choosing recipients in a mail form
I've got FormMail and form-2-mail. In general it doesn't matter what kind of form mail processor I'm using but what I want to do is have the person filling out the form choose which person or email address they want the form mail to be sent to. The processing scripts I mentioned seem to require recipients predetermined in a separate file (to hide the address from the user). I can add multiple addresses but I don't think I can make it a variable determined by the user. Any suggestions? Is there a better script for me to use that may help with this, or can this be overcome with a bit of script altering?
Thanks.
Renegade posted this at 04:16 — 30th December 2002.
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What about a drop-down combo list thingy? <-- lol sorry don't know what it's called,
edit: by the way i'm referring to those boxes at the bottom of the page that lets you choose which forum you wnat to go to
Suzanne posted this at 05:06 — 30th December 2002.
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SELECT boxes and you could ostensibly set them as a variable and have it read into the script. The only problem with that is it will allow for harvesting unless you turn it around and set the SELECT values to something arbitrary (a1, a2, a3) and have those values set in the script.
fifeclub posted this at 15:11 — 2nd January 2003.
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I now figured out how to go about this within my script but I've got one simple problem. I will need to set the variable in php by saying "if 'A' is chosen in the dropdown menu, then use appropriate email address" How do I set a php variable in a dropdown menu (before it posts to the cgi script)?
Busy posted this at 20:54 — 2nd January 2003.
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[email protected]
[email protected]
<?phpif ($email_form == "a") {
$sent_to = "[email protected]";
} else if {$email_form == "b") {
$sent_to = <a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="bb-email">two@email.com</a>";
} else { $sent_to = "default@email.com"; }
?>
this is just a really quick example, a switch option would probably be better. the form would have a value next to the email address, in this example I used "a" and "b" if none were chosen it would use [email protected] or you could set up an validation section to make sure it went somewhere.
the variable $sent_to is what you pass on.
why are you using a cgi scrip as well? PHP has the mail() function you can use
fifeclub posted this at 21:13 — 2nd January 2003.
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Thanks! That seems simple enough, even for me. My home computer is in the shop right now but I'll give that a shot as soon as I get it back.
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