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Hi, I'm creating a simple PHP contact form, that will have a drop-down menu for the recipients!This is my code:

<form method="post" action=""><ul id="contact_form">	<li>		<label for="dept">To</label>		<select name="dept">			<option value="" disabled="disabled" selected="selected">Please choose one...</option>			<optgroup label="Support">				<option value="dave@dave.co.uk">Dave</option>				<option value="andrew@andrew.co.uk">Andrew</option>				<option value="chris@chris.co.uk">Chris</option>			</optgroup>		</select>	</li>	<li>		<label for="name">Name</label>		<input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="" maxlength="100" />	</li>	<li>		<label for="company">Company</label>		<input type="text" id="company" name="company" value="" maxlength="100" />	</li>		<li>		<label for="tel">Telephone</label>		<input type="text" id="tel" name="tel" value="" maxlength="100" />	</li>	<li>		<label for="email">Email address</label>		<input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="" maxlength="100" />	</li>	<li>		<label for="message">Inquiry</label>		<textarea id="message" name="message"></textarea>	</li>	<li>		<label></label>		<input type="submit" value="Send" />	</li></ul></form>

I have thought about using PHP mail function, but was wondering if someone could post a better way of doing it? SAMPLES WOULD BE AWESOME! All I need is for the content to be mailed to the email address selected from the drop-down, also im not sure if the email address should be in the values or in the php code? thanks.

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The mail function is the common way of sending mail. If you don't want to use that, the PEAR package has a mail class also. If the email address gets submitted to the page it will be able to be picked up by spambots looking for addresses to spam, and a spammer could also use any other address they want to send the mail wherever they want it to go. It's usually better to put the addresses in the PHP code.http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.phphttp://pear.php.net/package/Mail

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Hi, I'm creating a simple PHP contact form, that will have a drop-down menu for the recipients!This is my code:
<?php$dropdown = isset($_POST['test']) ? $_POST['test'] : '';$look = ''; //just a custom echo$ssr = $_POST['dept']; //get the data form the selectif($dropdown == "1"){    if($_POST['done']){        if ($ssr == 'Dave') {             //put what you want here if they pick Dave        }        elseif ($ssr == 'Andrew'){             //put what you want here if they pick Andrew        }        elseif ($ssr == 'Chris'){            //put what you want here if they pick Chris        }        else {            //put somthing here if they dont select anything        }    }}?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html>    <head>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">        <title></title>    </head>    <body><form method="post"><input type="hidden" name="test" value="1" /><?php echo $look ?><ul id="contact_form">    <li>        <label for="dept">To</label>        <select name="dept">            <option value="" disabled="disabled" selected="selected">Please choose one...</option>            <optgroup label="Support">                <option>Dave</option>                <option>Andrew</option>                <option>Chris</option>            </optgroup>        </select>    </li>    <li>        <label for="name">Name</label>        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="" maxlength="100" />    </li>    <li>        <label for="company">Company</label>        <input type="text" id="company" name="company" value="" maxlength="100" />    </li>        <li>        <label for="tel">Telephone</label>        <input type="text" id="tel" name="tel" value="" maxlength="100" />    </li>    <li>        <label for="email">Email address</label>        <input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="" maxlength="100" />    </li>    <li>        <label for="message">Inquiry</label>        <textarea id="message" name="message"></textarea>    </li>    <li>        <label></label>        <input type="submit" value="Send" name="done" />    </li></ul></form>    </body></html>

i'll post the code for if you want to use anther page for the php coding.and like he said make a code for spam$ssr don't mean anything its just what i put for stuff like this

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Thanks for your replies. I think the best option will be to create a simple ONE PAGE .php file that will house both the form and the php process code, I'm looking for the simplest way of building a drop-down menu to choose the email address, and im not bothered about spam and the like (its a prototype) Also i dont want the code to process until the user has hit the submit button. I'm not sure how to do this, I remember doing something similar a while back with a variable and if statement, but it seemed buggy and incorrect, thanks.

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I'm really struggling with this, could someone post an example of using the MAIL function and the drop down.So far I have this code: 

<?phpif(isset($_POST['submit'])) {$to = "";$subject = "";$name = $_POST['name'];$company = $_POST['company'];$tel = $_POST['tel'];$email = $_POST['email']; $body = "From: $name\n Company: $company\n Tel: $tel\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message"; echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";mail($to, $subject, $body);} else {echo "blarg!";}?>

So now all I need is to be able to grab the data from a drop right? How do I do this, I'm going to go with putting the actual values in the drop-down box.like so:

				<option value="dave@dave.co.uk">Dave</option>				<option value="andrew@andrew.co.uk">Andrew</option>				<option value="chris@chris.co.uk">Chris</option>

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 <?php # Script 10.1 - contact.php// Check for form submission:if (isset($_POST['contact_submit'])){	//Form validation	if(!empty($_POST['contact']) &&			!empty($_POST['contact_name']) &&		!empty($_POST['contact_email']) &&		!empty($_POST['comments']) )		{			//Create the body:					$body = "Name:			{$_POST['contact_name']}\n\n					 Email:			{$_POST['contact_email']}\n\n					 Comments:			{$_POST['comments']}";					//Make it no longer than 100 character:					$body = wordwrap($body, 100);					//Send the email:					mail("{$_POST['contact']}",			'A Message from the Website', $body,			"From: {$_POST['contact_email']}");						//Print a message					echo '<p><em>Thank you, your request has been processed.</em></p>';					//Clear $_POST (so that the form's not sticky					$_POST = array();		}				else		{			echo '<p style="font-weight: bold;			color: #C00">Its kind a hard to sing to your friends if you cant see them...Try again please.</p>';		}	} //end of main isset() If//Create the HTML form?>

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<form action="index.php" method="post">      <p>Contacts: <br/>        <select name="contact">          <option value="owen@analogstudios.net">Owen (Analog Studios)</option>          <option value="thehappymexican@yahoo.com">Aldon (Manager -           Electro Calrissian)</option>		  <option value="roryboyan@yahoo.com">Rory Boyan</option>          <?php if (isset($_POST['contact'])) echo 	$_POST['contact']; ?>        </select>      </p>      <p>Your Name:         <input type="text" name="contact_name" 	size="30" maxlength="80" value="<?php if	(isset($_POST['contact_name'])) echo $_POST['contact_name']; ?>" />      </p>      <p>Your Email:  <br/>        <input type="text" name="contact_email" 	size="30" maxlength="80" value="<?php if	(isset($_POST['contact_email'])) echo $_POST['contact_email']; ?>" />      </p>      <p>Comments:<br/>        <textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="29">		<?php if (isset($_POST['comments'])) echo 	$_POST['comments']; ?></textarea>      </p>      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Contact Us"/>      <input type="hidden" name="contact_submit" value="email_contact"/>    </form>

this code makes the form "sticky" so it won't change pages after you hit submit.

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