please help me with my form

[jojoroo56]

Hi,

I'm a huge newbie to all of this so I'm guessing the solution will be fairly simple, but I've been racking my brain for days now. I've tried everything and I just can't seem to figure this out. I've got a contact form and the send php written, but no matter what I do I can't get the information from the dropdown selection menu to populate in the email that is generated. Please take a look at the code and I'd sure appreciate any help you could offer!

Thanks!!!

 

On the contact form I have this at the top of the page:

 

<?php

$name_of_your_site = "MichaelVenske.com";

$email_adress_reciever = "[email protected]";

 

if(isset($_POST['Send']))

{

include('send.php');

}

?>

 

And then this for the actual form part:

 

 

<form action="" method="post" class="ajax_form">

<fieldset><?php if (!isset($error) || $error == true){ ?><legend><span>To Contact Michael Directly</span></legend>

 

<p class="<?php echo $the_nameclass; ?>" ><input name="yourname" class="text_input empty" type="text" id="name" size="20" value='<?php echo $the_name?>'/><label for="name">Your Name*</label>

</p>

<p class="<?php echo $the_emailclass; ?>" ><input name="email" class="text_input email" type="text" id="email" size="20" value='<?php echo $the_email?>' /><label for="email">E-Mail*</label></p>

<p><input name="website" class="text_input" type="text" id="website" size="20" value="<?php echo $the_website?>"/><label for="website">Website</label></p>

<p><input name="telephone" class="text_input" type="text" id="telephone" size="20" value="<?php echo $the_telephone?>"/><label for="telephone">Telephone</label></p>

<p><select name='selector'>

<option value="Actor - Independent Film">Actor - Independent Film</option>

<option value="Actor - Stage Play">Actor - Stage Play</option>

<option value="Actor - Student Film">Actor - Student Film</option>

<option value="Director - Sketch Comedy">Director - Sketch Comedy</option>

<option value="Director - Stage Play">Director - Stage Play</option>

<option value="Improviser">Improviser</option>

<option value="Other">Other</option>

<option value="Print Media">Print Media</option>

<option value="Teaching - Improvisation">Teaching - Improvisation</option>

<option value="Teaching - Writing Sketch Comedy">Teaching - Writing Sketch Comedy</option>

<option value="Writing - Sketch Comedy">Writing - Sketch Comedy</option>

<option selected="selected" value="choose">Select an Option</option>

</select>

<label for="selector">How can Michael contribute to your project?*</label>

</p>

<label for="message" class="blocklabel">Your Message*</label>

<p class="<?php echo $the_messageclass; ?>"><textarea name="message" class="text_area empty" cols="40" rows="7" id="message" ><?php echo $the_message ?></textarea></p>

 

 

<p>

<input type="hidden" id="myemail" name="myemail" value="<?php echo $email_adress_reciever; ?>" />

<input type="hidden" id="myblogname" name="myblogname" value="<?php echo $name_of_your_site; ?>" />

 

<input name="Send" type="submit" value="Send" class="button" id="send" size="16"/></p>

<?php } else { ?>

<p><h3>Your message has been sent!</h3> Thank you!</p>

 

<?php } ?>

</fieldset>

 

</form>

 

 

 

And then my PHP looks like this:

 

<?php

 

if(isset($_POST['Send'])){

 

$error = false;

 

$the_name = $_POST['yourname'];

$the_email = $_POST['email'];

$the_website = $_POST['website'];

$the_telephone = $_POST['telephone'];

$the_message = $_POST['message'];

$the_selector = $_POST['selector'];

 

 

if(!checkmymail($the_email))

{

$error = true;

$the_emailclass = "error";

}else{

$the_emailclass = "valid";

}

 

if($the_name == "")

{

$error = true;

$the_nameclass = "error";

}else{

$the_nameclass = "valid";

}

 

 

if($the_message == "")

{

$error = true;

$the_messageclass = "error";

}else{

$the_messageclass = "valid";

}

 

if($error == false)

{

$to      =  $_POST['myemail'];

$subject = "New Message from " . $_POST['myblogname'];

$header  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

$header .= 'From:'. $_POST['email']  . " \r\n";

 

$message1 = nl2br($_POST['message']);

 

 

$message = "New message from  $the_name <br/>

Mail: $the_email <br />

Website: $the_website <br />

                  Telephone: $the_telephone <br />

                  How can Michael contribute to your project?: $the_selector <br />

Message: $message1<br />";

 

 

mail($to,

$subject,

$message,

$header);

 

if(isset($_POST['ajax'])){

echo"<h3>Your message has been sent!</h3><p> Thank you!</p>";

}

}

 

}

 

 

function checkmymail($mailadresse){

$email_flag=preg_match("!^\w[\w|\.|\-]+@\w[\w|\.|\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$!",$mailadresse);

return $email_flag;

}

 

 

?>

[cags]

Do you just get a blank space where you expect the value or do you get something different to what you expect?

[jojoroo56]

I get a blank space. All the other values show up, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.