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PHP

Posted by joeboo2529
joeboo2529
9,805 Points

How to submit checkboxes?

<div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6">

                  <?php  $salarysurveys = array('general' => 'General Surveys',
                                              'industry' => 'Industry Surveys',
                                              'local' => 'Local Surveys',
                                              'club' => 'Club / HR Surveys',
                                              'tailormade' => 'Tailormade Surveys');
                ?>


                  <?php foreach ($salarysurveys as $key => $salarysurvey): ?>
                    <?php echo "<p class='label-p'>$salarysurvey</p>" ; ?>
                  <?php endforeach ?>

                    </div>
                <div class="col-sm-6 center-checkbox">

                   <?php foreach ($salarysurveys as $key => $salarysurvey): ?>
                    <?php echo "<input  name='salarysurveys[]' type='checkbox' value='$key'>"; ?>
                  <?php endforeach ?>


                </div>
              </div><!-- end row -->
joeboo2529
joeboo2529
9,805 Points

// Check form page

<?php

// turn off errors error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { $companyname = trim($_POST["companyname"]); $contact_jobtitle = trim($_POST["contact_jobtitle"]); $title = trim($_POST["title"]); $fullname = trim($_POST["fullname"]); $address = trim($_POST["address"]); $tel = trim($_POST["tel"]); $email = trim($_POST["email"]); $details = trim($_POST["details"]); // $salarysurveys = $_POST['salarysurveys']; // $hrpolicysurveys = $_POST['hrpolicysurveys'];

// check stage 1 - these inputs can't be empty
if ($companyname == "" OR $contact_jobtitle == "" OR $title == "" OR $fullname == "" OR $address == "" OR $tel == ""  OR $email == "") {
    $error_message = "You must fill your Company, Job Title, Title, fullname, Address, Phone and Email.";
}

if(!empty($_POST['salarysurveys'])){
    foreach($_POST['salarysurveys'] as $selected){
    echo $selected."</br>";
    }
}


// check stage 2
//check that none of the fields has malicious code
if (!isset($error_message)) {
    foreach( $_POST as $value ){
        if( stripos($value,'Content-Type:') !== FALSE ){
            $error_message = "There was a problem with the information you entered.";
        }// end if
    }// end foreach
}// end if


// check stage 3
// check that the spam honeypot field is left blank
if (!isset($error_message) && $_POST["honeypot"] != "") {
    $error_message = "Your form submission has an error.";
}


// TODO: Send email
// include email
require_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();

if (!isset($error_message) && !$mail->ValidateAddress($email)){
    $error_message = "You must specify a valid email address.";
}

 if (!isset($error_message)) { // If $error_message is not set, then we know that we did not encounter an error.
    $email_body = "";
    $email_body = $email_body . "<h1>CONTACT DETAILS</h1>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Company: " . $companyname . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Job Title: " . $contact_jobtitle . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Title: " . $title . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Full Name: " . $fullname . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Address: " . $address . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Telephone: " . $tel . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Email: " . $email . "<br>";
    $email_body = $email_body . "Website: " . $website . "<br><br>";

    $email_body = $email_body . "<h1>SALARY SURVEYS</h1>";  
    $email_body = $email_body .implode(", ", $_POST['salarysurveys'])."<br>";   
    // $email_body = $email_body . "General Surveys: " . $salarysurveys . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Industry Surveys: " . $salarysurveys . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Local Surveys: " . $salarysurveys . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Club HR Surveys: " . $salarysurveys . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Tailormade Surveys: " . $salarysurveys . "<br>";

    $email_body = $email_body . "<h1>HR Policy Surveys</h1>";   
    //$email_body = $email_body .implode(", ", $hrpolicysurveys)."<br>";          
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Company Car: " . $companycar . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Redundancy: " . $redundancy . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Shift and Overtime: " . $shiftandovertime . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Relocation: " . $relocation . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "Maternity and Childcar: " . $maternityandchildcar . "<br>";
    // $email_body = $email_body . "UK Benefits Review: " . $ukbenefitsreview . "<br>";

    $email_body = $email_body . "<h1>Other Details</h1>";   
    $email_body = $email_body . "Details: " . $details . "<br>";

    $mail->SetFrom($email, $companyname, $name );
    $address = "kanisornjoe@gmail.com";
    $mail->AddAddress($address, "Contact Form");
    $mail->Subject    = "Contact Form Submission | " . $companyname;
    $mail->MsgHTML($email_body);


    if($mail->Send()) {
        header("Location: contactform.html.php/?status=thanks");
        exit;
    } else {
      $error_message = "There was a problem sending the email: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    }  // }end if

  }// end if

}

?>

2 Answers

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Is that your complete HTML? I assume you are writing a form using the <form> tag? If so, are you using the POST or GET method? When submitting, is the user redirected to a different page or does the same one re-load?

joeboo2529
joeboo2529
9,805 Points
joeboo2529
joeboo2529
9,805 Points

Hi christian. Yes it is my complete HTML form (ish). i'm using POST when submitting a form to a page called check-contact-form.php. This page is checking whether the inputs is empty or has any malicious input or not. Once the form is submit, it redirect back to the same page and add a string of ?=status