Send email to address based on text choice

[blepblep]

Hi, wondering could anyone help me here again. I have been asked to implement a email feature depending on a selection. I've seen plenty of examples online about doing it from a drop down, but I need to do it without a drop down menu.

 

The user has 9 forms to choose from. Each of these forms has a name, say TC CNOSS, TC OSS RC etc for example (These forms are selected from a drop down menu but this drop down menu is not populated from the database, it is hard coded). When the user fills in a form, they get an ID which they enter to a search menu. This returns the form they filled in, but with a small bit of extra information needing to be filled in. After they fill in this extra bit of information, I have a button that says 'Send to X for approval'. This button goes to another page which performs the below code -

 

Now the part I am stuck at is, how do I send an email to say TC CNOSS if the user is filling in a form of TC CNOSS? I just want the email to say 'TC Number 10 needs to be approved' and then include a link to my site.

 

<?php

$reviewForum = $post['reviewForum'];

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if ($post['reviewForum'] = 'TC CNOSS') {

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('testemail@test.com', 'My Subject', $message);

}
}
?>

 

Thanks to anyone who can help, if there is any more info needed just ask.

[Zephni]

Not quite sure what your looking to do here, but the first thing I noticed in the code was that there was only one '=' sign meaning the if statement is always true. Also why did you set the variable of the post value and then use the post variable in the if statement?

[blepblep]

What I want to do is to send an email to an address based on a forum. There is 9 forums to choose from in a drop down menu but these are hard coded in. Sorry I shouldn't have set the variable of the post outside the if statement. My bad sorry!

 

I dont no how I can send an email based on a certain form that the user selects.

[blepblep]

This was the original idea I had in my head as to how I was going to code it but it doesnt work -

 

$email_location = $_POST['location']; // the value from your form

if($email_location == "Atlanta") { // a form value and a location
    $your_email = "atlanta@email.com"; // the email for that location
} else if ($email_location == "Colorado") {
    $your_email = "colorado@email.com";
} else if ($email_location == "Virginia") {
    $your_email = "virginia@email.com";
} else if ($email_location == "Kansas City") {
    $your_email = "kansas@email.com";
} else { // if no one is good, send it to this email
    $your_email = "standard@email.com";
}

[cyberRobot]

What does your form code look like?

[blepblep]

What does your form code look like?

 

It is incredibly messy, the first half of it was coded by myself and the second by someone else. Heres a snippet of mine with the code getting the reviewForum. The reviewForum is what I want to send the email to, so instead of having a drop down menu that contains the 9 forums, I just want to have some sort of condition that checks if it is TC CNOSS send an email to tcnoss@email.com, if it is TC TOR send an email to tctor@email.com etc etc.. Is this possible do you think?

 

<tr>
	<th>Review Forum</th>

</tr>		
	<td>"	.	custOut($row['reviewForum'])	.	"</td>

 

 

My button code -

<td>
<form id='sendEmail' action = \"sendMomEmail.php\" method = \"post\">
	<input type = \"submit\" value = \"Send email for approval\" style='display:inline;' onclick =\"sendMomEmail.php\">
</form>	
</td>

[cyberRobot]

Instead of forms, could you links?

 

<tr><th>Review Forum</th><th>Review ID</th><th>Send E-mail</th></tr>
<tr><td>TC CNOSS</td><td>TC19</td><td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=TCCNOSS">Send e-mail to TC CNOSS</a></td></tr>

 

 

The links could be processed with a switch():

 

<?php
switch($_GET['sendemail']) {
case 'TCCNOSS':
	$toEmail = 'TCCNOSS@test.com';
	break;
}

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

mail($toEmail, 'My Subject', $message);
?>

[blepblep]

Instead of forms, could you links?

 

<tr><th>Review Forum</th><th>Review ID</th><th>Send E-mail</th></tr>
<tr><td>TC CNOSS</td><td>TC19</td><td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=TCCNOSS">Send e-mail to TC CNOSS</a></td></tr>

 

 

The links could be processed with a switch():

 

<?php
switch($_GET['sendemail']) {
case 'TCCNOSS':
	$toEmail = 'TCCNOSS@test.com';
	break;
}

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

mail($toEmail, 'My Subject', $message);
?>

 

I can't use links like that. The Review Forum and Review ID I posted in the screenshot from search result so they are different each time.

 

Could you explain this to me please -

 

<td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=TCCNOSS">Send e-mail to TC CNOSS</a></td></tr>

 

How will the above work if it is a different forum to TC CNOSS? As there is 9 possible ones and I don't no how that would work with the

sendemail = TCCNOSS

part?

 

These are the different forums - TC CNOSS, TC PM, TC OSS RC, TC Arch Board,  TC TOR, TC PF, TC WRAN, TC GRAN, TC Navigator.  I am wondering how could I do it the way you described but instead of naming the link TC CNOSS as this could be different depending on what Review Forum it is..

[cyberRobot]

Basically, you would create however many links you would need:

 

<tr><th>Review Forum</th><th>Review ID</th><th>Send E-mail</th></tr>
<tr><td>Forum 1</td><td>...</td><td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=forum1">Send e-mail to Forum 1</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Forum 2</td><td>...</td><td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=forum2">Send e-mail to Forum 2</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Forum 3</td><td>...</td><td><a href="sendMomEmail.php?sendemail=forum3">Send e-mail to Forum 3</a></td></tr>

 

 

Note that the "Send e-mail to Forum 1" could say anything you want. It could also be an image that looks like a button.

 

 

Here is one way to process the above links:

 

<?php
switch($_GET['sendemail']) {
case 'forum1':
	$toEmail = 'email1@test.com';
	break;
case 'forum2':
	$toEmail = 'email2@test.com';
	break;
case 'forum3':
	$toEmail = 'email3@test.com';
	break;
}

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

mail($toEmail, 'My Subject', $message);
?>

[blepblep]

Ahhh ok, I see what you mean. Thanks for that. Is there a way I can do it like this?

 

 

And then, depending on what is selected, send an email to that address?

 

Am I wrong in saying how you have it done for me, it will display 3 links that I can click on each time, so instead of just showing one link it will show however many is created?

[cyberRobot]

The code is pretty much the same, you're just dealing with a POST variable versus GET. For a drop down that looks like the following:

 

<form method="post" action="sendMomEmail.php">
<select name="selectDept">
<option value="">Please Choose Dept.</option>
<option value="TC OSS RC">TC OSS RC</option>
<option value="TC OSS Arch Board">TC OSS Arch Board</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Send email for approval">
</form>

 

 

The switch() could be modified to

 

<?php
switch($_POST['selectDept']) {
case 'TC OSS RC':
	$toEmail = 'TCOSSRC@test.com';
	break;
case 'TC OSS Arch Board':
	$toEmail = 'TCOSSArchBoard@test.com';
	break;
}

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

mail($toEmail, 'My Subject', $message);
?>

[cyberRobot]

Am I wrong in saying how you have it done for me, it will display 3 links that I can click on each time, so instead of just showing one link it will show however many is created?

 

That is correct. The link version of the code will show 3 links (or however many links are created).