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juddster, that did it. Thanks... so it was my syntax? I just use my other syntax on another site to do a "if this is empty, put this in it" statement and I swear it worked. lol Ah well... I'm good to go now in any case. Thanks a lot everyone.

I have a really simple e-mail form that I made a while ago. I'm trying to make a simple modification, but I'm getting a a logical error somewhere. The problem is with the one optional variable ($wholesale) that gets sent to the PHP script. If the user has clicked the box on the form and the $wholesale variable has something in it, the message gets sent without an error. But if the user leaves the box blank, nothing is in the variable and PHP has a problem with that. It'll still send the e-mail, but I get a Notice: Undefined index: wholesale in /file/path/on our/sever.com/send_form_email.php on line 35 error. Here's a part of the code: // validation expected data exists if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) || !isset($_POST['last_name']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['street_address']) || !isset($_POST['city']) || !isset($_POST['state']) || !isset($_POST['zip']) || !isset($_POST['phone'])) { died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted.'); } $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required $street_address = $_POST['street_address']; // required $city = $_POST['city']; // required $state = $_POST['state']; // required $zip = $_POST['zip']; // required $phone = $_POST['phone']; // required $wholesale = $_POST['wholesale']; // not required // I don't see why this isn't solving the problem if ( $_POST['wholesale'] == null ) { $wholesale = "."; } ... then the code formats and sends the e-mail out. Any help would be awesome... this is such a simple thing that I honestly can't think of what else to try...

Cool. Thanks a lot for the help, guys. Now it throws: Notice: Undefined variable: infopackage in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 82 Notice: Undefined variable: wholesale in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 82 Notice: Undefined variable: monthlyspecial in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 82 Notice: Undefined variable: couponcode in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 82 Line 82 is this: $email_message .= $infopackage."\n\n".$wholesale."\n\n".$monthlyspecial."\n\n".$couponcode; Same deal though, if the box is checked then the error doesn't list that variable, but even so I'm still receiving the e-mail that the form sends.

Good question. Yes, I didn't have that before, but got this: "Notice: Undefined index: infopackage in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 36 Notice: Undefined index: monthlyspecial in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 38 Notice: Undefined index: couponcode in /home/wolfeclinic2/www/thewolfeclinic.com/send_form_email.php on line 39 Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon." The lines are here: $infopackage = $_POST['infopackage']; // not required $wholesale = $_POST['wholesale']; // not required <------ (I had this box checked that time, so that line didn't throw an error) $monthlyspecial = $_POST['monthlyspecial']; // not required $couponcode = $_POST['couponcode']; // not required So I figured the if..then statement was required even for the non-essential variables. Of course, this seems to be a step in the right direction. I got the e-mail.

Yes, you're right... those are the checkboxes, and it displays: "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form your submitted. These errors appear below. We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted. Please go back and fix these errors." When not all the boxes are checked.

No, it's not throwing an error. It displays by error handling messages, but no errors even though I've got this to list them: echo $error."<br /><br />"; But the fact that checking all the boxes make the code work correctly leads me to believe that the code is expecting those variables to have something in them when in real use they may and may not.

An entire weekend and no replies? Is this problem harder than I thought...?

Hi guys. I'm really rusty with PHP, and I've spent my day today trying to work up a fairly simple e-mail form using PHP. I've got the form working except for four check boxes, which I need to be optional unlike the rest of the form which is required, but I can't quite get it right. When i fill out the form and check all four of the boxes, than the code works as it should and sends an e-mail to me. If I'm missing one or more of the boxes, though, the code dies somewhere before the main error handling section. So evidently the PHP is expecting the checkbox variables to contain something, even though I want it to be optional, and it throws an error. I'm not familiar enough with PHP syntax and functions to know what to do. Here it is (This is probably obvious, but as you can see I've put the PHP on a separate page and just include it on the form itself. If you need to see the form's HTML, I can include it but I didn't think it would be needed): <?php if(isset($_POST['email'])) { $email_to = "[email protected]"; $email_subject = "Request for Information"; function died($error) { // your error code can go here echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form your submitted. "; echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />"; echo $error."<br /><br />"; echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />"; die(); } // validation expected data exists if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) || !isset($_POST['last_name']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['street_address']) || !isset($_POST['city']) || !isset($_POST['zip']) || !isset($_POST['infopackage']) || !isset($_POST['wholesale']) || !isset($_POST['monthlyspecial']) || !isset($_POST['couponcode'])) { died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted.'); } $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required $street_address = $_POST['street_address']; // required $city = $_POST['city']; // required $zip = $_POST['zip']; // required $infopackage = $_POST['infopackage']; // not required $wholesale = $_POST['wholesale']; // not required $monthlyspecial = $_POST['monthlyspecial']; // not required $couponcode = $_POST['couponcode']; // not required $error_message = ""; $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$"; if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) { $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; } $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$"; if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) { $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; } if(!eregi($string_exp,$last_name)) { $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; } if(!eregi($string_exp,$street_address)) { $error_message .= 'The Street Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; } if(!eregi($string_exp,$city)) { $error_message .= 'The City you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; } if(strlen($zip) < 5) { $error_message .= 'The Zip Code you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />'; } if(strlen($error_message) > 0) { died($error_message); } $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n"; function clean_string($string) { $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); return str_replace($bad,"",$string); } $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n"; $email_message .= "Street Address: ".clean_string($street_address)."\n"; $email_message .= "City: ".clean_string($city)."\n\n"; $email_message .= "I would like to receive: "."\n"; $email_message .= $infopackage."\n".$wholesale."\n".$monthlyspecial."\n".$couponcode; // create email headers $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n". 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); ?> <!-- include your own success html here --> Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon. <? } ?> Any help would be awesome. Thanks!