Drop-down menu for email subject line in contact form

[lastmiracle]

Hello! First off, I'm completely new to PHP and especially Zen Cart. The client wanted me to help fix a badly customized site, and I'm stuck at this.

I need to make a drop-down menu with subject selections (e.g., Orders Inquiry, Product Info Request, etc.), that will insert into into the subject line of the email.

From digging through the forum, I found the solution separately only each of the tasks (1. how to set up a drop-down menu -- kinda; 2. how to insert subject line through a text input box). I don't know how to combine them together

I added: ENTRY_DESCRIPTION and changed EMAIL_SUBJECT in contact_us.php:

define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'JHL Style:' .$description);
define('ENTRY_DESCRIPTION', 'Subject:'); 

I found out about zen_draw_pull_down_menu and I tried to use it but I have no clue how to...

<label class="inputLabel" for="subject"><?php echo ENTRY_DESCRIPTION; ?></label><br class="clearBoth" />
<?php echo zen_draw_pull_down_menu('description', ($error ? $_POST['name'] : $description), ' size="50"'); ?>

These are the options I want to add to the list:

<select name="description">
<option value="Order Inquiries">Order Inquiries</option>
<option value="Returns & Exchanges">Returns & Exchanges</option>
<option value="Product Questions">Product Questions</option>
<option value="Find Your Essence">Find Your Essence</option>
<option value="Other Inquiries">Other</option>
</select>

Thank you in advance for any insight!

Here's the link to the form. It's so messy.

[stevesh]

There's a mod in the Free Sofware Add Ons that adds a Subject line to the Contact Us form. You might be able to add a dropdown to that.

A little more information about the business issue you're trying to address would help, too. When I've wanted to have various Contact Us messages go to different places, I've just used a different email address for each, created them in Admin - Configuration - Email Options - Set "Contact Us" Email Dropdown List and done the sorting at the receiving end.

[DrByte]

Instead if you simply add email addresses to the Contact Us Pulldown setting (Admin->Configuration->Email Options), you can direct those emails to different email addresses instead of fussing with any custom coding for subject lines. Assuming the code hasn't already been altered.

[lastmiracle]

Thanks guys. I am aware of the email-to option, but the client wanted everything to be pointed to just one email address with different subject line..

[lastmiracle]

Here's an update, just for future references for other people who stumble on this:

It's MUCH easier to set up multiple e-mail addresses per DrByte's suggestion. Here's how:

Go to Admin->Configuration->Email Options, click Edit and type in:

Subject1 <[email protected]>, Subject2 <[email protected]>, Subject3 <[email protected]>

And it will show up automatically as a pull-down menu on your contact form, given that you didn't make any changes to /includes/templates/CUSTOM/templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php, where the default codes for the pull-down menu resides:

<label class="inputLabel" for="send-to"><?php echo SEND_TO_TEXT; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_pull_down_menu('send_to',  $send_to_array, 0, 'id="send-to"') . '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_REQUIRED_SYMBOL . '</span>'; ?>

And you can change the default label for the list from "Send to Email" to anything, like "Subject", in /includes/languages/english/contact_us.php :

define('SEND_TO_TEXT','Change your label here'); 

Hope this helps!

[DrByte]

Make sure to put any language or template alterations into an appropriate override foldername, instead of editing the original files directly.