title: Getting Selected Dropdown content to show in a form-generated email
body: <p>I have a small contact form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>          &lt;form method="post" action="contact.php" name="contactform" id="contactform"&gt;
  
          &lt;fieldset&gt;
  
          &lt;legend&gt;Please fill in the following form to contact us&lt;/legend&gt;
  
          &lt;label for="name"&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Your Name&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="30" value="" /&gt; 
  
          &lt;br /&gt;
  
          &lt;label for="company"&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Company&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input name="company" type="text" id="name" size="30" value="" /&gt; 
  
          &lt;br /&gt;
  
          &lt;label for="email"&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Email&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" value="" /&gt;
  
          &lt;br /&gt;
          &lt;label for="phone"&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Phone&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="30" value="" /&gt;
  
          &lt;br /&gt;
          &lt;label for="purpose"&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Purpose&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;select id="purpose" style="width: 300px; height:35px;"&gt;
               &lt;option value="I am interested in your services"&gt;I am interested in your services!&lt;/option&gt;
               &lt;option value="I am interested in a partnership"&gt;I am interested in a partnership!&lt;/option&gt;
               &lt;option value="I am interested in a job"&gt;I am interested in a job!&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  
          &lt;br /&gt;
          &lt;label for=comments&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Comments&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="3"  id="comments" style="width: 350px;"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  
          &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Please help us control spam.&lt;/p&gt;
  
          &lt;label for=verify accesskey=V&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;3 + 1 =&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input name="verify" type="text" id="verify" size="4" value="" style="width: 30px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  
          &lt;input type="submit" class="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /&gt;
  
          &lt;/fieldset&gt;
  
          &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to send the results of the form in a php generated email. Everything is coming through except the selected contents of the "purpose" drop down.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the PHP:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>if(!$_POST) exit;</p>
  
  <pre><code>$name       = $_POST['name'];
  $company        = $_POST['company'];
      $email      = $_POST['email'];
      $phone      = $_POST['phone'];
      $purpose    = $_POST['purpose'];
      $comments   = $_POST['comments'];
      $verify     = $_POST['verify'];
  
      if(trim($name) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! You must enter your name.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
       } else if(trim($company) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! Please enter your company name.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit(); 
      } else if(trim($email) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! Please enter a valid email address.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
      } else if(trim($phone) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! Please enter a valid phone number.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
      } else if(!isEmail($email)) {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! You have enter an invalid e-mail address, try again.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
      }
  
      if(trim($comments) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! Please enter your message.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
      } else if(trim($verify) == '') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! Please enter the verification number.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();
      } else if(trim($verify) != '4') {
          echo '&lt;div class="error_message"&gt;Attention! The verification number you entered is incorrect.&lt;/div&gt;';
          exit();  
      }
  
      if($error == '') {
  
          if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
              $comments = stripslashes($comments);
          }
  
  
       // Configuration option.
       // Enter the email address that you want to emails to be sent to.
       // Example $address = "joe.doe@yourdomain.com";
  
       $address = "myname@email.com";
  
  
  
  
       // Configuration option.
       // i.e. The standard subject will appear as, "You've been contacted by John Doe."
  
       // Example, $e_subject = '$name . ' has contacted you via Your Website.';
  
       $e_subject = 'You\'ve been contacted by ' . $name . '.';
  
  
       // Configuration option.
       // You can change this if you feel that you need to.
       // Developers, you may wish to add more fields to the form, in which case you must be sure to add them here.
  
       $e_body = "You have been contacted by $name.\r\n\n";
       $e_content = "Comments: \"$comments\"\r\n\n";
       $e_company = "Company: $company\r\n\n";
       $e_purpose = "Reason for contact: $purpose\r\n";
  
       $e_reply = "You can contact $name via email, $email or via phone $phone";
  
       $msg = $e_body . $e_content . $e_company . $e_purpose . $e_reply;
  
       if(mail($address, $e_subject, $msg, "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nReturn-Path: $email\r\n")) {
  
  
       // Email has sent successfully, echo a success page.
  
       echo "&lt;fieldset&gt;";         
       echo "&lt;div id='success_page'&gt;";
       echo "&lt;h1&gt;Email Sent Successfully.&lt;/h1&gt;";
       echo "&lt;p&gt;Thank you &lt;strong&gt;$name&lt;/strong&gt;, your message has been submitted to us.&lt;/p&gt;";
       echo "&lt;/div&gt;";
       echo "&lt;/fieldset&gt;";
  
       } else {
  
       echo 'ERROR!';
  
       }
  
  }
  
  function isEmail($email) { // Email address verification, do not edit.
  
  return(preg_match("/^[-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]])\.)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nt|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$|(([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5])\.){3}([0-9][0-9]?|[0-1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-4][0-9]|[2][5][0-5]))$/i",$email));
  
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I missing? Thanks.</p>