How to send email based on drop-down selection?

[pworks]

My customers will fill out a form, and then send it to one of three distributution centers. My idea for selecting the email recipient is to put the distribution center email addresses in a drop-down list or in a radio button section.

How can i grab the email address based on the selection and have the form mailed to that email address?

[tyman00]

I can't guarantee that this will work. But it is what I would try first.

<form name="FORMMAIL">
<select name="recipients" >
<option selected value="email1_AtMangle_domain.com">Location1</option>
<option value="email2_AtMangle_domain.com">Location 2</option>
<option value="email3_AtMangle_domain.com">Location3</option>
</select>
</form> 

_AtMangle_ would of course be the At Mangle you setup for formmail.php to hide the recipients true email from Email Harvesters. If you didn't specify one (you should consider it ) just use @ instead. Hope it works!

[pworks]

I understand the concept behind AtMangle (to protect against email harvesters), but my question is this:

How do I set the TARGET_EMAIL to the drop-down selection?

My code for the form includes this:
<!-- STEP 2: Put your email address in the 'recipients' value.
Note that you also have to allow this email address in the
$TARGET_EMAIL setting within formmail.php!
-->
<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="design@greenberginteractive.com" />

[tyman00]

Open formmail.php

Go to about line: 2763 (Location of TARGET_EMAIL)


This should be the code for that line:

$TARGET_EMAIL = array(EMAIL_NAME."@yourDOMAIN\.com$"); 

This will allow emails to be sent to any address in the actual domain. If you want to be more specific for security put the account name infront of the @ symbol. For more information there is a ton of information that is commented in the section just above the TARGET_EMAIL line. Besure you keep the \ before .com and the $ following .com. It is important, also documented in the comments in formmail.php.

Then in your form (HTML file) just add the drop down list that I posted earlier.

Edit: PS you might want to edit your previous post to remove your email so spam harvesters cant get them from this site either. Just use yourDomain.com for the example.

[pworks]

thanks for all your help so far.

So what do I put in for the value in the following line in my form?
<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="?????" />

Thanks,
Carol

p.s. I can't figure out how to edit an email in this forum

[russellr]

Hi,

Tyman's advice is completely correct.

You leave out the "<input ... name="recipients" ..." field and replace it with the drop down (select) field as shown earlier.

[pworks]

OK -- it's still not working. In my form, I have commented out the line:
<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="design_@_greenberginteractive.com" />


My dropdown code in my form looks like this:
<select name="recipients" size="1" class="bodycopy">
<option selected="selected">Select a region...</option>
<option value="cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com"">Western US,
Cananda, Hawaii</option>
<option value="<A href="mailto:cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Central">cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Central US, Canada</option>
<option value="<A href="mailto:cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Eastern">cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Eastern US, Canada, Puerto Rico</option>
<option value="<A href="mailto:cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Europe</option">cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Europe</option>
<option value="<A href="mailto:cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Asia</option">cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Asia</option>
</select>

My formmail.php target email line looks like this:
$TARGET_EMAIL = array(EMAIL_NAME."@greenberginteractive\.com$");

I'm still not receiving the form emails. What is still wrong with the code?

[russellr]

Hi,

You have:

<option value="<A href="mailto:cs101_@_greenberginteractive.com">Central">

That's not what Tyman suggested. Your first option value is OK, the rest are wrong.

You want:

<option value="email1">...
<option value="email2">...
<option value="email3">...

No "<A>" tags, no "href", no "mailto".

[russellr]

Hi,

I just realized that the forums probably added that junk when you pasted the email addresses.

If your options are right, then when you say you commented out

<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="design_@_greenberginteractive.com" />

what precisely did you do?

Can you post the URL for your form so we can take a look?

[tyman00]

Hi,

I just realized that the forums probably added that junk when you pasted the email addresses.

I had that same issue when I posted the example. Thats why I wrote it as an AtMangle example. It promoted that function at the same time, so it worked out well