Dynamic PHP Form

[larrpan]

Hi I need help with making a dynamic php form. What needs to happen is when a dropdown menu selection is made, the form then is arranged to send the form results to certain email addresses. So if I choose drop down menu selection "blue" "a@a.com b@b.com" receive the submitted form, and if selection "red" "c@c.com d@d.com" receive the form results. I've yet learned to make such dynamic form. Is there a form generator open source app that can help me with this? or can someone help me create this? Thanks

[Dan Grossman]

if ($_POST['some_form_element'] == "blue") {
  $email_to_send_to = "a@a.com";
} else if ($_POST['some_form_element'] == "red") {
  $email_to_send_to = "c@c.com";
} 

Just a conditional

[larrpan]

would this also work for a cgi form like this one:

<form action=../../cgi-bin/mailer.cgi method=post name="residential_request" id="residential_request">
<input name=recipient type=hidden value="a@a.com, b@b.com">
<input type=hidden
value="Service Request" name=subject>
<input type=hidden
value="problem_category, first_last_name, email, area_code, contact_number, street_address, zip_code, urgency, preferred_date, descr_of_problem, preferred_time"
name=required>
<input type=hidden value=email
name=print_config>
<input type=hidden
value=http://www.blabla.com/request/redirect_for_regular.htm
name=redirect>
<input type=hidden
value=http://www.blabla.com/request/redirect_for_emergency.htm
name=redirect_emer>
<br>
<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td><div align="right"><span class="readingtextbold"> </span><span class="captionred">
<select name="problem_category" size=1 id="select6">
<option selected>Problem Category/option>
<option value="AIR CONDITIONING">
AIR CONDITIONING </option>
<option value="ELECTRICAL">
ELECTRICAL </option>
<option value="PLUMBING">PLUMBING</option>
<option value="Priority One">Priority One</option>
</select>
</span></div></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>First, Last Name
<input size=42 name=first_last_name></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td width="317"> <div align="right">Email Address
<input size=40 name=email>
</div></td>
<td width="47">&nbsp; </td>
<td width="356">Phone: <br> <input size=5 name=area_code>
<input size=20 name=contact_number> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td height="48" align=right> <div align="right"> Street
Address
<input size=42 name=street_address>
</div></td>
<td>&nbsp; </td>
<td>Zip Code<br> <input size=10 name=zip_code></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td> <div align="right">
<select size=1 name="urgency">
<option selected>Choose Your Urgency </option>
<option value="This is not urgent">This is not urgent
</option>
<option value="This is urgent">This is urgent </option>
</select>
</div></td>
<td>&nbsp; </td>
<td>Preferred Service Date (mm/dd/yy)
<input size=42 name=preferred_date> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td> <div align="right">Description of Problem<br>
<textarea name=descr_of_problem cols=30 rows=7 id="textarea5"></textarea>
</div></td>
<td>&nbsp; </td>
<td valign="top"><p>
<select name=preferred_time size=1 id="select2">
<option selected> Service/option>
<option value="morning">Morning </option>
<option value="afternoon">Afternoon</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>&nbsp; </p>
<p>
<input type=submit value="Submit Query" name="submit information">
<input name="reset" type=reset value=Reset>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="readingtextbold">
<td valign="top"> <div align="right"> </div></td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp; </td>
<td valign="middle"> <div align="left"> </div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

[larrpan]

can you recommend me a good php form to use?

[prasanthmj]

Having the email address in the HTML form is not a good idea. The email address will be harvested by spam bots and you will start getting loads of spam messages.

Use a form mail script that keeps the email address in the script itself(rather than the HTML form) or try writing a php form to email script.

[larrpan]

That PHP Form to Email looks awesome. One last question, where can I place the code you kindly gave me in this form:

<?php
if(!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
echo "error; you need to submit the form!";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$visitor_email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

//Validate first
if(empty($name)||empty($visitor_email))
{
echo "Name and email are mandatory!";
exit;
}

if(IsInjected($visitor_email))
{
echo "Bad email value!";
exit;
}

$email_from = 'tom@amazing-designs.com';//<== update the email address
$email_subject = "New Form submission";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from the user $name.\n".
"Here is the message:\n $message".

$to = "tom@amazing-designs.com";//<== update the email address
$headers = "From: $email_from \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n";
//Send the email!
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//done. redirect to thank-you page.
header('Location: thank-you.html');


// Function to validate against any email injection attempts
function IsInjected($str)
{
$injections = array('(\n+)',
'(\r+)',
'(\t+)',
'(%0A+)',
'(%0D+)',
'(%08+)',
'(%09+)'
);
$inject = join('|', $injections);
$inject = "/$inject/i";
if(preg_match($inject,$str))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

?>

[larrpan]

I think that I'm almost there. I'm getting an error, can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

error; you need to submit the form!
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/testform/form-to-email.php:5) in
/public_html/testform/form-to-email.php on line 93



<?php
if(!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
echo "error; you need to submit the form!";
}
$problem_category = $_POST ['problem_category'];
$name = $_POST['first_last_name'];
$area_code = $_POST['area_code'];
$contact_number = $_POST['contact_number'];
$street_address = $_POST['street_address'];
$zip_code = $_POST['zip_code'];
$urgency = $_POST['urgency'];
$preferred_date = $_POST['preferred_date'];
$descr_of_problem = $_POST['descr_of_problem'];
$preferred_time = $_POST['preferred_time'];

if ($_POST['problem_category'] == "RESIDENTIAL_AIR_CONDITIONING ") {
$email_to_send_to = " info@didgeman.com";
} else if ($_POST['problem_category'] == "RESIDENTIAL_ELECTRICAL ") {
$email_to_send_to = "info@creativeinstincts.org";
} else if ($_POST['problem_category'] == "RESIDENTIAL_PLUMBING") {
$email_to_send_to = " info@bartonsprings.net";
} else if ($_POST['problem_category'] == "Operations") {
$email_to_send_to = "info@mediaintentions.com";
}


//Validate first
if(empty($first_last_name)||empty($first_last_name))
{
echo "Your name is mandatory!";
exit;
}
if(empty($problem_category)||empty($problem_category))
{
echo "Problem Category is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($email)||empty($email))
{
echo "Your email address is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($area_code)||empty($area_code))
{
echo "Your area code is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($contact_number)||empty($contact_number))
{
echo "Your contact phone number is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($street_address)||empty($street_address))
{
echo "Your Street Address is mandatory!";
exit;
}
if(empty($zip_code)||empty($zip_code))
{
echo "Your zip code is mandatory!";
exit;
}
if(empty($urgency)||empty($urgency))
{
echo "Your urgency is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($preferred_date)||empty($preferred_date))
{
echo "Your preferred date is mandatory!";
exit;
}if(empty($descr_of_problem)||empty($descr_of_problem))
{
echo "Your description of problem is mandatory!";
exit;
}
if(empty($preferred_time)||empty($preferred_time))
{
echo "Your preferred time is mandatory!";
exit;
}



$email_from = 'info@didgeman.com';//<== update the email address
$email_subject = "Residential Request Form";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from the user $name.\n".
"Here is the message:\n $message".

$to = "info@didgeman.com";//<== update the email address
$headers = "From: $email_from \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $visitor_email \r\n";
//Send the email!
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//done. redirect to thank-you page.
header('Location: thank-you.html');


// Function to validate against any email injection attempts
function IsInjected($str)
{
$injections = array('(\n+)',
'(\r+)',
'(\t+)',
'(%0A+)',
'(%0D+)',
'(%08+)',
'(%09+)'
);
$inject = join('|', $injections);
$inject = "/$inject/i";
if(preg_match($inject,$str))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

?>