Question

I am trying to have a JavaScript form submit its data to a different email based on the drop down the user chooses.

Example:) [drop down list: IT / Sales / HR] If you chose IT it goes to [e-mail], Choosing Sales from the drop down will make the form submit data to [e-mail] and so on.

I have seen a few php answers but I am limited by a content mangier system and must do this in JavaScript.

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

Forms do not “submit to an email” – you have to post it to the server, where you send the email via PHP (or some other server-side language). There is no direct way to email forms from javascript alone.

You simply must have a server-side script to handle the sending of the email. You mention having seen samples…. here’s another.

PHP (test.php)

 $to = $_POST['destination_email'];
 $subject = "Test email";
 $body = "Email sent from website";
 $res = mail($to, $subject, $body);
 if (!$res)
   die('email failed');
 else
   die('email sent');

HTML

<form action="test.php" method="post">
  <select name="destination_email">
   <option value="[e-mail]">Email one</option>
   <option value="[e-mail]">Email two</option>
  </select>
  <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>