Select & checkbox values don’t show up in submitted form

[ThatGuyRay]

Pulling my hair out trying to get checkbox and a selector values into my email.

The only email results I recieve are: Name/Email/Website/Message

 

I dont know what Im missing to get the Checkbox values submitted.

Ive included a link and attached the files for reference.

http://iinobe.com/formTest/contact.html

 

Any insight, assistance or resources that would help solve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ray

 

 

BASIC CODE:

 

<input type="checkbox" id="b1" name="vehicle[]" value="Bike">I have a bike<br>

<input type="checkbox" id="b1" name="vehicle[]" value="Car">I have a car 

<input type="checkbox" id="b1" name="vehicle[]" value="Walk">I walk 

 

<select  id="choose">

 <option>1</option>

 <option>2</option>

 <option>3</option>

</select>

 

 

My additions to PHP:

$b1 = implode(', ', $_POST['b1'] );

$choose = $_POST['choose'];

 

\n\nType: $b1

\n\nChoice: $choose

 

 

 

[benanamen]

What makes you think ID's are in the POST array? The checkbox array is vehicle and the Select is missing the name attribute so nothing from that will be in the POST array.

Edited March 24, 2017 by benanamen

[Psycho]

To add to benanamen's response, it is not valid HTML markup to have multiple elements with the same id as you have with the checkboxes. The id for each element must be unique.

 

 

<select  id="choose" name="choose">

 

 

$vehicles = implode(', ', $_POST['vehicles'] );
$choose = $_POST['choose'];

[ThatGuyRay]

Thanks for the response.

I am a definitely a novice.

 

Im using a pre-existing form from a template and the template developer made the following suggestion:

"  Give unique ids to the inputs and use the ids on global variable (for ex. $_POST['your_id']).  "

 

 

Ive made the id edits as suggested, but still no results in email:

 

<input type="checkbox" id="b1" name="vehicle[]" value="Bike">I have a bike<br>

<input type="checkbox" id="b2" name="vehicle[]" value="Car">I have a car 

<input type="checkbox" id="b3" name="vehicle[]" value="Walk">I walk 

 

<select class="form-control" name="choose" id="choose">

 <option>1</option>

 <option>2</option>

 <option>3</option>

</select>

 

 

PHP:

 

<?php

 

if(empty($_POST['name'])   ||

   empty($_POST['email']) ||

   empty($_POST['message']) ||

   !filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))

   {

echo "No arguments Provided!";

return false;

   }

 

 

$vehicles = implode(', ', $_POST['vehicles'] );

$choose = $_POST['choose'];

 

$name = $_POST['name'];

$email_address = $_POST['email'];

$website = $_POST['website'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

 

// Create the email and send the message

$to = 'biz@iinobe.com'; // Add your email address inbetween the '' replacing yourname@yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.

$email_subject = "Website Contact Form:  $name";

$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.

 

\n\n"."Here are the details:

\n\nName: $name

\n\nType: $vehicles

\n\nChoice: $choose

\n\nEmail: $email_address

\n\nWebsite: $website

\n\nMessage:\n$message";

 

 

$headers = "From: noreply@gmail.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply@yourdomain.com.

$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);

return true;

?>

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your help.

[ginerjm]

If you turned on php error checking you might see why.

 

It is 'vehicle', not 'vehicles'.

[Jacques1]

“vehicles” isn't the same as “vehicle”. Yes, you have to be exact.

 

In any case, it's time for you to learn basic debugging steps.

• Forget about the e-mails. Right now, you cannot even assemble the message correctly, so it's nonsensical to add complex mail sending logic which may introduce even more errors. Remove the mail() call for now.
• Learn how to inspect variables with var_dump(). For example, var_dump($_POST) will tell you exactly what the $_POST array contains (and what it doesn't contain).
• When you're more experienced, check out professional debuggers like XDebug. This will save you a lot of time.

[benanamen]

You STILL have not added any VALUES to your Select.

[ThatGuyRay]

Thanks.

I have actually updated the code - but no results:

 

<input type="checkbox" id="b1" name="vehicle[]" value="Bike">I have a bike<br>

<input type="checkbox" id="b2" name="vehicle[]" value="Car">I have a car 

<input type="checkbox" id="b3" name="vehicle[]" value="Walk">I walk 

 

<select class="form-control" name="choose" id="choose" form="sentMessage">

 <option value="uno">1</option>

 <option value="dos">2</option>

 <option value="tres">3</option>

</select>

 

 

This may be over my head at this point.

Thanks for your help.

[ginerjm]

Stop showing us tidbits of your code.

 

Show us the WHOLE FORM and then show us the logic that is grabbing the inputs and how you are displaying the results.

[Jacques1]

Reading the replies also helps. As I've already told you, programming by trial-and-error doesn't work. Remove the parts which aren't relevant for the problem (like the mail stuff), learn how to use var_dump() and then analyze the problem systematically.