PHP - How Can I Get The Value Of A Switch Case Coming From The Drop Down Form?

Hi,

I have been using an old contact form for a while now, this is it:
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<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  switch($_POST['contact_type']) {
      case 'Customer':
      $to = '...@gmail.com';
      break;
case 'HQ';
      $to = '...@gmail.com';
      break;  
    case 'Office 2':
      $to = '...@gmail.com';
      break;
    case 'Office 3':
      $to ='...@gmail.com';
      break;
   case 'Office 4':
      $to = '...@gmail.com'; 
      break;
    case 'Office 5':
      $to = '...@gmail.com'; 
      break;
  }
 
  $subject = "WEBSITE ENQUIRY";
  $name_field = $_POST['name'];
  $email_field = $_POST['email'];
  $message = $_POST['message'];
 
  if (strlen(trim($message)) > 0) {
 
    $body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Message:\n $message";
 
    if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
      echo "<h3>Thanks! Your email has been sent <br />We will answer your enquiry as soon as possible.</h3>";
    } else {
      echo 'Cannot sent mail';
    }
  } else {
    echo "<h3>Error! <br />Please ensure that all fields are filled out in order to email us!</h3>";
  } 
} else {
  echo "blarg!";
}
?>



I recently extended the form with HTML5 etc and got a new form script, which makes a lot of improvements with the PHP.

I want to put this on a site I am working on. The current form has an contact type pull down which changes the destination of the submitted form.  It looks like this:

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<?php
if( isset($_POST) ){

//form validation vars
$formok = true;
$errors = array();

//sumbission data
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$date = date('d/m/Y');
$time = date('H:i:s');

//form data
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$enquiry = $_POST['enquiry'];
$product = $_POST['product'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

//validate form data

//validate name is not empty
if(empty($name)){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "You have not entered a name";
}

//validate email address is not empty
if(empty($email)){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "You have not entered an email address";
//validate email address is valid
}elseif(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "You have not entered a valid email address";
}


//validate company is not empty
if(empty($company)){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "You have not entered a name";
}

//validate message is not empty
if(empty($message)){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "You have not entered a message";
}
//validate message is greater than 20 charcters
elseif(strlen($message) < 20){
$formok = false;
$errors[] = "Your message must be greater than 20 characters";
}

//send email if all is ok
if($formok){
$headers = "From: user@mysite.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

$emailbody = "<p>You have recieved a new message from the enquiries form on your website.</p>
  <p><strong>Name: </strong> {$name} </p>
  <p><strong>Email Address: </strong> {$email} </p>
  <p><strong>Telephone: </strong> {$telephone} </p>
  <p><strong>Company: </strong> {$company} </p>
  <p><strong>Enquiry: </strong> {$enquiry} </p>

  <p><strong>Product of Interest: </strong> {$product} </p>

  <p><strong>Message: </strong> {$message} </p>
  <p>This message was sent from the IP Address: {$ipaddress} on {$date} at {$time}</p>";

mail("....@gmail.com","New Enquiry",$emailbody,$headers);

}

//what we need to return back to our form
$returndata = array(
'posted_form_data' => array(
'name' => $name,
'email' => $email,
'telephone' => $telephone,
'company' => $company,
'enquiry' => $enquiry,
'product' => $product,
'message' => $message
),
'form_ok' => $formok,
'errors' => $errors
);


//if this is not an ajax request
if(empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) !== 'xmlhttprequest'){
//set session variables
session_start();
$_SESSION['cf_returndata'] = $returndata;

//redirect back to form
header('location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
}
}



As you can see the new php form is much better, validates each field etc...

I am having issues getting the case and switch statement into my new form though, can anyone please advise where to put it / what I need to take out to make it work? Its an important part of the form I need to make.

Any help would be much appreciated.

can i do something like this?

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<?php
switch ($i) {
    case 0:
        echo "i equals 0";?>
////////////// html stuff ////////
<?php
        break;
    case 1:
        echo "i equals 1"; ?>
///////////////////html stuff//////////////
<?php
        break;
    case 2:
        echo "i equals 2"; ?>
////////////html stuff///////////////
<?php
        break;
}
?>

Hello, I am having a small issue with a case switch array that uses a range of data. I am using it to set the background of table cells depending on the data. I.E. 0-0.9, 1-1.9 etc with each one being a different color. Issue I am having is it doesn't change. It sets it based on the first array entry. What might I be missing? This is the first time I have used a case switch with a range.    -Thanks

$magScale = '';

           switch($magnitude)
{
              case myInterval >= 0 && myInterval <= 0.9: $magScale = 'rgb(195, 218, 236)';
                             break;
              case myInterval >= 1 && myInterval <= 1.9: $magScale = 'rgb(210, 238, 197)';
                             break;
              case myInterval >= 2 && myInterval <= 2.9: $magScale = 'rgb(244, 240, 202)';
                             break;
              case myInterval >= 3 && myInterval <= 3.9: $magScale = 'rgb(244, 223, 202)';
                             break;
              case myInterval >= 4 && myInterval <= 4.9: $magScale = 'rgb(240, 199, 205)';
                             break;
              case myInterval >= 5 && myInterval <= 10:  $magScale = 'rgb(212, 195, 236)';
                             break;

}

Hi, I have the following code:

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<?php

$cmd = $_GET['cmd'];

if($cmd=="") { $cmd = "adminlogin";}

// This creates the header for each of the installation pages


switch($cmd)
{

// This is the installation agreement page

case "adminlogin":
print <<<LOGIN

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Member Site Maker 1.0</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="head" align="center">
  <h1 id="siteName">Member Site Maker </h1>
  <br />
<table align="center" border="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td align="center"><span class=style1><b>ADMIN LOGIN</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<form action=admin.php?cmd=manage method=POST>
Password: <input type=text name=password1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type=submit name=submit value=Submit>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

LOGIN;

break;


// Managing Users

case "manage":

include_once("header.html");

include_once("data/password.php");

$password1 = $_POST['password1'];
$password2 = base64_decode($password);

if ($password1 != $password2) {

print <<<BADLOGIN

<table width=953 border=1 align=center bgcolor=#00CCFF>
  <tr>
    <td><span class=style1><b><center>Failed Login</center></b></span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><span class=style2>Your passwords do not match. Please go back and correct this error</td>
</tr>
</table>

BADLOGIN;

} else {

echo <<<MANAGE

<!--end navBar2 div -->
<div id="navBar2">

<div id="sectionLinks">
  <ul>
      <li><a href="admin.php?cmd=manage&password1=$password1">Manage</a></li>
      <li><a href="admin.php?cmd=dashboard&password1=$password1">Dashboard</a></li>
      <li><a href="admin.php?cmd=approval&password1=$password1">Approval</a></li>
      <li><a href="admin.php?cmd=msgcentre&password1=$password1">Message Center</a></li>
      <li><a href="admin.php?cmd=logins&password1=$password1">Logins</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
</div>
<!--end navBar2 div -->
<div id="content">
  <div class="story">
    <table width="100%" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Login</span></div></td>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Name</span></div></td>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Last Visited </span></div></td>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Registration Date </span></div></td>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Reset Password </span></div></td>
        <td bgcolor="#99FF66"><div align="center"><span class="style3">Delete</span></div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <h3>&nbsp;</h3>
  </div>
  
</div>
<!--end content -->

MANAGE;

}
break;

case "dashboard":


break;

case "approval":


break;
This works fine for when viewing the admin.php, I am asked for a password and then it compares the password against the encoded password before displaying the manage page.

However this does not stop someone typing http://www.mysite.com/folder/admin.php?cmd=dashboard

If they do that, it skips the password form and password check, and they can then go ahead and do whatever in the admin.php file.

How can I prevent this, so that a password check is automatically done before allowing somebody to view the page? I have tried adding the code I used in the manage section, but it doesnt work again.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, I been trying to work it out all day and run out of ideas.

Many Thanks

I'm testing out small bits of code for myself, and I'm trying to understand why this isn't coming out how I would imagine it to...

I have my function which stores colors in an array from a text file, then I return back a random color from my array like so...

function getColor() {
$ball_color = explode("\n", file_get_contents('colors.txt')); // Takes file contents and stores them into an array.
return $ball_color[array_rand($ball_color)];
}

And now in the main program, I simply have this:

$color = getColor();
switch($color) {
Case "blue":
     // echo stuff
        break;
    Case "red":
     // echo stuff
        break;
    etc... 
}



For some reason though, my switch statement always reads the default case, making me assume that the words "blue" "red" "green" etc... aren't matching up to what I have set the cases at. When I output what color is actually being read, it displays exactly as it should, so I don't understand why the case "red" isn't opening up when that color is chosen, or same with any of the other colors.

Is there some small conflict I'm unaware of in this tiny practice code? Any help is appreciated, thanks.