1. Each form submission goes to multiple recipients
2. The recipient of a form depends on a form select box

Each form submission goes to multiple recipients

This is the easier of the two in both concept and implementation. By default, when your form is submitted it is emailed to the ‘Admin email address’. If you would like a form to be sent to more than 1 address, simply comma separate the list of email addresses to send to. View the image as an example.

The recipient of a form depends on a form select box

This is a little more difficult to achieve but still quite easy using cforms. Here it is a two step process. Step one is to create a special Multiple Recipients field. Step two sets the email addresses for the recipients.

Create the special Multiple Recipient field

Create a new field and give it the type ‘Multiple Recipients’. In the field name, enter the select box label and then the select box choices separated by the ‘#’. Your field name will then look like:

Recipient?#President#Vice President#Senator#Representative

Which in your form will look like:

Set the email address for the recipients

Enter a properly ordered, comma separated list of email addresses into the ‘Admin email addresses’. View the example:

In the dVector installation, there seems to be a small implementation issue. cformsII strips out single ‘\’s in the regular expression. To fix this problem simply place two ‘\’s instead of one in your regular expression. Unfortunately, every time you update settings, the ‘\’s are stripped. This means that if you use regular expressions in your form fields, you must double the slashes just before your last Update Settings.

Here are some regular expressions I use:

Telephone||^\([0-9]{3}\)\s?[0-9]{3}(-|\s)?[0-9]{4}$|^[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]{4}$

Zip Code||^[0-9]{5}([- /]?[0-9]{4})?$

Website||^([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$

Name||^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z',\.\- ]*[a-zA-Z\.]$

The same regular expressions only with doubled slashes:

Telephone||^\\([0-9]{3}\\)\\s?[0-9]{3}(-|\\s)?[0-9]{4}$|^[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]{4}$

Zip Code||^[0-9]{5}([- /]?[0-9]{4})?$

Website||^([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9\\-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$

Name||^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z',\\.\\- ]*[a-zA-Z\\.]$

This is a bit of an inconvenience but once you have set your forms, there is usually very little reason to change them.

While the use of regular expressions does not eliminate invalid data, it certainly does cut down on erroneous user input. The Regular Expression Library provides an excellent resource for those simply looking for regular expression recipes.