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I have a contact from that suppose to send emails to different people as the dropdown option.

The option values are defined in arrays with an array and I am battling to call the array value so the email can go to designated person.

Arrays are defined here: 

if((isset($_GET['enquiry']) && $_GET['enquiry']=='Locate a dealer/distributor')||(isset($_POST['enquiry']) && $_POST['enquiry']=='Locate a dealer/distributor')){
    $chk_Locate=TRUE;
}

if(isset($_GET['enquiry']) && $_GET['enquiry'] == 'CC'){
    $query_recipients = array(array('Complaint', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Suggestion', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Compliment', '[email protected]'));
    $enquiry = '<input type="hidden" name="enquiry" id="enquiry" value="CC">';
}

else{
    $query_recipients = array(array('Locate a dealer/distributor', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Technical support', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Back orders', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Product enquiry', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Catalog request', '[email protected]'),
                            array('New customer enquiry', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Existing customers - logon', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Existing customers - orders', '[email protected]'),
                            array('Report web problems', '[email protected]'));
}

Loop

foreach($query_recipients as $key => $val){ 
    if((isset($_POST['enquiry']) && $_POST['enquiry'] == $val[0])||(isset($_GET['enquiry']) && $_GET['enquiry'] == $val[0])){
        $selected = $val[0].' : '.$item;
        if($val[0]=='Existing customers - logon'||$val[0]=='Technical support'||$val[0]=='Catalog request'||$val[0]=='Product enquiry'||$val[0]=='New customer enquiry'||$val[0]=='Existing customers - orders'||$val[0]=='Catalog request')

The code that calls them is:

$_POST['recipient_email'] = $contact_email.','.$recpt_email;
    if(isset($ref_number)){
        $_POST['subject'] = 'Examplecompany Group: '.$ref_number.': '.$_POST['enquiry'];
    }else{
        $_POST['subject'] = 'Examplecompany Group: '.$_POST['enquiry'];
    }
    $_POST['sender_email'] = $_POST['email'];
    $_POST['cc'] = $_POST['email'].', Examplecompany Group <[email protected]>';
    $_POST['body'] = '<p>Name: ' . $_POST['name'] . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Surname: ' . $_POST['surname'] . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Company: ' . $_POST['company'] . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Examplecompany Account No.: ' . $_POST['accnr'] . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Account No. verification: ' . $cust_verify . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Email: ' . $_POST['email'] . '</p>'
                        . '<p>Tel/cell: ' . $_POST['tel'] . '</p>'
                        . $_POST['enquiry'] . ': ' . $_POST['message'];

    if(Email::Send($_POST, NULL)){
        $message = 'Your feedback has been sent'.$cont_ref;
    } else {
        $message = 'There was an error sending your feedback';
    }
}

This is the line I suppose to use to call them $_POST['recipient_email'] = $contact_email.','.$recpt_email; for now it works but it calls the last array array('Report web problems', '[email protected]') irrespective of chosen option.

Please help, if i can find a way to call the array values I believe my form with work according to plan.

There is a line that i dont understand

$enquiry_options .= '<option>'.$val[0].'</option>';
    $recpt_email = $val[1];

If the val is set to $Val[1] the form sends email to the last email address on arrays but if set to $Val[0] it doesnt.

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Have you considered using key-value pairs instead of nested arrays? For example, array('Complaint' => '[email protected]', 'Suggestion' => '[email protected]'). See php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php –  user113215 Aug 27 '12 at 15:03
    
Thanks for input, i'll check it out and feedaback. –  Mlungisi Aug 27 '12 at 17:32
    
Thanks for input, yes I've tried that and the page does load. I am not the original coder and cant seem to know what the original coder assign 1 here: $recpt_email = $val[1]; –  Mlungisi Aug 27 '12 at 17:40
    
Thanks @user113215 i've been cracking my heard with this code but no luck. Enquiry field is: <div><label>Enquiry</label><div><select name="enquiry" id="enquiry" class="select"><option selected="selected"><?php echo $selected ?></option><?php echo $enquiry_options ?></select></div></div> –  Mlungisi Aug 27 '12 at 20:06
    
I moved my comments to an answer and provided some sample code. See below. –  user113215 Aug 27 '12 at 20:39

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Consider switching your array to use key-value pairs instead of nested arrays. (Refer to the array documentation.) 

$enquiry_choices = array(
    'Complaint' => '[email protected]',
    'Suggestion' => '[email protected]',
    'Compliment' => '[email protected]',
    'Locate a dealer/distributor' => '[email protected]',
    'Technical support' => '[email protected]',
    'Back orders' => '[email protected]',
    'Product enquiry' => '[email protected]',
    'Catalog request' => '[email protected]',
    'New customer enquiry' => '[email protected]',
    'Existing customers - logon' => '[email protected]',
    'Existing customers - orders' => '[email protected]',
    'Web site problems' => '[email protected]',
);

// Optional: Sort the choices by name
ksort($enquiry_choices);

This makes it easy to get the e-mail address associated with the user's choice.

$enquiry = $_GET['enquiry'];
$enquiry_email = (array_key_exists($enquiry, $enquiry_choices) ? $enquiry_choices[$enquiry] : false);

It is also simple to generate the HTML for the dropdown list. (Refer to the foreach documentation.) Note that the code above that defines $enquiry must preceed the code below.

echo <<<HTML
<div>
    <label for="enquiry">Enquiry:</label>
</div>
<select name="enquiry" id="enquiry" class="select">
HTML;

foreach($enquiry_choices as $key => $value) {
    $selected = ($enquiry == $key ? ' selected="selected"' : '');
    echo "<option$selected>$key</option>";
}

echo '</select>';
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