changes and you're still not able to send/receive email, check that everything is being populated correctly (i.e. echo the variables to screen) and if they are, then check your logs (e.g. /var/log/apache2/error.log).


Oh, also, get rid of the line:-
$subj = $emailto;

and replace $_REQUEST with either $_GET or $_POST (depends on what your form uses, if you're not sure, use print_r($_GET) or print_r($_POST) somewhere in the script and use whichever one has data)

I just printed to screen and I get all the variables EXCEPT the $emailto

When you're performing the comparison you have to ensure that what you're checking against is exact.

For example,

"Value" is different to "value"

If you use the 'switch' code snippet I gave you earlier, does $emailto get set to "none_of_the_above@mydomain.com"?

If it does, check your checks!

I know. I didnt notice the last line about removing $subj = ... Im doing that now and testing.

That shouldn't really affect anything as you're setting it ....

$subj = $emailto;

Then in the next line(s), setting it to something else.

If $emailto is empty then the IF statements are either wrong (the string you're comparing it to may be different, even by a single character). Hence, if you use the switch statement instead, you have at least a "catch all" setting so if there's no exact match, at least $emailto will be set and should then send the email.

I did as you said and used the Switch Method. When I printed it to the screen all fields populate except the $emailto. The $subj field populates just fine. So we know that the value provided is valid. It just doesn't read it? I would check error logs, but I am in a shared hosting environment.

This is the section of the form

This is the PHP Form

You're assigning the variable AFTER doing a check:-



Should be:

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