mail() question

fnbcprog

I was asked to program a small part of a site that includes creating 6 different forms, which have different fields on each page, with a function that process all the forms.

I think that there needs to be some kind of foreach() function but I am not sure. What we need to get done is one function that will take all the fields and place them into a mailbody string and mail to a recipient depending on what form was submitted.

I hope that you can help!!!

eriksmoen

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you can pass each part through the form and store them as hidden files, or you can have each form save it to a unique document, then send that when its done. depending on the server. with windows, you can create a file in the pickup (i think) directory and it will auto send it. so create the doc in a temp folder, then when finished, move it to pickup. obviously it has to be set up just so, but do a search on google or something and try to find documentation about iis's mail stuff. same goes for linux/unix. anyhow, i just woke up, so i'm going to get coffee. i hope this makes sense.

nnichols

If you want to make a generic function that will process different forms you can just use something like this -

$msg = '';
foreach ($_POST as $name => $value) {
$msg .= $name . ': ' . $value . '<br><br>';
}

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

This is a simple example of how you can do this. Not exactly beautiful but it should be enough to get you started.

Hope this helps 😉

fnbcprog

That is excelent!! How do I code the HTML mail so that I have tables and colors and formatted text and everything.

Thanks,

eriksmoen

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same way you'd code a regular webpage.

fnbcprog

in the .msg part script things like <table width> and stuff

nnichols

Yes. Just add to the $msg string. The contents of the message will be displayed as html because the MIME header is included.

rpanning

Depends on how you want it, everything in a one table or everything has it's own table.

All in one table:

<?php
$msg = '';
$msg .="<table border=\"1\">\n";
foreach ($_POST as $name => $value) {
$msg .= '<tr><td><font size=\"2\">'$name . ': ' . $value . '</font></td></tr>\n';
}
$msg .="</table>\n";

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>

Or everything has it's own table:

<?php
$msg = '';

foreach ($_POST as $name => $value) {
$msg .= '<table border=\"1\">><tr><td><font size=\"2\">'$name . ': ' . $value . '</font></td></tr></table>\n';
}

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>