< form >< select >< option > with two "value"-attribute... 1

[Lupo]

hi,

I have on my site a contact-

<form>

. this contact-

<form>

contains among other things a "list of value" (

<select>

-area) with approx. 190

<option>

-tags (it's a country list). each

<option>

-tag contains one value e.g.

<select name=&quot;country&quot;>
<option value selected></option>
<option value=&quot;a&quot;>A</option>
<option value=&quot;bb&quot;>BB</option>
....
<option value=&quot;zzzz&quot;>ABCDE</option>
</select>

the numbers of characters wihtin the

value

-attribute are different (1 - n). I hand over the content of the

value

-attribute to a cdonts-mail function asp-file (

sendmail.asp

). basing on this

value

-attribute the email should be sent to one of 2 different email-addresses.

Is there any possibility to handover two values of the above mentioned

<select>

-area to the

sendmail.asp

file? One of the

value

-attribute should contain the real country name and a 2nd

value

should contain an attribute for the selection of the email-address.

If it's not possible to do like this, what other solution would you recommend?

Thanks in advance for your help.

regards Lupo

WEB Designer & WEB Developer (as per my working contract) and ASP Newbie

 

[cfk]

Page 1

<option value=&quot;<%= email %>^<%= someothervalue %>&quot;>oisefj

Page 2

DIM optionSplit
optionSplit = SPLIT(REQUEST.FORM(&quot;selectField&quot,&quot;^&quot
'the email = optionSplit(0)
'and the other value is optionSplit(1)

 

[Lupo]

Hi cfk,

thx for yr tip. the coding within page 1 (contact.asp) works great. See the generated source code below.

  <select name=&quot;country&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;>
    <option value=emailaddr_1@mydomaine.com^Antarctica>Antarctica</option>
  ...
  </select>

Unfortunatelly, the code within page 2 (send_mail.asp) won't work. his the correct writting:

  'Set the response buffer to true so we execute all asp code before sending the HTML to the clients browser
  Response.Buffer = True

  'Dimension variables
  Dim strBody                'Holds the body of the e-mail
  Dim objCDOMail             'Holds the mail server object
  Dim strMyEmailAddress      'Holds your e-mail address
  Dim strCCEmailAddress      'Holds any carbon copy e-mail addresses
  Dim strBCCEmailAddress     'Holds any blind copy e-mail addresses
  Dim strReturnEmailAddress  'Holds the return e-mail address of the user

  DIM optionSplit
  optionSplit(0) = SPLIT(REQUEST.FORM("Country"),"^")
  optionSplit(1) = SPLIT(REQUEST.FORM("Country"),"^")

  '--- Place your e-mail address in the following sting ---
  strMyEmailAddress = "optionSplit(0)"
  ...

Do I have a problem or am I the problem? Would be very glad if you could check out the code of page 2 (sendmail.asp).

thx in advance. rgds Lupo

btw, if it would help, I could send you the two a.m. files. WEB Designer & WEB Developer (as per my working contract) and ASP Newbie

 

[AncientTiger]

Lupo, your Split is all wrong friend.

Instead of
====================================================
DIM optionSplit
optionSplit(0) = SPLIT(REQUEST.FORM(&quot;Country&quot,&quot;^&quot
optionSplit(1) = SPLIT(REQUEST.FORM(&quot;Country&quot,&quot;^&quot
====================================================

try
====================================================
DIM optionSplit
optionSplit = Split(Request.Form(&quot;Country&quot,&quot;^&quot
====================================================

The Split method automatically populates the optionSplit array starting at element 0. So after the method executes, your optionSplit array would look like this:

optionSplit(0) = youremailaddy
optionSplit(1) = theothervalue

Clear as mud?
AT

 

[Guest_imported]

how the heck does this work!