Checkboxes and Email

ernielou · June 7, 2009

Hi, I am very new to posting on a forum like this, i am also very very new to learning php and am not a great programmer (i am still at college). However I have tried PHP and much prefer it to ASP much to the dismay (i have no idea why) of my lecturer, so asking him for help is a no go, which leads me here, I cannot bear having to admit to him i couldnt do it!

I am trying to design a form that sends the results to an email. This works fine except for the checkboxes, i just need them to return something to imply they have been checked. I understand this seems to be a regular problem and have tried a few things from googling it, but i am not very good at amending code from another problem (i have found lots to do with databases) to fit my problem and i havent found anything specific enough. I have left in a few things i have tried, commented out, that havent worked, but these efforts may be met by howls of derision

The code i am posting is test code for it, with 1 set of checkboxes, the actual form is huge (to me) and has 2 sets of checkboxes the second set being about 26 items, the whole form has about 56 items, so I have tried to cut down the code to just the 1 set, but if something looks a bit odd it may be where i have butchered the code.

html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>VCACD</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/stylesheet.css" />


</head>
<body>

<form id="form1" method="POST"   action="memberTest.php"><br/><p align="left"><label><strong>Organisation Name:</strong></label>
        <br />
<input name="organisation" type="text" id="organisation" size="60" /></p>

      <p align="left">
        <label><strong>Email:</strong><br />
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="60" />
        </label>
      </p>

<input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup3[]" value="Newsletter"  />
    Would like Quarterly Newsletter</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup3[]" value="email"  />
          Would like Email Bulletin</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup3[]" value="directory"  />
          Entered on VCACD Directory</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup3[]" value="mail"  />
          Other correspondance through Mail</label>
      </p>

          <input type="submit" name="Submit2" id="Submit2" value="Submit" />

    </form>
  </div>

</div>
</div>
</body>

</html>

<?php

$to = "[email protected]" ;

$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$organisation = $_REQUEST['organisation'] ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$subject = "Membership Request"; 

$fields = array();

$fields{"organisation"} = "Organisation";

$fields{"email"} = "Email";

$fields{"CheckboxGroup3"} = "Quarterly Newsletter";
$fields{"CheckboxGroup3"} = "Email Bulletin";
$fields{"CheckboxGroup3"} = "VCACD Directory";
$fields{"CheckboxGroup3"} = "Mail";


//$fields{"radio"} = "test";

//if (isset($_POST['Submit2'])) {
//        $CheckboxGroup3 = $_POST["CheckboxGroup3"];
//   $how_many = count($CheckboxGroup3);
//        echo 'Categories chosen: '.$how_many.'<br><br>';
//        if ($how_many>0) {
//                echo 'You chose the following categories:<br>';
//        }
//        for ($i=0; $i<$how_many; $i++) {
//                echo  ($i+1) . '- ' . $CheckboxGroup3[$i] . '<br>';
//        }
//      echo "<br><br>";
//} 




$body = "We have received the following information:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){ $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); } 

//$CheckboxGroup3=$_POST['CheckboxGroup3'];
//foreach ($CheckboxGroup3 as $CHECKED)
//{
//echo "$CHECKED is checked";
//}





$headers2 = "From: [email protected]";
$subject2 = "Thank you for contacting us";
$autoreply = "Thank you for contacting us. We will add your organisation to our members. If you have any more questions, do not hesitiate to contact us";


$send = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
$send2 = mail($from, $subject2, $autoreply, $headers2);
if($send)
{print " thank you for your email";}
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail, please notify [email protected]"; }

?>

Thank you, any help would be much appreciated,

Helen

phpdragon · June 7, 2009

assign all the check boxes different names then simply refer to them as posted variables and check for them

eg

<input type="checkbox" name=newsletter" value="Newsletter"  />
    Would like Quarterly Newsletter</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="email" value="email"  />
          Would like Email Bulletin</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="directory" value="directory"  />
          Entered on VCACD Directory</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="mail" value="mail"  />

then on your processor page

if (isset($_POST['Newsletter'])) $newsletter="Quarterly Newsletter";[
if (isset($_POST['email'])) $email="Email Bulletin";
if (isset($_POST['directory'])) $directory="VCACD Directory";
if (isset($_POST['mail'])) $mail="Mail";/code]

these variables are then available for your use in the email

Ken2k7 · June 7, 2009

When you did $_POST['CheckboxGroup3'], you got an array of values of the selected checkboxes right? Well, then loop through them and process each one. I think you had that in your commented block.

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