Question

please help me out with this problem.I have a contact form like this:

<div class="contact form">
       <form action="" method="get" class="formofcontact"/>
                <p>To:
                     <label>
                     <select name="select" size="1" id="select">
                     <option>Select</option>
                     <?php 
              $mvo=new membersVO();
              $mdao=new membersDAO();
              $list=$mdao->fetchAll('onlypublished');
              foreach($list as $members){?>
                <option value="<?php echo "$members->email1" . "," . "$members->email2" . "," . "$members->email3";?>"><?php echo $members->name;?></option>
                <?php
                }   
                            ?>
                     </select>
                     </label></p>
                     <p>From:
                     <label>
                     <input type="text" name="textfield2" id="textfield2" />                                                                                                   </label>
                     </p>
                     <p>Subject:
                        <label>
                           <input type="text" name="textfield3" id="textfield3" />
                        </label>
                     </p>
                     <p>Message:</p>
                     <p>
                       <label>
                        <textarea name="textarea" id="textarea" cols="45" rows="5">  </textarea>            </label>
                     </p>
                     <p>
                       <label>
                          <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Send" />
                       </label>
                     </p>                                       
                    </form>

Now if someone wants to send email to australian representative then they select australia and they write thir email in the from textbox.Now what i am confused is to send the email in the respective email addresses selected by the viewers.

Please guys help me out.

Answer 1

Here are a few points

1- Use method="POST" instead of GET in your <form> for sending large data like an email.

2- Do not put actual email addresses inside <option>‘s value that will reveal those emails to SPAM email crawlers, just put member’s id or the name itself in there:

foreach($list as $member) {
    echo '<option value="'.$member->id.'">'.$member->name.'</option>';
}

then when you receive the data find that member and get its email:

$selectedMember = null;
foreach($list as $member) {
    if( $member->id == $_POST['select'] ) {
         $selectedMember = $member;
    }
}
if( $selectedMember === null ) die( 'invalid member' );

and to send the email:

if(!@mail($selectedMember->email1, $subject, $body,
          "Return-Path: <$replyEmail>\nFrom: $name <$replyEmail>") )
{
    echo 'error';
} else {
    echo 'message sent successfully';
}