?php mail.. position question

Question

Fairly standard question that I have noticed lots of .asp
comments on forum.
I have a registration form that inserts a record and then
re-directs to a register success page.
I also want the registersuccess page (or alternatively form
page) to automatically send an e-mail to me, including certain
information entered into the form fields - namely the unique
identifier (email address). This I can set as a hyperlink to allow
me to connect directly to that record on-line.
I've sussed that this is the line I want to use in the
registersuccess page:
<?php mail ("[email protected]", "There is a new Site
Registration", $email);?>
Call me stupid but I cannot work out how to propogate
"$email" from a form field variable in the previous page if no
information is being passed from the previous page.
I have tried to include ?EMAIL=<?php echo
$POST_VARS['emailtextfield'];?> into the redirection address
when the form is submitted but I get an error.
I am now trying to find out where I can put my "mail" code in
the first form page but am having great difficulty as it is now
complicated by form checks and duplicate checks.
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

On 22 Mar 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev,
RichardODreamweaver
wrote:
> I am now trying to find out where I can put my "mail"
code in the
> first form page but am having great difficulty as it is
now
> complicated by form checks and duplicate checks.
In the script which processes the form (<form
method="POST"
action="thisisthefileyouwant.php">), find where the insert
behavior
ends. Just after that, you put your code to send the email to
you.
The visitor's entered email will still be in
$_POST['emailFieldName'].
So:
<?php
// Code to insert data ends here
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Record inserted';
$body = 'This record was inserted: EMail: ' .
$_POST['emailFieldName'];
mail($to, $subject, $body);
?>
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php