Question

I’ve only skimmed through, but I wanted to get my first question out here, seeing as I haven’t found a specific and similar example/inquiry.

I have on the ‘first page’ of a site many groups of varying companies. In each group are 1 – 20 or so check-boxed input fields so that a client can require different information be sent to them after they submit the form below. On a separate page that only runs a php script, I email the form to the host company. The message then displays as so: (and I changed content…)

I want it to read:

            *Favorite Animals: Dog, Cat, Bird*

However I have it reading:

            Favorite Animals: Dog,
            Favorite Animals: Cat,
            Favorite Animals: Bird,

My Code:

On the first page we have a list of different checkboxes in the same array with obvious different values… like shown below:

<input type="checkbox" name="animals[]" value="Dogs" class="cb">
 Dogs<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="animals[]" value="Cats" class="cb">
 Cats<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="animals[]" value="Birds" class="cb">
 Birds<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="animals[]" value="Dragons" class="cb">
 Dragons<br>

The above code is then submitted (via post) to a separate php document.

The relevant code in this second page is:

$animals = $_POST['animals'];

below…

    foreach ($animals as $an) {
$email_message .= "Favorite Animals: ".clean_string($an)." ,\n";
    }

I realize what’s going on, but I haven’t figured out a way to work the foreach statement so that the “Favorite Animal’s” is displayed once, followed by the possible array of whatever was selected on the previous page.

I have no errors, only getting the information in a way I don’t desire. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Just take the static parts outside the loop. That should do it.

 $email_message .= "Favorite Animals: ";

 foreach ($animals as $an) {
   $email_message .= clean_string($an)." ,";
 }
  $email_message = rtrim ($email_message, ",");

 $email_message .= "\n";

 // Continue appending rest of the email message