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JTrue
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April 23, 2009
Question

Defining form recipients by CFSWITCH?

  • April 23, 2009
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I am working with a form that has several check boxes on it. All of the check boxes have the same name so when the form processes I get a response like, check1,check2,check3 etc...

I want to set this up so that depending on what box(es) are checked different e-mail addresses will receive the form data.

I had tried using CFIF statements like with each checkbox individually named.

<cfif #FORM.check01# is "one">

<cfset emailRecip01="one@address.com">

</cfif>


<cfif #FORM.check02# is "two">

<cfset emailRecip02="two@address.com">

</cfif>


<cfif #FORM.check03# is "three">

<cfset emailRecip03="three@address.com">

</cfif>


<cfmail to="#emailRecip01# #emailRecip02# #emailRecip03#"

subject="Form Response"

from="server@address.com"

type="html">

This works fine if there is one address per checkbox, but I have two addresses and 11 check boxes.

Because of this I tried to use a CFSWITCH command and setup the following commands (shortened for this post).

<cfswitch expression="#FORM.checkBox#">

<cfcase value="one;two" delimiterters=";">

    <cfset eAddress1="one@address.com">

    </cfcase>

    <cfcase value="three" delimiters=";">

    <cfset eAddress2="two@address.com">

    </cfcase>

    <cfdefaultcase>

    <cfset eAddress1="three@address.com">

    <cfset eAddress2="">

    </cfdefaultcase>

</cfswitch>


<cfmail to="#eAddress1# #eAddress2#"

subject="Form Response"

from="server@address.com"

type="html">

I am only receiving e-mails at the <cfdefaultcase> address. Why is this not working?

Thanks,
Jeremiah

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    JTrueAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 27, 2009

    Hi, I actually was able to find a solution based on both your suggestions. Instead of using listfind, I used list length and separated the check boxes into two groups, checkbox1 and checkbox2. Then I used CFSET to check the length of the string returned, delimited by commas. From this I was able to write conditional statements, code below.

    <cfset listLength01 = ListLen("#FORM.checkBox1#", ",")>

    <cfset listLength02 = ListLen("#FORM.checkBOx2#", ",")>



    <cfif #listLength01# GREATER THAN "0">

    <cfset emailRecip01="address1@server.com">

    </cfif>


    <cfif #listLength02# GREATER THAN "0">

    <cfset emailRecip02="address2@server.com">

    </cfif>


    <cfif #listLength01# is "0" and #listLength02 is "0">

    <cfset emailRecip01="address3@server.com">

    </cfif>

    <cfmail to="#emailRecip01#,#emailRecip02#"

    subject="Form response"

    from="cfserver@server.com"

    type="html">

    Thanks to both of you both of your help!

    Jeremiah

    ilssac
    ilssac
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    As mentioned above <cfswitch...> is probably not what you want here.  <cfswitch...> is not a loop it does not check multiple values.  It checks a single value agains multple choices.  All it really is short hand for an if|elseif|else block where the same expression is compared against different values for every branch.

    You will need logic or functions that compares each value in the form list.

    D
    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    If sample values are check1,check2,check3,

    and your cfcase is looking for values like:

    <cfcase value="one;two" delimiterters=";">

    You will never get a match.

    Switch/case is not going to give you what you want anyway.  You'll need to use listfind() or something similar.

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