Email Notification To Me

[boxturt]

Greetings and salivations, um - salutations? Yea - that's it.

 

I have a basic form on a site that uses php to put the info into a mysql table. Form gets filled out, click to submit ( <form .... method="post" action="/dothis.php" onsubmit="return checkform(this) && checkCheckBoxes(this) && isValid();"...etc> )and no further action is required on the users part. The info reappears on the thankyou page and the info goes into database for display elsewhere. I know - nothing new here.

 

Or here, but my question : is there an easy method to get an email sent to me when that form is submitted? (I'm having one of those "I know I've seen it somewhere.." moments...)

 

 

Thanks

 

[edit] I should say easy and safe method

Edited March 6, 2005 by boxturt

[TCH-Don]

Since the info is sent to a thank you page

why not use php mail() to send the info to yourself just before going to the thank you page

 

<?php

mail($myemail, $subject, $message, $from);

?>

 

You can set $message equal to all the data you need to see.

[boxturt]

Thanks Don

 

You can set $message equal to all the data you need to see.

 

I'm having trouble making this work. Defining $message that is. I tried putting everything in here first (predefining $myemail and $subject earlier) :

><?php
mail($myemail, $subject, $first_name, $last_name, $phone, $email);
?>

 

but it ceased to work after adding the 5th ($last_name) element. I tried predefining $message as an array also (which is probably just wrong anyway ) and that didn't work either.

 

I shuld mention though that it does indeed work up to that point.

[stevevan]

Ty: what about Ultimate Form Mail? Would this work for your particular application?

[TCH-Don]

No you need to keep the format

<?php

mail($myemail, $subject, $message, $from);

?>

 

 

So try this using Heredoc to build the $message

><?php
$myemail ="me@mysite";
$subject = "new database entry";

$message = <<< EOF
New entry to database
Name: $first_name  $last_name 
Phone: $phone 
email: $email
EOF;

$from = "From: $email\r\n";

// send mail
mail($myemail, $subject, $message, $from);
?>

[boxturt]

Thanks - I'll try that. This is sooooo close to what I kept calling "predefining". This is page 74 of my O'Reilly's too. Sitting right here next to me and I didn't find it. Durr

 

Thanks for the suggestion Steve, I'm not sure UFM would work for this but I may end up revisiting the option. (I think only the paid version writes to database, not sure)

[Head Guru]

Boxturt,

 

Thanks for the card. I really enjoyed reading it. My son is using the pick everyday to play.

 

Bill

[boxturt]

You're welcome - thank you!! I'm glad he's giving it a try

 

BTW - the ' HEREDOC ' did the trick, thank you. I like php and I know I'll be better at it once I learn what things are called!!

[TCH-Don]