Form with multiple actions

[KntckyGentleman]

Not sure if this has been asked before. I did a search but couldn't find it. If this does end up being a duplicate thread, my bad.

 

So I have this form, and what it does is it takes the information that the user inputs and sends it via email to us using a PHP script when submit is clicked. The information is sent to us in a certain way that fits into our client relationship manager nicely. But what the script does is another story. I'm concerned about the HTML.

 

Looks kinda like this.

<form action="email.php" class="container" id="mail" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"  language="JavaScript" name="FrontPage_Form2"><li></li><label>Title</label><select id="title" name="title" tabindex="3"><option value="">Select</option><option value="">Mr.</option><option value="">Ms.</option><option value="">Mrs.</option></select><input name="Submit" class="submit" tabindex="16" type="submit" value="Submit" />

Etc.

 

What I want to know is how to, if possible, have the form set up so that it executes a different script if the user clicks a checkbox.

 

Like

<form action="email.php" class="container" id="mail" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"  language="JavaScript" name="FrontPage_Form2"><li></li><label>Title</label><select id="title" name="title" tabindex="3"><option value="">Select</option><option value="">Mr.</option><option value="">Ms.</option><option value="">Mrs.</option></select><li></li><label>Have the email sent directly to sales</label><input name="checkbox"  tabindex="17" type="checkbox"><input name="Submit" class="submit" tabindex="16" type="submit" value="Submit" />

So when that checkbox is clicked, instead of executing email.php, it executes another script instead that sends a different message to a different person.

 

If that makes any sense. If you want the real code, I can give it to you, it's just a lot longer and I don't see it as necessary to illustrate my point.

 

If anyone knows how to achieve this, or has any ideas, I will implement them immediately, and pledge undying loyalty to said user.

[davej]

Since when does the <form> tag have a language attribute?

 

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp

 

email.php isn't a script. It is page containing scripts, which hopefully are nicely organized code blocks or functions. Let the first script look at the checkbox value and then call the appropriate code block.

[KntckyGentleman]

Since when does the <form> tag have a language attribute?

 

I have no idea, I didn't build this page. I'm just trying to edit it. The problem with the php page is that it's all streamlined and really interconnected, and I didn't build it either. And every time I try to change it, it stops working. Perhaps because I am an incompetent fool, I don't know. I know that if I could get the checkbox to lead to a different php page I could copy the email.php and make a few changes to just the values in order to get it to send a different message to someone else. The php was a prebuilt bit of code that the company bought before I started working here and I don't know how to work it without messing it up. It's called Mail Manager EX. I can post the code for it here if you need it.

[davej]

Well, you could have Javascript change the action on the form, but that seems kinda pointless because your Php code will have to check the value of that checkbox anyway, just to be sure.

[KntckyGentleman]

Do you think it's possible to have the checkbox not as part of the form, but instead something that will trigger Javascript to change the entire form? For instance, if not checked, the for will stay as is, but if checked, an entirely different form will be present, but the only difference between the two would be the action.

[Ingolme]

I would have PHP decide what to do depending on if the checkbox was checked:

<?phpif(empty($_POST['check'])) {    // Do one action} else {    // Do another action.}?>

[KntckyGentleman]

Tried that, when I click submit the browser stops on a blank page at "Http://website.com/email.php" and doesn't go through to the thank you page, nor does it send anything.

[davej]

This is the company website?

Edited December 12, 2013 by davej

[KntckyGentleman]

Yeah, if you guys want the files I can attach them.

 

The page with the current form is here http://www.rnfa.org/brochurerequest.html

 

It might ask you to fill in an entered site thing if you click it, just pick arbitrary values and type test in the name and test@test.com for the email.

 

This is the page I made with the box. That's not exactly what it'll say, but it's a draft. http://www.rnfa.org/test_brochurerequest.html

Edited December 12, 2013 by KntckyGentleman

[davej]

I think you have only one reasonable choice and that is to follow through with Foxy's suggestion in post #6 above. You will have to learn the necessary Php. I doubt that your company wants you to post their website code on public internet forums.

[MarkT]

In the form:

<input type="checkbox" name="check" value="yes">

 

In PHP:<?PHP

$check = $_POST['check'];

if($check == "yes") {

Do this }

else {

Do that }

?>

 

Should work.