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Nicholas Lee
12,474 PointsHow to pass user selected date and time to php mailer?
Similar to the contact page of the PHP shirt store project I am trying to pass a user selected time and date.
For the time I used this.
<tr>
<th>
<label for="eventtime">Time of Event:</label>
</th>
<td>
<input type="time" name="eventtime" id="eventtime" value="12:00:00" >
</td>
</tr>
And for the date
<tr>
<th>
<label for="eventdate">Date of Event:</label>
</th>
<td>
<input type="date" name="eventdate" id="eventdate" value="1/1/2020" >
</td>
</tr>
On my website the html selector shows up but it does not ended up sending to my email.
I tried to store it like such:
$email_body = $email_body . "Event Date" . $eventdate. "<br>";
$email_body = $email_body . "Event Time" . $eventtime. "<br>";
and
$eventdate = trim($_POST["eventdate"]);
$time = trim($_POST["time"]);
And send it along with phpmailer
$mail->MsgHTML($email_body);
Does anyone have any tips on how to accomplish this?
2 Answers
Nicholas Lee
12,474 PointsI got it to work using this.
<input type="text" name="eventdate" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d'); ?>" />
Nicholas Lee
12,474 PointsI am having trouble with the time however.
Nicholas Lee
12,474 PointsI am using this for time but it fail to store it.
<input type="text" name="eventtime" id="eventtime" value= "<?php echo date('h-i'); ?>"/>