Need help getting "Radio Button Options" to pass through in PHP email form.

**RiemenDesign** · Mar 26, 2009, 13:18

Hello,

Here is my code of the Form File:

PHP Code:


<form action="form_handler.php" method="post" name="form1" id="form1">

      <span class="style12"><br>

      <strong>A Day of Renewal for Women</strong><br>

      Led by the Rev. Joyce Payne, Conference evangelist of the South Georgia

      Conference of The United Methodist Church.<br>

      <br>

      <strong>Saturday, April 4</strong><br>

      9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon<br>

      Lunch will be served afterward. Bring your Bibles! <br>

      <br>

Full Name<br>

<input style="background-color:#D4F3F7;" size="35" id="name" type="text" name="name">

<br>

<br> 

Email Address

<br>

<input style="background-color:#D4F3F7;" size="35" id="email_address" type="text" name="email_address">

<br>

<br> 

Special Needs (dietary restrictions, wheelchair, etc.)

<br>

<input style="background-color:#D4F3F7;" size="35" id="special_needs" type="text" name="special_needs">

<br>

<br> 

Staying For Lunch?

<br>

<input value="lunch_Yes" type="radio" name="lunch_yes">

Yes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>

<input value="lunch_no" type="radio" name="lunch_no"> 

 No  

 <br>

<br>

<br>

<input value="Register Now" id="submit_prayer_request" class="style12Bold" type="submit" name="submit_prayer_request">

      </span>

        <br>

        <br>

    </form>

Here is my PHP processing file:

PHP Code:


<?php



 $name = $_REQUEST['SSN'] ;

 $email_address = $_REQUEST['FirstName'] ;

 $special_needs = $_REQUEST['LastName'] ;

 $lunch_yes = $_REQUEST['MiddleName'] ;

 $lunch_no = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

 



header ("Location: thankyou.html");  

$content = <<<HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD Xhtml 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

<style type="text/css">



body {

    font-family: Arial;

    font-size: 12px;

}



h2 {

    font-family: Georgia;

    font-size: 14px;

    color: blue;

    margin-bottom: 0px;

}



H3 {

    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    font-size: 14px;

    font-weight: bolder;

    margin-bottom: 5px;

}



</style>

<title>Reservation Form</title>

</head>







<body>

<table width="500px">



    <tr>

        <td>Full Name:</td>

        <td>{$name}</td>

    </tr>



    <tr>

        <td>Email Address:</td>

        <td>{$email_address}</td>

    </tr>



    <tr>

        <td>Special Needs:</td>

        <td>{$special_needs}</td>

    </tr>



    <tr>

        <td>Lunch:</td>

        <td>{$lunch_yes} or {$lunch_no}</td>

    </tr>



</table>

</body>



</html>





HTML;



mail( "email@domain.com", "Reservation from Company", $content, "From:email@domain.com\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");

Everything goes through with no problem to my email, except I cannot get the radio buttons that are checked to tell me what it is they checked.

Thank you!

**spiderling** · Mar 26, 2009, 13:29

Your lunch radio button names should both be "lunch". Then in your PHP you will

PHP Code:


$lunch = $_REQUEST['lunch'];

Currently you are assign your 2 lunch variables values from different form inputs like Middlename and email. Actually all your variables don't match the field names.

You should have this:

PHP Code:


$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;

$email_address = $_REQUEST['email_address'] ;

$special_needs = $_REQUEST['special_needs'] ;

$lunch = $_REQUEST['lunch'] ;

Move your header to after the mail like so:

PHP Code:


mail( "email@domain.com", "Reservation from Company", $content, "From:$email_address\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");

header ("Location: thankyou.html");

exit;

**Mittineague** · Mar 26, 2009, 13:34

Are you sure this is working at all?

The form has the inputs

name
email_address
special_needs
lunch_yes
lunch_no
submit_prayer_request

(*Because the "lunch" radios have different names, they're checkboxes, not "radio buttons" as you mean them to be.)

But the code is using

PHP Code:


$name = $_REQUEST['SSN'] ; 

$email_address = $_REQUEST['FirstName'] ; 

$special_needs = $_REQUEST['LastName'] ; 

$lunch_yes = $_REQUEST['MiddleName'] ; 

$lunch_no = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

which might make sense to you but looks totally messed up to me.

BTW, if you are sending POST do you really want to use REQUEST which would allow someone to type in an HTTP request using GET variables?

**spiderling** · Mar 26, 2009, 13:42

Ooops.

PHP Code:


$name = $_POST['name'] ;

$email_address = $_POST['email_address'] ;

$special_needs = $_POST['special_needs'] ;

$lunch = $_POST['lunch'] ;

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