PHP Contact Form

[rlineker]

I am making a contact form for my website and I am wondering how i can do this:

send people to contact.php?act=" " and that has a certain drop down selection selected.

Ryan

[OOP]

I did not understand what you are trying to do....would you please clarify more?

[Caesar]

Can you be a little more specific? Or maybe post some of your existing code. This forum isn't really for providing people with scripts but we can definitely try and point you in the right direction.

If you're not sure where to start, try looking at PHP's [url=http://us2.php.net/mail]mail()[/url] function.

[rlineker]

I have made a contact form. I want to be able to send people to a link for example  url.com/contact.php?act="posting" and url.com/contact.php?act="design". On the the contact page there is a drop down menu with the subject which are posting and design. I want it that when you have the act="posting"  posting is selected in the drop down box.

Ryan

[OOP]

there are so many ways to do that . One simple solution is that you can do some sort of check in your contact page...somthing like below

$option1 = '';
$option2 = '';
if($_GET['act'] == 'design'){
    $option1 = 'selected';
}
elseif($_GET['act'] == 'posting'){
    $option2 = 'selected';
}

then in your drop down list you can do this
echo '<select name="act">
            <option value="design"    $option1>design</option>
            <option value="posting"  $option2>posting</option>
        </select>';

[Caesar]

Or.....

[code]<?php

  $akshun = $_GET['act'];
  $select = '';

  $doptions = array('design', 'posting');

  echo"<select name=\"dropdown\">";

  foreach($doptions as $option) {

  if($option == $akshun){$select = 'selected';}

  echo"<option value=\"$option\" $select>$option";

  }

  echo"</select>";

?>[/code]

[The Little Guy]

[code]
<?php
$slected = $_GET['act'];  #get your var from the URL
$options = array('posting','contact','question'); #list of menu items
echo'<select name="dropdown">';
foreach($options as $option){
    echo'<option name="'.$option.'"'; if($option == $slected){echo' selected';} echo'>'.$option."</option>\n";
}
echo'</select>';
?>[/code]

[alpine]

*LOL* - this seems to be a competition  ;D

My favourite way:
[code]
<?php

$option = "";
$options = array("design","posting");
foreach ($options as $value)
{
  $_GET['act'] == $value ? $sel = " selected=\"selected\"" : $sel = "";
  $option .= "<option value=\"$value\"$sel>".ucfirst($value)."</option>";
}
echo <<<_SELECT

<select name="act">
$option
</select>

_SELECT;

?>
[/code]