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I need to create an email form for an Association that has about 100 branches.

I would like top implement a contact form that allows a user to select a branch from a selection of dropdown lists and to email a particular branch dependent on the selection.

i.e

Contact a branch

Select your branch and complete the form below to receive information to your email address.

Dropdown lists

Area 1 (74 Branches)
Area 2 (4 Branches)
Area 3 (8 Branches)
Area 4 (8 Branches)
Area 5 (1 Branch)
Area 6 (1 Branch)
Area 7 (9 Branches)
Area 8 (3 Branches)

This would help cut down on the number of pages that the site needs. At present each branch has a page with its address details and contact information on it. 

I would like to be able to use an auto responder system to send the contact information for the branch selected to the person who submitted the form.

Is this kind of facility do-able in EE ❓

Freeform from Solspace will be adding this ability.

In the meantime if you want to do this I suggest you use a standard Form Mail script but be careful in using these as email addresses in hidden fields get trawled by bots and some scripts are unsafe. The NMS script is the one recommended by my web host and I am using it on a EE site at the moment but will replace once Freeform is updated.

I would use a url segment to achieve this without the drop downs.

From the branch template, link to your contact form and put the entry id for the branch in the last segment.  Then, use that number to construct a weblog:entries tag to get the email address for the branch to put into your form.  It could be a hidden field.

So your url is
http://www.someaddress.com/index.php/contact/23

23 is the entry ID of the branch
then in your contact form

<input type="hidden" name="to" value="{exp:weblog:entries entry_id="{segment_2}"}{branch_email}{/exp:weblog:entries}">

EDIT: Gah, I just re-read and see you want to get RID of your branch pages.  This won’t work in that case.