While writing my website I encountered the following Problem: On the first page, you can enter some data like names, dates, addresses etc. In addition, there are a few checkboxes with fixed data. After filling out the form I want it to get sent to my e-mail, which is working for the most part.
<?php
//subject of the e-mail
$subject = "Test";
// the message
$msg = "Antragssteller: " . $_POST['ANachname'] . ", " . $_POST['AVorname'] . "<br>E-Mail: " . $_POST['AMail'] . "<br><br>" .
"Testperson: " . $_POST['MNachname'] . ", " . $_POST['MVorname'] . "<br>Adresse: " . $_POST['Adresse'] . "<br><br>";
// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
// send email
sendMailInt($subject, $msg);
?>
Now I want to add some input with checkboxes on my website, which also works up to a certain point.
<?php
//subject of the e-mail
$subject = "Test";
// the message
$msg = "Antragssteller: " . $_POST['ANachname'] . ", " . $_POST['AVorname'] . "<br>E-Mail: " . $_POST['AMail'] . "<br><br>" .
"Testperson: " . $_POST['MNachname'] . ", " . $_POST['MVorname'] . "<br>Adresse: " . $_POST['Adresse'] . "<br><br>" .
"checkbox1: " . $_POST['checkbox1'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox2: " . $_POST['checkbox2'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox3: " . $_POST['checkbox3'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox4: " . $_POST['checkbox4'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox5: " . $_POST['checkbox5'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox6: " . $_POST['checkbox6'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox7: " . $_POST['checkbox7'] . "<br>" .
"checkbox8: " . $_POST['checkbox8'] . "<br>" .
;
// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
// send email
sendMailInt($subject, $msg);
?>
Specifically for the checkbox input, I want to have something like an if-statement to check if the box has been checked or not. If a box is unchecked, the value is empty, which means I have an empty line in my e-mail. Since I have around 20 checkboxes, it can get a bit messy in the e-mail, if 10 boxes in a row are unchecked.
I tried writing the $msg =
as HTML mail and adding PHP code into it, but then my website stopped working (went completely blank, an error I encountered a few times before, when using wrong code)
<?php
//subject of the e-mail
$subject = "Test";
// the message
$msg = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Mail</title>
<body>
<?php
echo "Antragssteller: " . $_POST['ANachname'] . ", " . $_POST['AVorname'] . "<br>E-Mail: " . $_POST['AMail'] . "<br><br>" .
"Testperson: " . $_POST['MNachname'] . ", " . $_POST['MVorname'] . "<br>Adresse: " . $_POST['Adresse'] . "<br><br>";
if ($_POST['checkbox1'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox1'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox2'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox2'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox3'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox3'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox4'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox4'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox5'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox5'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox6'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox6'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox7'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox7'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
if ($_POST['checkbox8'] == true)
echo $_POST['checkbox8'] . "<br>";
else
echo "";
?>
</body>
</html>
";
// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
// send email
sendMailInt($subject, $msg);
?>
Is there any way to skip empty variables in the mailer variable, so that the mail that gets sent looks clean without holes?
Looking forward to hearing from you guys and thanks in advance.