Store & Mail

[Zoltan]

Hi
I want to send the result of a simple form to a mySQL db and also email it at the same time.
I can store the result in my table, but not sure how to email it.
I've got a mailform written in perl in my cgi-bin which works fine.

Thanks,

Zoltan

[JDcrack]

You will find you answer here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

Also, this subject has been extensively covered in this forum,
search for mail or email and you will find many interesting and helpful results.

[archangel_617b]

You just want to email the submitted values of a form somwhere? The [man]mail/man function will send email (if the machine with the webserver has a mail server as well).

If you want to dump values, the simplest way would be to loop through the $_POST array with foreach and catenate the key/value pairs together.

Something like this:

$to = '[e-mail]';
$sbj = 'Form Data';
$body = '';

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
    $body .= "$key => $value \n\r";

mail($to, $sbj, $body);

Now, I'm not a fan of providing code solutions so please ask me how the code works rather then pasting it into your page directly.

{ed: nm. looks like JDcrack beat me to it]

[Zoltan]

I didn't know you can send your mail with PHP
- yes i'm a total newbie, but catching up fast!

(I would never paste anything that I don't understand fully, first I'm gonna find out everything about this mail() guy.)

Thanks a lot folks,
Zoltan