Patwan

I have understood the concept, thank-you once more for your patience...

Also do you guys have an offline version of W3Schools website? cause am in a remote area in Africa & accessing the internet can be a real hurdle

I've looked around for a few examples and followed the tutorials here but a lot of them are either too advanced for my grasp of PHP as abeginner or their examples are too specific to their own projects. Here's my new snippet // Check Checkbox if(!empty($_POST["checkbox"])){ $checkbox = $_POST['checkbox']; foreach ($_POST["checkbox"] as $value) //loop to store and display values of individual checkboxes {echo "$value"; } else{$checkbox= test_input($_POST["$value"]);}}

// Check Checkbox if(!empty($_POST["checkbox"])){ $checkbox = array("HP", "DELL", "ACER", "TOSHIBA"); foreach ($checkbox as $value) { echo "$checkbox"; } else { $checkbox = test_input($_POST["checkbox"]);} } Followed the tutorial. But still can't get it post the values in my inbox..

<?php if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { // Check Checkbox if(!empty($_POST["checkbox"])){ $value=false; foreach($_POST["checkbox"] as $selected) foreach ["HP", "DELL", "ACER", "TOSHIBA"]; $checkboxErr = "Please Select one of these options"; } else { $checkbox = test_input($_POST["checkbox"]);} } ?> How about that? Am not sure of it,,Could you explain using an example so as to follow easily

Or could you Please explain using the code above as an example..?

This way <?php if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { // Check Checkbox if(!empty($_POST["checkbox"])){ $value=false; foreach($_POST["checkbox"]) $checkboxErr = "Please Select one of these options"; } else { $checkbox = test_input($_POST["checkbox"]);} $array = ["HP", "DELL", "ACER", "TOSHIBA"]; } ?>

Hello dsonesuk, was trying to code a multiple checkbox array for the form above. Cant figure out the problem in the code below? Kindly assist.. HTML code Which type of laptop would you like us to deliver to you? <span class= "error"> * </span> <br> <br> <input type="checkbox" class="input" name="checkbox[]" value="HP"> H.P <br> <input type="checkbox" class="input" name="checkbox[]" value="DELL" > DELL <br> <input type="checkbox" class="input" name="checkbox[]" value="ACER" > ACER<br> <input type="checkbox" class="input" name="checkbox[]" value="TOSHIBA" > TOSHIBA PHP code <?php if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { // Check Checkbox if(!empty($_POST["checkbox"])){ $checkboxErr = "Please Select one of these options"; } else { $checkbox = test_input($_POST["checkbox"]);} $array = ["HP", "DELL", "ACER", "TOSHIBA"]; } ?>

Duly noted,, thanks for your help

Wow..Thanks, I have understood & It works fine, Does the same criteria apply to checkboxes?

Could you Kindly explain using example from the code above so that I can understand easily?

I only want the user to select one option from the Drop-down list, not multiple options. Do i Still need an array?

Hi all, I have a HTML contact form on my website whereby when the user hits submit button I get all other inputs in my email except option from Drop-down list. What could be the problem? ~ Kindly assist <?php //initialize variables and set to empty values $name = $phone = $email = $business = $industry= ""; $nameErr = $phoneErr = $emailErr = $businessErr = $industryErr=""; ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL); if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { $valid = true; //check if name contains letters and white-space if (empty($_POST["name"])) { $valid = false; $nameErr = "Please fill out this field"; echo 'name is empty<br>'; } else { $name = test_input($_POST["name"]); if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ,.-]*$/", $name)) { $valid = false; $nameErr = "*Only Letters and white-spaces are allowed*"; } /* else { echo'name is valid<br>'; } */ } //check if phone contains numbers if (empty($_POST["phone"])) { $valid = false; $phoneErr = "Please fill out this field"; echo'phone is empty<br>'; } else { $phone = test_input($_POST["phone"]); if (!preg_match("/^[0-9 ,+.-]*$/", $phone)) { $valid = false; $phoneErr = "*Only numbers are allowed*"; } /* else { echo' phone is valid<br>'; } */ } //check if email is valid if (empty($_POST["email"])) { $valid = false; $emailErr = "Please fill out this field"; echo'email is empty<br>'; } else { $email = test_input($_POST["email"]); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $valid = false; $emailErr = "*Invalid email address*"; } /* else { echo'email is valid<br>'; } */ } //check if industry is filled if (empty($_POST["industry"])) { $industryErr = "Please Select an item"; } else {$industry = test_input($_POST["industry"]);} } ?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name= "robots" content= "noindex, nofollow"> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name= "author" content= "Kelly James"> <link href= "style.css" rel= "stylesheet" type= "text/css"> <title> Contact form </title> </head> <body> <img src= "images/logo.gif" border= "0" width= "240" height="160"> <br> <div class="form"> <form method= "post" action= "<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]); ?>" > <h4 id="h4form"> Please fill the form below to kick start your project. <br> <br> <font color="red"> *required field </font> </h4> <br> What is your name? <input type= "text" class= "input" name= "name" placeholder= "e.g Nelson Mandela" value="<?php echo $name; ?>" required> <span class= "error"> * <br> <?php echo $nameErr; ?> </span> <br> <br>What is your phone number? <input type= "text" class= "input" name= "phone" value="<?php echo $phone; ?>" placeholder= "e.g 0722222222" required> <span class= "error"> * <br> <?php echo $phoneErr; ?> </span> <br> <br> What is your email address? <input type= "email" class= "input" name= "email" placeholder= "will not be published" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" required> <span class= "error"> * <br> <?php echo $emailErr; ?> </span> <br> <br> What industry is your business? <span class= "error"> * <?php echo $industryErr;?> </span> <select class= "input" name="industry" required> <option value= "" > Select Industry </option> <option value= "Air_and_Travel" >Air & Travel </option> <option value= "Agriculture">Agriculture</option> <option value= "Architecture and Structural"> Architecture and Structural </option> <option value="Attorney & legal"> Attorney & Legal </option> <option value="Automotive"> Automotive </option> <option value= "Consultation"> Consultation </option> </select> <br> <br> <button class="submit" type= "submit" value= "Submit"> Submit Form </button> </form> </div> </body> </html>

Duly noted, I'll put that into consideration

Do you guys have a tutorial in W3schools of "How to send an auto-responder email to a client"?

Wow! wow!, the form finally gets to work. You guys are the BEST!! :Happy: Thank you very much dsonesuk & justsomeguy... Be Blessed

Wow, Thanks, Let me Keep trying my luck

Hey dsonesuk, I really appreciate your help. Does the code above work,,? Cause it still doesn't work for me....

Hey folks, I took heed of your advice & have tried rectifying the form over the weekend. I noticed that PHPMailer works fine but after adding $valid functions it ceases from sending emails to my inbox. - I still think there is an error in how I code the $valid functions to enhance validation before sending mail via PHPMailer. -Could any moderator in this forum create a tutorial of "Validating a PHP contact form using Regexp before sending via PHPMailer" so that me & others in my position could benefit. ~ Kindest regards...

Thanks, let me try it again

Yeah, I tested the PHPMailer before, it worked fine, by then it could send emails before passing user input through validation. But after I added the $valid functions in the coding to help in checking validation before sending any mail, it stopped sending mails to my inbox. I don't know what went wrong after adding $valid functions to the code?

After configuration of the code above, I restarted my XAMPP server but the problem still persists. Could there be any other file I need to configure, cause its` driving me nuts & am running out of time ~ Any advice will be highly appreciated?

Hey, I have configured C:\xampp\php\php.ini and C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini files in XAMPP server. In C:\xampp\php\php.ini file, I found extension=php_openssl.dll and removed the semicolon from the beginninng of the line. I also changed the following bold lines in [mail function]: [mail function] ; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/smtp SMTP=smtp.gmail.com ; http://php.net/smtp-port smtp_port=587 ; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/sendmail-from sendmail_from =my-gmail-id@gmail.com ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ; http://php.net/sendmail-path sendmail_path ="\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t" I then opened C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini and changed the following lines writen in bold [sendmail] ; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server, ; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup) ; emails delivered via IIS's pickup directory cause sendmail to ; run quicker, but you won't get error messages back to the calling ; application. smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com ; smtp port (normally 25) smtp_port=587 ; SMTPS (SSL) support ; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS ; ssl = alway use SSL ; tls = always use TLS ; none = never try to use SSL smtp_ssl=auto ; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry ; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn't provided ; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify ;default_domain=mydomain.com ; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe) ; uncomment to enable logging error_logfile=error.log ; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe) ; uncomment to enable debugging ;debug_logfile=debug.log ; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines auth_username=my-gmail-id@gmail.com auth_password=**************

Let me configure the settings..will get back to you later...

Duly noted I will try that, are there any other settings configured in XAMPP server that could salvage us this cumbersome task?