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johnatcollege

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Basically, I really haven't a clue when it comes to php but I've managed to fudge together this mailer (from other stuff) but can't get the multiple check boxes to work.

Can anyone help? Please.

 

Here's the html page/code

 

<!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=iso-8859-1" />

<title>None</title>

</head>

 

<body>

<div id="main">

 

<h1>Your constructive comments please </h1>

 

<p>Many thanks for taking the time to read this handbook. I hope you  found it informative and a useful introduction to the college and a useful  reference document.</p>

 

<p>If there is additional important information which you feel should  be included within the next version of the Handbook, I would very much welcome  any constructive comments you wish to make. Your input is very much  appreciated.</p>

 

<form action="mailer.php" method="post">

<p><span class="bold">Please indicate those sections you found most helpful and give details below:</span></p>

1

<input type="checkbox" name="Mosthelpfulsections[]" value="1" />

2

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="2" />

3

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="3" />

4

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="4" />

5

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="5" />

6

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="6" />

7

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="7" />

8

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="8" />

9

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="9" />

10

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="10" />

11

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="11" />

12

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="12" />

13

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" value="13" />

<br />

<p><span class="bold">Please indicate those sections you found least helpful and give details below:</span></p>

 

1

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="1" />

2

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="2" />

3

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="3" />

4

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="4" />

5

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="5" />

6

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="6" />

7

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="7" />

8

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="8" />

9

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="9" />

10

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="10" />

11

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="11" />

12

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="12" />

13

<input type="checkbox" name="Least helpful sections[]" value="13" />

 

<p><span class="bold">Remarks as above and any additional information you would have liked or <br />

any other improvement comments?</span>

 

<br />

<textarea name="Comments" cols="60" rows="10"></textarea>

</p>

<p><span class="bold">Your Name:</span><br />

<input type="text" name="name" />

</p>

<p><span class="bold">Date</span><br />

<input type=

"text" name="date" />

</p>

<input type="submit" value="submit">

</form>

</div>

 

</body>

</html>

 

Now here's the php. I've tried a number of things but can't seem to get the results I'm looking for. The most common thing that would happen would be that it would only display the results from one box.

 

<?php

$FIELDS  = array('name', 'date', 'Comments', 'Most helpful sections', 'Least helpful sections');

$EMAILS  = array('[email protected]');

$thankyouurl = "sent.html" ;

 

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST') {

die();

}

 

$out = array();

foreach ($FIELDS as $f) {

    $out[$f] = $_REQUEST[$f];

}

 

 

 

if (count($EMAILS) > 0) {

 

  $msg = '';

  foreach ($out as $k => $v) {

    $msg .= ucfirst($k) . ":\n";

    $msg .= $v . "\n\n";

  }

 

  foreach ($EMAILS as $e) {

      mail($e, "Mail from Staff Induction Handbook", $msg, "From: Online_Staff_Induction");

  }

 

}

header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );

?>

 

If I were to only check boxes 1 and 2 in the 'Most helpful section' this is how I'd like the e-mail to look:

 

Name:

John Maguire

 

Date:

30 July 2008

 

Comments:

It's rubbish :P

 

Most helpful sections:

1, 2

 

Least helpful sections:

 

If anyone can help I'd just like to thank you in advance.

discomatt Member

discomatt

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Change all instances of

 

<input type="checkbox" name="Most helpful sections[]" ... />

 

to

 

<input type="checkbox" name="Mosthelpfulsections[]" ... />

 

Then use implode( ', ', $_POST['Mosthelpfulsections'] ); to convert the array of selected values to a comma separated string :D

johnatcollege Newbie

johnatcollege

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I'm really not familliar with php but I tried what you suggested and in resulting e-mail it now says Array where the numbers should be.

Maybe I'm not putting the implode line in the right place? ???

 

The php I've got was taken from a mates project but he got someone else to do that and hasn't a clue how to sort this.

discomatt Member

discomatt

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Only because I'm in a good mood ;)

 

Change

  foreach ($out as $k => $v) {
    $msg .= ucfirst($k) . ":\n";
    $msg .= $v . "\n\n";
  }

 

to

 

  foreach ($out as $k => $v) {	
    $msg .= ucfirst($k) . ":\n";
    if ( is_array($v) )
    	$msg .= implode( ', ', $v ) . "\n\n";
    else
    	$msg .= $v . "\n\n";
  }

 

Give that a shot :)

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