Contact Page Question

I've had this contact page up and running for a while and I decided to add a Select menu. The problem is i have no idea how to do this in PHP so it shows up on the email it sends me. I'd also like to try to get the feature where it send the person back to my form if the don't select something besides the "Select One"... I know this is a lot to ask so if someone could point me to a tutorial or have a look at the zip I post I would really appreciate it.

http://silent.2dollarhost.net/contact.zip

Thanks

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It is better to post the code instead of a zip file

About your problem, I can't really understand what you ask.

You want to add some extra variables in the mailing?

they way the php is set up now is... it takes what the person types in each text box on the html file and sends it to my email address. What I am trying to do is make the Select thing show up on my email form. I don't know how you would do that in html for it to work with the php other than to give each option a different <label> and if i did that how would i coee it in th php file.

do you get what I am tryin to do?

Hello,

The best way is to post the form with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] as action inside the form element.
Next, place all the form validation at the top of the same page.
If all required fields are filled use this to call the mail script:

Code:

header("Location: handle_contact.php");

check this simple script (example) to validate the form:
http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=24

Hmm that may work but I am still stuck on trying to get the <select> thing to show up on my the email the php script sends to me

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This is how it works in general :

Let's say that you have this :

Code:

<select name="mysel">
<option value="first">This is the first option</option>
<option value="second">This is the second option</option>
</select>

If you click on the second option php will have a variable called $mysel and the contents of this variable will be "second" ( $mysel = 'second)

sometimes its the easy stuff 

your html is bad:

<select class="drop" name="subject">
<option selected>Select One
<option>Comments/Concerns
<option>Graphic Design
<option>Hosting Services
<option>Web Development
</select>

check the options there is no value attribute check the w3: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-SELECT

This is how it works in general :

Let's say that you have this :

Code:

<select name="mysel">
<option value="first">This is the first option</option>
<option value="second">This is the second option</option>
</select>

If you click on the second option php will have a variable called $mysel and the contents of this variable will be "second" ( $mysel = 'second)

you was some seconds to fast Nikolas

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Hehehe. I guess this is the meaning of a helpfull community

so would I leave the php script as it is or do I have to modify that?

so would I leave the php script as it is or do I have to modify that?

check my post the html code is the problem...

Aight thanks agian guys I got it workin

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