PHP Mail

Report · Aug 31, 2009

Hi all,

I created a form (the information is send to the organizer via PHP and everything works fine) but I would like to know how to send to the participant a confirmation email.

<?php

$to = $_POST[['email'];

$subject = "registration mail";

$message = "Hello! This is a confirmation message.";

$from = "me@mac.com";

$headers = "From: $from";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

<?php

if (array_key_exists('send', $_POST)) {

// mail processing script

$to = 'me@mac.com'; // use your own email address

$subject = 'Regitration';

// process the $_POST variables

$first = $_POST['first'];

$last = $_POST['last'];

$address = $_POST['address'];

$city = $_POST['city'];

$state = $_POST['state'];

$zip = $_POST['zip'];

$email = $_POST['email'];

$fee = $_POST['fee'];

$comment = $_POST['comment'];

// build the message

$message = "First: $first\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Last: $last\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Address: $address\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "City: $city\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "State: $state\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Zip: $zip\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Email: $email\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Entry fee: $fee\r\n\r\n";

$message .= "Comments: $comment";

$message = wordwrap($message, 500);

// send it

$mailSent = mail($to, $subject, $message);

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<!--

function MM_popupMsg(msg) { //v1.0

alert(msg);

}

function MM_validateForm() { //v4.0

if (document.getElementById){

var i,p,q,nm,test,num,min,max,errors='',args=MM_validateForm.arguments;

for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3) { test=args[i+2]; val=document.getElementById(args);

if (val) { nm=val.name; if ((val=val.value)!="") {

if (test.indexOf('isEmail')!=-1) { p=val.indexOf('@');

if (p<1 || p==(val.length-1)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain an e-mail address.\n';

} else if (test!='R') { num = parseFloat(val);

if (isNaN(val)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number.\n';

if (test.indexOf('inRange') != -1) { p=test.indexOf(':');

min=test.substring(8,p); max=test.substring(p+1);

if (num<min || max<num) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number between '+min+' and '+max+'.\n';

} } } else if (test.charAt(0) == 'R') errors += '- '+nm+' is required.\n'; }

} if (errors) alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);

document.MM_returnValue = (errors == '');

} }

//-->

function setfocus()

{

document.registration.first.focus();

}

</script>

<!--

#registration p {

color: #006;

font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif;

font-size: 16px;

padding-left: 10px;

}

-->

</style>

</head>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="post" name="registration" id="registration" onsubmit="MM_validateForm('first','','R','last','','R','phone','','R','email','','RisEmail','fee','','RisNum');return document.MM_returnValue">

<p>

<label for="first">First: </label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="address">Address: </label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="state">State: </label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="phone">Phone:</label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="email">Email:</label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="numberofgolfer">Number of golfer: </label>

<option value="3">Three</option>

</select>

</p>

<p>

<label for="dinner">Extra dinner:</label>

</p>

<p>

<label for="fee">Entry fee:</label>

$

</p>

<p>

<label>

New participant</label>

</td>

<label>

<br />

Returnig golfer</label>

</td>

</p>

<p>

<label for="howhear">How did you hear about the golf tournament?</label>

<option value="golf">From Golf Course</option>

<option value="friend" selected="selected">Friend</option>

<option value="flyer">Flyer</option>

<option value="postcard">Postcard</option>

<option value="email">Email</option>

<option value="facebook">Facebook</option>

<option value="mailing">Mailing</option>

<option value="website">Website</option>

<option value="other">Other</option>

</select>

</p>

<p>

<label for="comment">Comments: </label>

</p>

<p>

</span></p>

</form>

</body>

</html>

thanks

Report · Sep 01, 2009

All you're doing is sending two emails. Put one script after the other inside the if (array_key_exists('send', $_POST)) conditional statement.

However, if you are going to use the form input from the email field to send the email, it's absolutely vital to validate the email address before using it to send the message. If you don't, you risk turning your form into a spam relay.

The best way to do this, assuming your server supports PHP 5.2 or 5.3 is with the PHP filter functions.

if (array_key_exists('send', $_POST)) {
  if (filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'email', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
    // build the first email and send it
    // then send the second email
  }
}

By the way, I see you have set wordwrap() to 500. For an email, wordwrap() should be set to something like 72.