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Problems with php form - want to use a dropdown to choose the department an email goes to
Hi
I've taken some code from another question on this site but it won't work for me. I am trying to create a contact form that sends an email to a specific department based on the dropdown option selected.
When I load the files onto my server and submit, all that happens is I get directed to the php page but no email comes through.
Please could you have a look at my code and see if I'm missing something or doing something wrong. Thanks in advance!
I've taken some code from another question on this site but it won't work for me. I am trying to create a contact form that sends an email to a specific department based on the dropdown option selected.
When I load the files onto my server and submit, all that happens is I get directed to the php page but no email comes through.
Please could you have a look at my code and see if I'm missing something or doing something wrong. Thanks in advance!
Heres the html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="my.css">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="feedback.php" method="post">
<div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="8" summary="feedback form">
<tr>
<td><div align="left"><font size="2" class="bodys">Your Name:</font></div></td>
<td><div align="left">
<input type="text" name="name" size="25" />
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="left"><font size="2" class="bodys">Email address:</font></div></td>
<td><div align="left">
<input type="text" name="email" size="25" />
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p align="left"><font size="2" class="bodys">Question or Request:</font><font size="1"><br /></font>
<textarea rows="8" cols="40" name="comments"></textarea>
</p> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div align="left">
<select name="dept">
<option>Logistics</option>
<option>HPI Queries</option>
<option>V5 Queries</option>
</select>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2"><div align="left">
<input type="submit" value="Send " />
<br />
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
and here's the php:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="my.css">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$question = $_POST["comments"];
$dept = $_POST["dept"];
if ($dept == "Logistics") $emailaddress="myemail1@gmail.com";
elseif ($dept == "HPI Queries") $emailaddress = "myemail2@gmail.com";
elseif ($dept == "V5 Queries") $emailaddress = "myemail3@googlemail.com";
else {exit;}
mail($email,"Webpage Comments",$question,"From: <myemail1@gmail.com>");
?>
</body>
</html>
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Just come up against one slight problem - I need to display the name and email fields in the emails that are sent as well. Adding the name and email tags like so - mail($dept, "Webpage Comments", $name,$email,$question, "From: $email"); seems to break the code. Any suggestions at all? Thanks
This question is closed so you should open a new one, but::: you have changed the number of arguments, don't. put it in the header at the end
mail($dept, "Webpage Comments", $question, "From: $email name $name");
mail($dept, "Webpage Comments", $question, "From: $email name $name");
ASKER
Sorry - I wasn't very clear there. I need the name and email of the person who sent the request to appear in the body of the email. This solution makes it appear in the address from line.
ASKER