post within a script

waltherjt

I would like to post to a cgi autoresponder script some of the variables I have in my php script, and then continue on with my php script.

here is what I need it to do:

The form collects name, email, and zipcode.
It is posted to the php script.
The script enters the info to the db.
Post the info I collected to the cgi autoresponder script.
It redirects the visitor based on zip.

Currently I am sending an email to the autoresponder address before I redirect, but it won't accept the name and zipcode. This way the message they receive just says DEAR FRIEND, which looks kind of stupid to the customer.

I tried to add the variables to the mailheaders section, but it isn't doing the job. When I receive the email sent by the script, the headers are there, but I don't think the autoresponder will pick this up.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff
www.auto-loan-approval.com

batman

Post the code so we can see what it looks like, and tell exactly what part you are having trouble with. You shouldn't have to send the info to a autoresponder, just use the mail() function in php.

-Blake

batman

Your page that collects the info should look something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form name="form1" method="post" action="responder.php">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="name">
  </p>
  <p> 
    <input type="text" name="email">
  </p>
  <p> 
    <input type="text" name="zipcode">
  </p>
  <p> 
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

That page post to a page called responder.php
responder page should look something like this:


//Right here you will use your databse connections.

$name = $_POST ['name'];
$email = $_POST ['email'];
$zip = $_POST ['zipcode'];

//Here you will have something similar to this.

$sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO table name here (name, email, zip) VALUES('$name', '$email', '$zip')");

 //now start the autoresponder.

 $subject = 'Your subject';
 $message = 'Dear $name,
 Thank you for your recent auto loan something. Whatever else in here!';

 mail($email, $subject, $message, "FROM: yourname<Your email>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

if($zip == "blabla")
{
header ("Location: blabla page");
}
else
{
header ("Location: some other page");
}

Than that should be all!
-Blake

waltherjt

I guess I should've put up the code the first time.

//send email to auto responder
mail("autoloan@listwarrior.com", "subscribe", "message",
"From: $POST[email]\n"
."Reply-To: $POST[email]\n"
."firstname: $POST[fname]\n"
."zipcode: $POST[zip]\n");

You can see I tried to put the firstname and zipcode as optional fields in the header. I really have no clue if it would work this way, and it didn't.

The reason I want it to go to the autoresponder is because it will send follow up messages automatically at every certain number of days. Ex. thankyou immediately, how is it going on day 3, try this new product on one week later, how have you been in 2 months.

Thanks for the help so far. If there is a way to do this entirely in php, that would be great, but I think it's pretty involved. I have searched far and wide for a timed autoresponder like this but in php, and no luck.

Cheers!
Jeff

batman

As for the timed mail, I'm not sure about the timed thing, but you mite make use of the date() and mktime() functions, then you can send mail just about whenever you want. You will have to post exactly what you are wanting. If you are wanting to do it in php and make it to where the first name and zip code optional, then do this:

$name = $_POST ['name'];
$email = $_POST ['email'];
$zip = $_POST ['zipcode'];


$subject = 'Subscribe';
$header = "FROM: Subscriber<$email>\nX-Mailer: PHP/";
$header .= "Reply-To: $name<$email>";
$header .= "$zip";
$message = 'Dear $name,
 Thank you for your recent auto loan something. Whatever else in here!';

 mail(autoloan@listwarrior.com, $subject, $message, $header . phpversion());

I'm not positive if that will work, but it should. Sorry if it doesn't, i'm pretty tired. As for