Not getting values from an array of checkboxes

Question

In this form I'm building I'm having an issue getting the array to list in the email that is received by the site owner upon submission of the form. Here is the how the received email looks:

Company: Company Name
First Name: Bob
Last Name: Jones
E-mail: email@gmail.com
Phone: 123-652-9658
Street Address: 123 Main Street
City: Albany
State: NY
Zip: 12345
Areas of Interest:
Number of windows / Doors: 6
How did you hear about our company? google bing
Additional Information: hi

Here is the form code:


         Company: 
        First Name:* 
        Last Name:* 
        Email:* 
        Phone:* 
        Street Address:* 
        City:* 
        State:* 
        Zip:* 
        Areas of Interest:*


           Heat Reduction

             UV/Fading

             Wall Finishes

             Sun Control

             Safety/Security Film

             Graphics

              Decorative Film

             Wall Murals

            Number of windows / Doors: 

 How did you hear about our company?            

        Additional Information:

Here is the PHP to run the form:

";
}}}




$company = filter_var($_POST['company'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$firstname = filter_var($_POST['firstname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$lastname = filter_var($_POST['lastname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$phone = filter_var($_POST['phone'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$street = filter_var($_POST['street'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$city = filter_var($_POST['city'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$state = filter_var($_POST['state'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$zip = filter_var($_POST['zip'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$doors = filter_var($_POST['doors'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$hear = filter_var($_POST['hear'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$info = filter_var($_POST['info'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

$site_owners_email = 'email@gmail.com'; // Replace this with your own email address
$site_owners_name = 'Client Name'; // replace with your name
$site_owners_name_from = 'Free Estimate Submission';

if (strlen($firstname) < 2) {
    $error['firstname'] = "Please enter your first name";
}

if (strlen($lastname) < 2) {
    $error['lastname'] = "Please enter your last name";
}

if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9&\'\.\-_\+]+@[a-z0-9\-]+\.([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*+[a-z]{2}/is', $email)) {
    $error['email'] = "Please enter a valid email address";
}

if (strlen($phone) < 3) {
    $error['phone'] = "Please enter your phone number.";
}

if (!$error) {

    require_once('phpMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
    $mail = new PHPMailer();

    $mail->From = $email;
    $mail->FromName = $site_owners_name_from;
    $mail->Subject = "Form Submission";
    $mail->AddAddress($site_owners_email, $site_owners_name);
    $mail->IsHTML(true);
    $mail->Body = 'The estimate form on your website, 3Msecurityfilm.com, has been filled out.'. '

'. 'Company: '. $company . '
First Name: '. $firstname . '
Last Name: '. $lastname .'
E-mail: '. $email .'
Phone: '. $phone .'
Street Address: '. $street .'
City: '. $city . '
State: '. $state . '
Zip: '. $zip . '
Areas of Interest: '. $selected . '
Number of windows / Doors: '. $doors . '
How did you hear about our company? '. $hear . '
Additional Information: '. $info;



    $mail->Send();

    echo "Thanks " . $firstname . ". Your message has been sent.";

} # end if no error
else {

    $response = (isset($error['firstname'])) ? "" . $error['firstname'] . " 
" : null;
    $response .= (isset($error['email'])) ? "" . $error['email'] . " 
" : null;
    $response .= (isset($error['phone'])) ? "" . $error['phone'] . "" : null;

    echo $response;
} # end if there was an error sending

?>

user1544337 · Accepted Answer

The code

// Loop to store and display values of individual checked checkbox.
foreach($_POST['check_list'] as $selected){
    echo $selected."
";
}

seems a bit odd to me. This displays all the values all right, but does not store them. After this loop, $selected will have as value the last element of the array. So, nothing is stored, what the comment suggests.

In the body of your mail, you're using $selected. This has some arbitrary value from the array, or is uninitialised if the array was empty. What you could do instead is implode(', ', $_POST['check_list']), which joins the elements of the array with commas in between (i.e. [4,7,8] becomes "4, 7, 8").

If that still doesn't work, the value isn't properly passed into $_POST. You could do a var_dump($_POST) in the top of your file to see if the check_list values actually appear there. You can include the output of that var dump in your question if you need help with it.

Not getting values from an array of checkboxes

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