Creating custom email output using IF..ELSE..statements from checkboxes

Hi,

I have a form which gets email using Universal Email 4. All is working. However, there are several checkboxes on my form and if they're not checked I want to display a message in my email. I've used an IF..ELSE statement in my Universal Email page. If the check box is checked the value of the check box is written in the email body, if it's not it's supposed to display a different message, but instead the field is left blank.

I've done this kind of thing hundreds of times before but I can't for the life of me work out why it's not working this time?

I've attached the UE files and the form page file in the zip.

insted of using echo:

if ($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"] == "") {

        echo ("No experience");    

    }

    else {

        echo ((isset($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]))?$_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]:"");

    }

you need to append to the $MailBody string:

if ($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"] == "") {

        $MailBody = $MailBody . "No experience";    

    }

    else {

        $MailBody = $MailBody . ((isset($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]))?$_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]:"");

    }

Brilliant. I can't believe I missed that.
It works perfectly now. Thank you very much for the fast response Jason.

you're welcome.

Hi again,

This was working for me with the fix you suggested last week, but now it's not working again. I tried to get it to work with the other fields in my form and that's when it stopped working so I reverted it back to the single field you helped me with last week, but now that's not working either, no matter what I try I cannot get the email to write 'Not experienced' if the user doesn't tick the box for merchandising????

I've been stuck on this for about 2 hours now. I've attached the current files I'm working with you - would you be able to help me again Jason?

try this:

if ($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"] != "Experienced") { 

        $MailBody = $MailBody . "No experience";     

    } 

    else { 

        $MailBody = $MailBody . ((isset($_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]))?$_POST["MerchandisingExperience"]:""); 

    }

Hi Jason,

I tried your amended code but it's still not working. If the checkbox is left un-ticked nothing shows up in the email??

I'm working directly in code view in the waue_freelancer-registration_1.php file. I made the changes then selected the main page file to upload via ftp (freelancer-registration.php) with related files set to upload automatically. I noticed in the FTP log that it didn't transfer the waue_freelancer-registration_1.php file even though I'd just made changes, it said 'same, not transferred' in the status report, so I manually uploaded the file.

One other thing I've noticed is that if I try to edit the contents of the email through the Universal Email interface there is no 'if..then..else' code in the email page. I think it's using this code rather than the code I'm manually typing in without using UE as this code simply says write the value of the form field in the email, which if not checked is blank. Would you agree?

if that ois not working, then the change is not being uploaded to the server correctly.

delete the file from the server, then test the email again. You should get an error message that the file does not exist. Then upload your changes again and test again. This should fix the file does not exist error, and make sure that the changes are being uploaded.

never trust Dreamweaver to put dependent files.

If you know a file needs to go up to the server, do it it yourself rather than relying on Dreamweaver.