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[ChompGator]

Hey,

 

I have a fairly simple script that allows users to fill in their email, then the message then submit the form and it submits to an email address...What Ive added now is a drop down menu that allows users to select which department they want their email to go to. Iam unsure how to code the sendmail.php (the script that actually sends the email)

 

<?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

  mail( "[email protected]", "REQUEST",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://www.mysite.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

 

That is just how it appears now, Im trying to configure it for the drop down I added, Ill be re-searching this but any help would be great.

[MFHJoe]

Use the HTML:

<select name="department">
<option value="Sales">Sales</option>
<option value="Marketing">Marketing</option>
<option value="Support">Support</option>
</select>

 

Then add to your PHP something like:

 

<?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
  $department = $_REQUEST['department'];

  if($department == 'Sales')
  {
$sendto = '[email protected]';
  }
  elseif($department == 'Marketing')
  {
$sendto = '[email protected]';
  }
  elseif($department == 'Support')
  {
$sendto = '[email protected]';
  }

  mail( $sendto, "REQUEST",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://www.mysite.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

[.josh]

Instead of that big condition statement that you will have to keep adding to as departments are added, just do this:

$department = $_REQUEST['department'];
$allowed = array('sales','marketing','support'); // add more departments here
// change [email protected] to default email address
$sendto = (in_array($department, $allowed))? $department . "@yoursite.com" : "[email protected]";

[ChompGator]

Thanks both of you for the code's.

 

I appreciate the help...

[ChompGator]

One last question (sorry!)

 

When a user selects a department and fills out his message and then clicks 'submit' if I want to submit the email (only for that specific department) to three email addresses would I do this:

 

$sendto = '[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]';

 

or

 

$sendto = '[email protected]' '[email protected]' '[email protected]';

 

I tried both ways and it doesn't seem to be submitting to any of the three email addresses

[Nhoj]

The first option would be best, although I think you may need to use a comma instead of a semicolon to separate the addresses.

[ChompGator]

Thank you sir!