form to email

hello guys,
i was just wondering if you could tell me how to do something. i have made a part of my website so that people can contact me. so the fill in a form then click submit and it gets sent to my email address. it all works perfectly but i want to do something else. i want to have tick boxes in the in my form because just now they are all just text feilds.

Here is the php just now for the text fields:
$name=$_POST['name'];
$owner=$_POST['owner'];
$telephone=$_POST['telephone'];
$addressline1=$_POST['addressline1'];
$addressline2=$_POST['addressline2'];
$town=$_POST['town'];
$county=$_POST['county'];
$postcode=$_POST['postcode'];
$info=$_POST['info'];
$to="ali_b71@hotmail.co.uk";
$message="Restraunts Name: $name \n owner: \"$owner\"\n address line 1: $addressline1 \n address line 2: $addressline2 \n Town: $town \n county: $county \n Postcode: $postcode \n About their restraunt: $info";

its very simple becuase this is my first time using it. but wht would the code be for a tick box?

cheers for your help.

Ali

For the tick boxes, they would go in the html not the php. They would then be included in your PHP so that the information is emailed to you.

How exactly you would do it though, i'm not sure. I know someone will be able to help you though.

can we see full source code?

here is the form:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!--DWLayoutTable-->
<form name="form1" method="post" action="mail2.php">
<tr>
<td height="19" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap><strong>
<LABEL for="name">Establishments Name</LABEL>
</strong></td>
<td width="6" valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" rowspan="2" valign="top"><input name="name" type="text" id="subject" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="147" height="3"></td>
<td width="8"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td width="42"></td>
<td width="26"></td>
<td width="48"></td>
<td width="184"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Your Contact Name </td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="owner" type="text" id="subject2" size="50"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="35"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Telephone Number </td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="telephone" type="text" id="subject3" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Address Line 1 </td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="addressline1" type="text" id="subject4" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19">&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Address Line 2 </td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="addressline2" type="text" id="subject5" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19">&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Town/City</td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="town" type="text" id="subject6" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19">&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>County</td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="county" type="text" id="subject7" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19">&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="22" colspan="2" valign="top" nowrap>Postcode </td>
<td valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top"><input name="postcode" type="text" id="subject8" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="17"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top" nowrap><p>Information about your<br> establishment<br> i.e. Delivery,<br> special offers etc. </p></td>
<td height="21" valign="top">:</td>
<td colspan="4" rowspan="2" valign="top">

<textarea name="info" cols="47" rows="5" ></textarea> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="62">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="22"></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="24"></td>
<td colspan="3" valign="top"><label>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</label>
<label></label></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top"><input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="31"></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>

Here is the php:

<?
$name=$_POST['name'];
$owner=$_POST['owner'];
$telephone=$_POST['telephone'];
$addressline1=$_POST['addressline1'];
$addressline2=$_POST['addressline2'];
$town=$_POST['town'];
$county=$_POST['county'];
$postcode=$_POST['postcode'];
$info=$_POST['info'];
$to="ali_b71@hotmail.co.uk";
$message="Restraunts Name: $name \n owner: \"$owner\"\n address line 1: $addressline1 \n address line 2: $addressline2 \n Town: $town \n county: $county \n Postcode: $postcode \n About their restraunt: $info";
if(mail($to,"restraunt $name",$message,"From: $name\n")) {
echo "Thanks!";
} else { echo "There was a problem sending your comments. Please check that you filled in the form correctly."; }
?>


and i want to put tick boxes in the form.

Cheers

i know my coding is pretty dire :P im very new to it. basically i want something like this http://everymenu.co.uk/main/add_listing.php (not my site, just an example) i know how to do the text feild but i dont no how to do the tick boxes

<tr>
<td height="19">&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>

tidy up your coding and replace with:
<tr class="spacer"><td colspan="6"></td></tr>

checkbox xhtml
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="NAME!" />

and as for mail scripts first:

change ur form tag to <form name="email" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

This will make your form post into the same document.

Then at the top add:

<?php
foreach($_POST as $key => $value){
$_POST[$key] = addslashes($value);
}
// tidied up the post and made it formatted .
mail(mail arguments);
?>

visit this page for more info on the mail(); command:

http://uk3.php.net/function.mail

Originally Posted by Xi0s <form name="email" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

I would use:
Its simple, short, and works. Of course, thats only if you move the PHP to the same page as the form, which should never been in such a big ugly table.