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I am trying to get a simple contact form to work so I get an email when the form is submitted. It works great, by the way. However, I can't get it to work with my dropdown menu. Everything else works, so I am not sure why the dropdown doesn't work. Here is the code: (pretend I put the rest of the form code before and after the dropdown code)

    <select name="State" id="State">
      <option value>Website Design &amp; Development</option>
      <option value>Branding</option>
      <code><option value>Video Production</option>
          <option value>Printing</option>
          <option value>Specialty/Other</option>
        </select>

and the php:

<?php

$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Email'])); ;
$EmailTo = "titanvex@titanvex.com";
$Subject = "Incoming Inquiry from titanvex.com";
$FirstName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['FirstName'])); 
$State = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['State'])); 
$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Email'])); 
$Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Message'])); 

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "Full Name: ";
$Body .= $FirstName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Email: ";
$Body .= $Email;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Project Type: ";
$Body .= $State;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Message: ";
$Body .= $Message;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email 


// redirect to success page 
if (mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>")){
  print "http://www.titanvex.com/contact/sent\">";
}
else{
  print "";
}
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this problem. When I get the email, everything is filled in, except for the part where I am trying to get 'State'. Thank you very much in advanced!

kgscott284

There is a stray 'code' tag in the select that could be slopping it up , also, you will need to make sure "Trim" is not capitalized...it needs to be all lowercase.

But the actual issue is that you are not setting a value in the options...you should have something like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/4DR6b/

AndyHowells

Trim will work capitalised or not, but kgscott is on the money, should be kept as standard lower case.

TitanVex

Perfect. Works great. Thank you very much!

kgscott284

@andy_unleash yes, trim will work capitalized, but for convention sake (and mostly my sanity) it has to be all lower case! hahaha.

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