Question

I have a page with multiple forms (2 forms) on that page.

There is a callup form and a contacts form in the footer of the page.

So customers may choose to just enter a phone nr and press submit in one form, or they may fill in the other form with name, email, and a message and then press submit.

I am working on a PHP mail() function to separate which form is beeing submitted, however I have forgot alot of programming over the last time, so I turn to you again in asking what to do here.

How can I in the PHP code separate which form has been submitted?

This is what I have in the php right now:

$type = $_POST['type'];

    if($type == 'callup'){
        $tel_nr = $_POST['tel'];

        $to     =       '[e-mail]';
        $subject    =   'Call customer';
        $message    =   'Client telephone nr is '.$tel_nr.'.';
        $message    .=  '\n';
        $message    .=  'Client signed in at this date and time: '.date('Y-m-d').' Time: '.date('H:m:s').'';

        mail($to, $subject, $message);

    }

Basically what I want to do is to send an email to myself when customer submits a form. But depending on which form customer submits, I want to send the corresponding email.

Answer 1

Use multiple names for submitting:

In your first form:

<input type="submit" name="address" value="Submit Address" />

In your second form:

<input type="submit" name="zipcode" value="Submit Zipcode" />

Then, serverside, check for the available names:

if (isset($_POST['address'])) {
    // ...
} else if (isset($_POST['zipcode'])) {
    // ...
}