Dynamic form posting

[Jxck]

I have a site that produces form's from a table called 'form_parts' this the dictates what type of field it is, what the ghost text is and its ID etc. I then display this on pages that have 'link to form' active. I hope to then process this to mail it via the PHP mail function. However I don't know how to dynamically pull the fields (will be different fields for every page) and then email them as a content. Here is my existing code, I can't even get it to mail with basic hard coded contents.

$mail is defined in an include file that is required by the file that requires this file. It is the users email address. A lot of the code has been changed but I haven't changed the commenting from my original non-dynamic method which seemingly worked fine.

<?php
//A temp check to see if the field 'Full Name' was completed before submission. What needs to happen is a check of all mandatory fields and highlight incomplete ones

if(isset($_REQUEST['submit'])){

//Basic information in order to send the email, for now the 'admin_email' is the track it monitor

$admin_email ="*";

//This pulls all the information that is required and not optional or based on another selection.


//Sending the mail function
mail($admin_email,"Testing self service.","testing","From:". $mail);

//The action performed after sending the email, in this case a dismissable balloon alert.
echo "Thank you for contacting us!";
}

else{
?>
<formmethod="post">
<divclass='panel panel-default'>
<divclass='panel-body'id='form'>
<?php

$getFormQuery ="SELECT id,type,sortno,dropdownid,contentid,label,shadowtext,active FROM form_parts WHERE contentid = $contentid AND active = 1 ORDER BY sortno ASC"ordie("Error!:". mysqli_error($link));
$getForm = $link->query($getFormQuery);

while($formInfo = mysqli_fetch_array($getForm)){

$label = $formInfo["label"];
$ftype = $formInfo["type"];
$shadowtext = $formInfo["shadowtext"];

if(($ftype)=="Text"){
echo "<label>$label</label>";
echo "<br><center><input type='text' class='form-control' placeholder='$shadowtext'></center><br>";
}
if(($ftype)=="Date"){
echo "<label>$label</label>";
echo "<br><center><input type='date' class='form-control' placeholder='$shadowtext'></center><br>";
}
}

?>
<br>
<inputtype="submit"class="btn btn-success"value="Submit">
</div></div>
</form>

<?php
}
?>

 

[BIOS]

What even is this for? I don't understand what outcome you are trying to get as the result of this

Why are you setting the type of input via the db?

 

[Ecko]

I can't even get it to mail with basic hard coded contents.

Check with your host if mail() is disabled. Many hosts do this and require SMTP authentication in mail scripts.

 

[Weasel]

Your input fields don't have a name="" element. So, they can't be identified when you submit the form. Besides it's form method and not formmethod. Same for div class and not divclass.

 

[Jxck]

@BIOS The purpose of this is to be able to create forms on pages and have those forms submitted to an email address that then deals with it via a software suite called Track It

@eckostylez SMTP is on and working through our internal Exchange server.

@JohnDorian I realise that but I can't name them as each form will have different input fields, some may only have one or two others could have up to 20 so how do I make it so whatever number of fields or whatever name it submits them all?

 

[Ecko]

@eckostylez SMTP is on and working through our internal Exchange server.

Doesn't mean PHP's mail() function could be disabled. PHP's mail() function does not send through SMTP, it uses sendmail