Question

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to post a form using php mail() function to the person selected in a from a option drop down box.

My drop down box shows

<label for="contact">Job Contact:*</label>

<select id='contact' name='contact'>
<option value='' selected='selected'>Please select</option>
<option value='name1'>Name2</option>
<option value='name2'>Name1</option>
</select> 

Which I get the value.

$contact =  $_POST['contact'];

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switch ($contact) {

            case "name1":
            $to         = "[e-mail]";
            break;
            case "name2":
            $to         = "[e-mail]";
            break;

        }

mail($to, …, …, …);

I can not see why switch does not work?

if i use $to on its own the form sends.

Any ideas would be a great help.

Answer 1

There are several points of failure here;

You could try expanding your switch (for debugging purposes only) to do something like this:

switch ($contact) {

            case "name1":
            $to         = "[e-mail]";
            break;
            case "name2":
            $to         = "[e-mail]";
            break;
            default:
            var_dump($contact);
            exit();

        }

This will force your switch to handle the contents of $contact if it desn’t match any of the switches.

Secondly, try to make sure that $to actually contains a value.

Do this by adding ‘var_dump($to); right before the mail() function.

This is basic debugging – and I suspect that one of those will tell you where the error is.