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I am having trouble adding a state list and toggle fields to my email form.

Please help.

I need a dropdown of states for the field US States 

I need a toggle with three choices for field Condition below the field

I need a toggle with 4 choices for field Title below the field

 

Here is a link to a picture of what I want to achieve.

www.macroarts.com/filedemo/formimage.html

 

Here is the code.  All other fields work. No problem.

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF">
    
    <form name="contactformfree" method="post" action="free_process.php" onsubmit="return validate.check(this)">
    <table width="100px" class="cffree">
    <tr>
     <td colspan="2">
      <p style="text-align:center">Fields marked with <span class="required_star"> * </span> are required.</p>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="First_Name" class="required">First Name<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="First_Name" id="First_Name" maxlength="80" style="width:50px">
     </td>
    
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Last_Name" class="required">Last Name<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Last_Name" id="Last_Name" maxlength="80" style="width:50px">
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Email_Address" class="required">Email<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Email_Address" id="Email_Address" maxlength="100" style="width:50px">
     </td>
    
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Telephone_Number" class="required">Phone<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>      
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Telephone_Number" id="Telephone_Number" maxlength="100" style="width:50px">
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="City" class="not-required">City</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="City" id="City" maxlength="100" style="width:22px">
     </td>
    
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="US_States" class="not-required">US States</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="US_States" id="US_States" maxlength="100" style="width:22px">
     </td>

    
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Zip" class="not-required">Zip</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Zip" id="Zip" maxlength="100" style="width:28px">
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Year" class="required">Year<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>      
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Year" id="Year" maxlength="100" style="width:33px">
     </td>
    
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Make" class="required">Make<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>      
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Make" id="Make" maxlength="100" style="width:33px">
     </td>
     
          <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Model" class="required">Model<span class="required_star"> * </span></label>      
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Model" id="Model" maxlength="100" style="width:33px">
     </td>
     
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Millage" class="not-required">Millage</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Millage" id="Millage" maxlength="100" style="width:24px">
     </td>

     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Condition" class="not-required">Condition</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Condition" id="Condition" maxlength="100" style="width:31px">
     </td>

     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <label for="Title" class="not-required">Title</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <input type="text" name="Title" id="Title" maxlength="100" style="width:20px">
     </td>

    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
            <label for="Additional_Information" class="not-required">Additional Information</label>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" class="cffree_td">
      <textarea style="width:250px;height:120px" name="Additional_Information" id="Additional_Information" maxlength="2000" style="width:50px" ></textarea>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"  class="cffree_td">
      <input type="submit" value=" Submit Form ">
      <br /><br />

      <br /><br />
     </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>

 

 

Since you haven't done anything here's a little something that was easy to produce:

//  Open a text file of state names
//  format of file is simply a state name on each line.
$input_name = 'pathtotextfileofstates';
if(!$states_file = fopen($input_name, 'r'))
{
	echo "Could not open input states file '$input_name'<br>";
	exit();
}
//  read in the state names
$arr = array();	// array to save names in for sorting and processing
while($line = fgets($states_file,30))
{
	$arr[] = $line;
}
// put names into alphabetical order
sort($arr);		
//   create the output name
$output_name = 'pathtooutputhtmlfile';
if (!$out_hdl = fopen($output_name, 'c'))
{
	echo "Could not open output file '$output_name'<br>";
	exit();
}
//  start creating option tags and the html file that you will use
//  in your mail form script
$out_cnt = 0;
foreach($arr as $st)
{
	// create the option tag for the dropdown list to use
	$output_tag = "<option value='$st'>$st</option>";
	$result = fwrite($out_hdl, $output_tag);
	if (!$result)
	{
		echo "Error writing state '$output_tag'<br>";
		exit();
	}
	else
	{
		$out_cnt++;
		echo "Wrote $output_tag<br>";
	}
}
fclose($out_hdl);
echo "Wrote out $out_cnt option tags<br>";
//  include this file in the html inside of the <select> start and end tags
//  Obviously you only need to run this once.
exit(); 

The idea is to produce the <option> tags for the states and save them in a plain text file.  You will then include that in your script where you have the dropdown list.  It is already in html so you just simply do the include in a block of php code:

echo "<select name='state_dropdown'>";
require 'pathtostatesfile';
echo "</select">;
(continue on with html)

 

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