I have an html form and inside of it i have a drop down option to choose a state
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- <select name="State">
- <option value="0" selected="selected">Select a State</option>
- <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
- <option value="AK">Alaska</option>
- <option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
- <option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
- etc.....
- </select>
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- +-----------+-------+---------------+
- | stateip_id| state | user_ip |
- +-----------+-------+---------------+
- | 1 | AL | 67.100.244.74 |
- | 2 | AK | 68.20.131.135 |
- | 3 | AZ | 64.134.225.33 |
- +-----------+-------+---------------+
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- <?php
- // visit http://php.net/pdo for more details
- // start error handling
- try
- {
- $Server = "00.00.000.000,0000";
- $User = "username";
- $Pass = "password";
- $DB = "dbname";
- //connection to the database
- $dbhandle = mssql_connect($Server, $User, $Pass)
- or die("Couldn't connect to SQL Server on $Server");
- //select a database to work with
- $selected = mssql_select_db($DB, $dbhandle)
- or die("Couldn't open database $DB");
- $state = $_POST['State'];
- $query = "SELECT TOP 1 user_ip
- FROM state_ip
- WHERE state='$state'
- ORDER BY newid()";
- //execute the SQL query and return records
- $result = mssql_query($query);
- $numRows = mssql_num_rows($result);
- echo "<h1>" . $numRows . " Row" . ($numRows == 1 ? "" : "s") . " Returned </h1>";
- //display the results
- while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result));
- }
- catch (Exception $e)
- {
- echo "sorry, there was an error.";
- mail("email@gmail.com", "database error", $e->getMessage(), "From: email@gmail.com");
- }
- if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
- // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
- $email_to = "email@gmail.com";
- $email_subject = "This is a test";
- function died($error) {
- // your error code can go here
- echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
- echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
- echo $error."<br /><br />";
- echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
- die();
- }
- // validation expected data exists
- if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
- !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
- !isset($_POST['email']) ||
- !isset($_POST['what']) ||
- !isset($_POST['State']) ||
- !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
- died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
- }
- $what = $_POST['what']; // required
- $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
- $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
- $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
- $state = $_POST['State']; // not required
- $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
- $error_message = "";
- $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
- if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
- $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
- }
- $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
- if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
- $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
- }
- if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
- $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
- }
- if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
- $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
- }
- if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
- died($error_message);
- }
- $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
- function clean_string($string) {
- $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
- return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
- }
- $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
- $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
- $email_message .= "What: ".clean_string($what)."\n";
- $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
- $email_message .= "State: ".clean_string($state)."\n";
- $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
- // create email headers
- $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
- 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
- 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
- if (!mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers))
- {
- echo "failed to send message";
- }
- ?>
- <!-- include your own success html here -->
- Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
- <?php
- }
- ?>
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- $email_message .= "State: ".clean_string($state)."\n";
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- $email_message .= "State: ".clean_string('user_ip')."\n";
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- First Name: afdf
- Last Name: sfgsdf
- What: hellow
- Email: sd@fd.com
- State: AL
- Comments: ali alabama2
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- First Name: afdf
- Last Name: sfgsdf
- What: hellow
- Email: sd@fd.com
- State: 123.456.1.21
- Comments: ali alabama2