Passed param to mail function.

$name       = $_POST['name'];
$email      = $_POST['email'];
$phone      = $_POST['phone'];
$dept       = $_POST['department'];
$comments   = $_POST['comments'];

if(trim($name) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Please enter your name. Don't be shy!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(trim($email) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Please enter your email address, so we can get back to you!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(!isEmail($email)) {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Invalid e-mail address, try again!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(trim($comments) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">You forgot to enter your message!</div>';
    exit();
} 

if($dept == "audio") {
    $address = "[email protected]"; 
} else if ($dept == "graphics") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "music") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "photography") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "videography") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "development") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "other") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
}

$message = "First line of textnSecond line of text";
$received_subject = "My subject";
if(mail($address, $received_subject, $message)) {

    // Email has sent successfully, echo a success page.

    echo "<h2>Email Sent Successfully.</h2>";
    echo "<p>Thank you <strong>$name</strong>, your message has been sent to us.</p>";
    echo "<p>We will get back to you within 24 hours!</p>";

} else {

    echo '<h2>ERROR!</h2>';

}

I have a contact form with the following fields:

1. Name
2. Email
3. Number
4. Department
5. Message

“Department” is a drop down selection with the seven following options

1. Audio Engineering
2. Graphic Design
3. Music Production
4. Photography
5. Videography
6. Web Development
7. Other

I have been trying to set it up in such a way where the email address that the data is being sent to, changes based on the user’s drop-down selection. For example, if the user selects Option 1, “Audio Engineering“, the email will be sent to “[email protected]“. If the user selects Option 2, “Graphic Design“, the email will be sent to “[email protected]” and so on, upon submission of the form. However, my current code returns an error.

This is my HTML.

<form method="post" action="contact.php" name="contactform" id="contactform">

      <fieldset id="contact_form">
          <label for="name">
              <input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="ENTER YOUR NAME">
          </label>

          <label for="email">
              <input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="ENTER YOUR EMAIL">
          </label>

          <label for="phone">
              <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" placeholder="PHONE NUMBER">
          </label>

          <label for="department">
              <select name="department" id="department" class="cs-select cs-skin-border" required>
                  <option value="" disabled selected>DEPARTMENT</option>
                  <option value="audio">Audio Engineering</option>
                  <option value="graphics">Graphic Design</option>
                  <option value="music">Music Production</option>
                  <option value="photography">Photography</option>
                  <option value="videography">Videography</option>
                  <option value="development">Web Development</option>
                  <option value="other">Other</option>
              </select>
          </label>

          <label for="comments">
              <textarea name="comments" id="comments" placeholder="ENTER YOUR MESSAGE"></textarea>
          </label>

          <input type="submit" class="submit btn btn-default btn-black" id="submit" value="Submit">
      </fieldset>

</form>

This is the snippet of my PHP where I use if statements to change emails based on selection.

<?php

$name       = $_POST['name'];
$email      = $_POST['email'];
$phone      = $_POST['phone'];
$dept       = $_POST['department'];
$comments   = $_POST['comments'];

if(trim($name) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Please enter your name. Don't be shy!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(trim($email) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Please enter your email address, so we can get back to you!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(!isEmail($email)) {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">Invalid e-mail address, try again!</div>';
    exit();
} else if(trim($comments) == '') {
    echo '<div class="error_message" style="color: #de493e; font-weight: 700;">You forgot to enter your message!</div>';
    exit();
} 

if($dept == "audio") {
    $address = "[email protected]"; 
} else if ($dept == "graphics") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "music") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "photography") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "videography") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "development") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
} else if ($dept == "other") {
    $address = "[email protected]";
}

if(mail($address, $received_subject, $message, $header)) {

    // Email has sent successfully, echo a success page.

    echo "<h2>Email Sent Successfully.</h2>";
    echo "<p>Thank you <strong>$name</strong>, your message has been sent to us.</p>";
    echo "<p>We will get back to you within 24 hours!</p>";

} else {

    echo '<h2>ERROR!</h2>';

}

?>

This unfortunately returns “ERROR!” and i’m not sure why.

I would also like to return an error message if no selection is made.