PHP mail - checkboxes values do not appears in email

[fazlionline]

Contact us form Full Name: Persoanl Email: Operating System Windows Linux Mobile Gender Male Female Languages: English Pashto Dari Message:   File Attachment:

Edited February 20, 2010 by fazlionline

[falkencreative]

From http://www.computing.net/answers/webdevel/php-amp-checkboxes/1122.html

 

Remember that checkboxes with the same name work in a group, and the form will pass their value as an array. However, in your form you should tell explicitly that the checkboxes should pass their value as an array.

 

For example:

 

 

So in your case your script should loop through all the elements in the area to see if the box was checked or not.

 

For example:

 

$state=$_POST['state'];
foreach ($state as $statename)
{
echo "$statename is checked";
}
?>

 

Basically, the important bits are that you need to add "[]" to the end of your checkbox's name, so that PHP understands that it's dealing with an array of values, and then use a foreach loop to get each of those values within the PHP script.

[fazlionline]

falkencreative

 

i have changes my script according to your suggestion

 

now i get a messages after i submit form"

 

English is checkedPashto is checkedDari is checked

Mail sent! Yay PHP!

 

but in my email, i get:

language: Array

[fazlionline]

instead of Print, how i can store the loop value in a variable and send that variable through mail()

[falkencreative]

You weren't really supposed to simply copy/paste the code -- it contains the method you need to follow to get this working, not the solution itself. If you simply copy and paste everything, rather than understanding how it works, how are you going to learn?

 

The checkboxes are already in a variable -- you just need to loop through and add them to your email. For example:

 

$details = "\n URL - Form: $url\n
           Subject: $subject\n
           Name: $name\n
           email: $email\n
           system: $system \n
           gender: $gender \n
           language: ";
foreach ($language as $lang)
{
   $details .= "$lang ";
}
$details .= "\n";
$details .= "message: $message \n";

[fazlionline]

thanks i read PHP foreach and PHP array in TIZAG.com

thanks alot.

 

now, i have two qestions:

 

1 - if a user do not click any of the optoin in langauges, i get error:

 

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in d:\Customers\user1092190\www\t6_e\contactus.php on line 21

 

Mail sent! Yay PHP!

 

2 - as i am working on Job Application Form, i need such more checkboxes group.

for example, this one was for language, other may be for Interesets (Interest: PHP, JAVA, CSS), other may be for somthing else.

so how i can make all together in my above PHP scrip?

 

thanks

Edited February 21, 2010 by fazlionline

[falkencreative]

1) Try replacing the foreach loop with this:

 

if (isset($language) && $language != '') {
foreach ($language as $lang)
{
   $details .= "$lang ";
}
}

 

I believe that should fix the error, though I haven't tested it.

 

2) You just need to repeat what I've shown you to do. Create other checkboxes that share the same name and include "[]" at the end of their name so PHP realizes they are an array, get the checkbox values using $_POST or $_REQUEST, and then loop through each the checkbox values using a foreach loop to add them to your $results variable so it gets emailed to you.

[fazlionline]

Thanks, now I do not get error if all checkboxes are left blank.

 

I have added second group, interests.

It also works fine but I get languages and interests values all in one line in my email.

 

I have changed the code to this:

if (isset($language) && $language != '') {foreach ($language as $lang){ $details .= "$lang - " ;}}

$para = "

";

$para;

if (isset($interest) && $interest != '') {foreach ($interest as $int){ $details .= "$int - ";}}

 

But didn?t worked

 

How I can get them to appear each group in each line.

 

Like

...

Languages: English - Pashto - Dari

Interests: PHP - Java - CSS

...

 

 

 

My HTML Code is:

 

Languages:

 

English

Pashto

Dari

 

 

 

Interests:

 

PHP

Java

CSS

 

 

Thanks

Edited February 21, 2010 by fazlionline

[falkencreative]

Rather than trying to add

tags, do this instead:

 

$details .= "\n";

[fazlionline]

thanks alot.

can i store the value returend by foreach in a variable?

 

foeexample:

 

if (isset($interest) && $interest != '') {foreach ($interest as $int){    $details .=  "$int - ";}}
$SelectedInterests = $int ;

 

becuse i want to add this varibale in $details :

 

...
$details = "\n URL - Form: $url\n
           Subject: $subject\n
           Name: $name\n
           email: $email\n
           system: $system \n
           gender: $gender \n
           message: $message \n
           [b][color=red]Interest: $int \n[/color][/b]
           language: ";
...

 

 

thanks

Edited February 22, 2010 by fazlionline

[falkencreative]

You could. Something like this should work (placed in the area of your code that contains "$language = $_REQUEST['language'] ; $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;" etc...):

 

$selectedInterests = '';
$interest = $_REQUEST['interest'] ; //this assumes that your checkboxes are named "interest[]"
if (isset($interest) && $interest != '') {foreach ($interest as $int){    $selectedInterests .=  "$int - ";}}

 

and then in when you create the details variable:

 

$details = "\n URL - Form: $url\n
           Subject: $subject\n
           Name: $name\n
           email: $email\n
           system: $system \n
           gender: $gender \n
           message: $message \n
           Interest: $selectedInterests \n
           language: ";