email form possibility?

**DewKnight** · September 23rd, 2004, 9:49 PM

Ok well basically I want to have a form on my site whre one would use a dropdown list and pick either sales, technical, or general.... and depending on which one you selected from that list, it will email to a different email address the rest of the info that you submit through the form...

i didnt know if this was possible with maybe javascript... or php... or maybe if i would need a cgi script to do it... if i needed to use a cgi script i would want to protect the email addresses... and have it maybe send a variable or such to the script, and the script chooses which email to send it to... if somebody could let me know what i could do it in easiest.. and/or maybe give a little example of what i could do (like maybe if theres a script i can edit for myself somewhere....). well thanks in advance for any info...

**miakeru** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DewKnight

Ok well basically I want to have a form on my site whre one would use a dropdown list and pick either sales, technical, or general.... and depending on which one you selected from that list, it will email to a different email address the rest of the info that you submit through the form...

i didnt know if this was possible with maybe javascript... or php... or maybe if i would need a cgi script to do it... if i needed to use a cgi script i would want to protect the email addresses... and have it maybe send a variable or such to the script, and the script chooses which email to send it to... if somebody could let me know what i could do it in easiest.. and/or maybe give a little example of what i could do (like maybe if theres a script i can edit for myself somewhere....). well thanks in advance for any info...

Sure, you could do this with PHP.

Create the form as normal, but have it pass the values to another PHP file or other section in your current one.

I found a great tutorial here: http://www.christian-web-masters.com...il-form-2.html

Then basically write an 'if' statement to mail to a different address if the selected option equals one you have set in the code.

Something like:

PHP Code:


			
if ( $pulldown == "technical" ) {

mail (etc...)";

}

**spartas** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:03 PM

I'm used to using php, and actually it's pretty easy with php. If you want to hide the email addresses completely, you can store them in a database, along with their named counterparts (e.g. Technical, Sales, ...), and just pass these in the form.

It would look like this

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$emails = array('Sales', 'Technical', 'Billing'); //can be expanded



echo "<select name=\"emailAddress\">";



for($i=0; $i<sizeof($emails); $i++)

echo "<option value=\"$emails[$i]\" name=\"email\">$emails[$i]</option>";



echo "</select>";

?>

On your second page, the page the form loads after the submit button is pressed, you can view which one was selected with $_POST['email'];

**DewKnight** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:06 PM

ah i pretty much suck with php.... i could learn and probably figure it out... but if its hard i wont even bother hiding the email addresses...

**spartas** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:07 PM

It's really not that difficult. The email addresses would be protected with either miakeru's or my response. We're just watching out for spammers that collect email addresses from web page source code.

**DewKnight** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:16 PM

ah i cant understand php wirth **** right now... i have some books on it but its confusing as hell to me... though i program in C++.........

**spartas** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:18 PM

I've had much experience in C (not ++), as well as Java. I picked up PHP very easily, but the one thing that kept tripping me up was the dollar sign in front of the variables. I use dreamweaver on my dev machine (actually my only machine), which is convient for the syntax highlighting.

**miakeru** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spartas

I've had much experience in C. I picked up PHP very easily

Me too. It was quite an easy conversion.

**DewKnight** · September 23rd, 2004, 10:22 PM

ok i think im getting it now... em whats the html input type for a dropdown again?

September 23rd, 2004, 9:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,725 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	email form possibility? Ok well basically I want to have a form on my site whre one would use a dropdown list and pick either sales, technical, or general.... and depending on which one you selected from that list, it will email to a different email address the rest of the info that you submit through the form... i didnt know if this was possible with maybe javascript... or php... or maybe if i would need a cgi script to do it... if i needed to use a cgi script i would want to protect the email addresses... and have it maybe send a variable or such to the script, and the script chooses which email to send it to... if somebody could let me know what i could do it in easiest.. and/or maybe give a little example of what i could do (like maybe if theres a script i can edit for myself somewhere....). well thanks in advance for any info... __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

September 23rd, 2004, 10:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
spartas surmunity freak Comfy Contributor Joined in Sep 2004 Lives in Baton Rouge, LA, North Amewica, USA, Earth Hosted on D68; Serva; Pass15 143 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	I'm used to using php, and actually it's pretty easy with php. If you want to hide the email addresses completely, you can store them in a database, along with their named counterparts (e.g. Technical, Sales, ...), and just pass these in the form. It would look like this PHP Code: `<?php $emails = array('Sales', 'Technical', 'Billing'); //can be expanded echo "<select name=\"emailAddress\">"; for($i=0; $i<sizeof($emails); $i++) echo "<option value=\"$emails[$i]\" name=\"email\">$emails[$i]</option>"; echo "</select>"; ?>` On your second page, the page the form loads after the submit button is pressed, you can view which one was selected with $_POST['email']; __________________ Server: Pass15 twwright.net NoE Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2) I run ubuntu hoary!

September 23rd, 2004, 10:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,725 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	ah i pretty much suck with php.... i could learn and probably figure it out... but if its hard i wont even bother hiding the email addresses... __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

September 23rd, 2004, 10:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
spartas surmunity freak Comfy Contributor Joined in Sep 2004 Lives in Baton Rouge, LA, North Amewica, USA, Earth Hosted on D68; Serva; Pass15 143 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	It's really not that difficult. The email addresses would be protected with either miakeru's or my response. We're just watching out for spammers that collect email addresses from web page source code. __________________ Server: Pass15 twwright.net NoE Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2) I run ubuntu hoary!

September 23rd, 2004, 10:16 PM	#6 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,725 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	ah i cant understand php wirth **** right now... i have some books on it but its confusing as hell to me... though i program in C++......... __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

September 23rd, 2004, 10:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
spartas surmunity freak Comfy Contributor Joined in Sep 2004 Lives in Baton Rouge, LA, North Amewica, USA, Earth Hosted on D68; Serva; Pass15 143 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	I've had much experience in C (not ++), as well as Java. I picked up PHP very easily, but the one thing that kept tripping me up was the dollar sign in front of the variables. I use dreamweaver on my dev machine (actually my only machine), which is convient for the syntax highlighting. __________________ Server: Pass15 twwright.net NoE Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2) I run ubuntu hoary!

September 23rd, 2004, 10:22 PM	#9 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,725 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	ok i think im getting it now... em whats the html input type for a dropdown again? __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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