Drop down list values

Hi,

I've successfully added a drop down list and added both spry and VTK validation. I have successfully sent the email and received it. So all is well apert from one thing:

The drop down list is populated from a dynamic list from a recordset. It has an ID that is auto-incremented. So I end up with

Value Label
1 Subject one
2 Subject two
3 Subject three etc

All basic stuff. The problem is that the email is sending the VALUE rather than the LABEL

So in the email it says:

Subject: 1

for example rather than

Subject: Subject one.

How do I alter that, so that it sends the lable rather than the value?

Many thanks.

A drop down list will only ever send the value, it cannot send the label. the simple solution is to use the same recordset column for bot the value and the label.

another option is to create a hidden form element and add javascript to the onchange event of the list to populate the hidden form element with the selcted label. here is an example:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">  
    <select name="select" id="select" onChange="document.form1.hiddenField.value = document.form1.select[document.form1.select.selectedIndex].text">
      <option>Make a Selection</option>
      <option value="1">one</option>
      <option value="2">two</option>
      <option value="3">three</option>
      <option value="4">four</option>
    </select>
    <input type="hidden" name="hiddenField" id="hiddenField"><br />
    <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit">
</form>

Hi Jason, thanks for the reply.

I didn't explain the full picture in my question as I thought your answer would point me in the right direction.

This recordset that populates the dropdown also has an email address associated with each subject. My idea being that you can choose a subject and that email would go to a specific recipient. Bearing in mind the full picture is there a way to do it all? Like "What's your query to do with?", "Sales", OK then choose "Sales" and the form will be submitted to the sales department.

for that you will need to create a switch case statement to select which email address to use in universal Email. The example code below is based on the select list being named "select"

<?php

switch($_POST["select"]) {

  case 1:

    $email = "sales@email.com";

    break;

  case 2:

    $email = "support@email.com";

    break;

  case 3:

    $email = "marketing@email.com";

    break;

  default:

    $email = "sales@email.com";

    break; 

}

?>

then modify the universal Email code to use the $email variable:

$RecipientEmail = "".($email)  ."";include("WA_Universal_Email/WAUE_contact_1.php");

Thanks Jason, I'll look into that.