Newbie - using headers

[JoeLongstreet]

I'm trying to use this little piece of code to direct a user to another page on the site.  If they select a specific dropdown they should go to one section and if they select a different dropdown, they should go to another.  From my feeble understanding of php I think this should work.  Why doesn't it?

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "New Download requested from JenningsPR.net";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$company_field = $_POST['company'];
$dropdown  =  $_POST['drop_down']; 
$body = "Download Requested: $dropdown\n Name: $name_field\n Company: $company_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n";
mail($to, $subject, $body);
if ($dropdown == metro) {
	header('Location: http://testing.jenningspr.net/downloads/metro.html');
}
else if($dropdown == fittyWest) {
	header('Location: http://www.jenningspr.net/downloads/fiftyWest.html');
}
else if($dropdown == heartland) {
	header('Location: http://www.jenningspr.net/downloads/heartland.html');
}
else if($dropdown == kcdma) {
	header('Location: http://www.jenningspr.net/downloads/kcdma.html');
}
} else {

echo "blarg!";

}
?>

 

<fieldset>
<legend>Download a Case Study</legend>
<form action="caseStudies.php" method="POST">
<table cellspacing="10">
<tr>
<td>Case Study:</td>
<td>
  <select name="drop_down">
    <option name="metro">Metropolitan</option>
    <option name="fittyWest">50West</option>
    <option name="heartland">HeartlandCremation</option>
    <option name="kcdma">KCDMA</option>
  </select>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Name:</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" size="33"/></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Email:</td>
<td><input name="email" type="text" size="33"/></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Company:</td>
<td><input name="comapny" type="text" size="33"/></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td></td>
<td><input name="submit" value="Submit" type="submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</fieldset>

[Porl123]

<option name="metro">Metropolitan</option>

 

Should be

 

<option value="metro">Metropolitan</option>

[DarkWater]

Also, use quotation marks (" ") around strings when testing them in PHP.

if ($dropdown == "metro") {

[JoeLongstreet]

Great.  Thank you for your help.  I appreciate it,

 

Joe

[haku]

Also, use quotation marks (" ") around strings when testing them in PHP.

 

Single quotes are fine. And actually, to get a little technical, single quotes will process faster than double quotes. The reason being that text in double quotes is parsed for variables inside, and text in single quotes is not. Although when it comes down to it, this difference is so marginal as to not even really matter (when outputting a string 400 000 times using each method, the difference was only 5 seconds).