How to pass checkbox selections to php mailer form? - php

Question

The checkbox fields are not passing to my email from my html form.
When a user fills in the form all the information is received in my email (user name, email, phone, comments) except for the boxes they checked on the form.
I have tried putting the [] like this name="feature[]" in the name field but did not work so I reverted back.
My form....
<form name='quote' method="post" action="quote-request.php">
...
<center><h4 style='color:#C42D35'>Check each feature you will need:</h4></center>
<div class='row'>
<div class='col-md-6'>
<input type="checkbox" name="feature" value="something" checked> Basic <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="feature" value="something1"> Option 1 <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="feature" value="something2"> Option 2 <br>
</div>
<div class='col-md-6'>
<input type="checkbox" name="feature" value="something3"> Option 3 <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="feature" value="something4"> Option 4 <br>
</div>
</div>
...
</form>
My handler (quote-request.php)...
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email_to = "myemail#mydomain.com";
$email_subject = "Quote Request";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['firstName']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['phone']) ||
!isset($_POST['feature']) ||
!isset($_POST['comment'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$firstName = $_POST['firstName']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$phone = $_POST['phone']; // not required
$feature = $_POST['feature']; // required
$comment = $_POST['comment']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$firstName)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comment) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($firstName)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($phone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comment)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- include your own success html here -->
Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
<?php
}
?>