Menu chooses e-mail address to send to?

PHP form using <select> menu to choose receipient

[charles_s]

I'd like to create a feedback form using PHP that the user can select to whom the e-mail is sent by a drop-down, <select> style menu. (i.e. Technicial Support, Customer Service, etc.)

I understand how to do a simple feedback script, and I understand how to create the menu, I'm just not sure how to tie the together.

Would anyone give me a hand on this?

[jatar_k]

if you had a select element like so

<select name="email">
<option value="">select a dept</option>
<option value="1">sales</option>
<option value="2">marketing</option>
<option value="3">human resources</option>
</select>

You can access this in the script that the form posts to by accessing the $_POST [ca.php.net] superglobal array. First test to make sure a selection was made.

if ($_POST['email'] == "" ¦¦!isset($_POST['email'])) { 
 echo "you didn't pick a dept"; 
} else { 
 switch ($_POST['email']) { 
 case 1: 
 $mail_to = "[e-mail]"; 
 break; 
 case 2: 
 $mail_to = "[e-mail]"; 
 break; 
 case 3: 
 $mail_to = "[e-mail]"; 
 break; 
 } 
 // then you can do your mail call here 
 $sub = "some subject"; 
 $mess = "Message stuff"; 
 $mailhead = "your preferred mail headers here"; 
 mail($mail_to,$sub,$mess,$mailhead); 
}

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