pass variables to a script that will mail

[Gump]

Howdy,

I have developed a simple script that will take fields entered into a text box, and pass that data to a second page that prints the data out.

The purpose for this is to save someone typing repetetive emails. These emails specifically for my purpose are for users you have lost their login details. 99% of the letter is static, then the script plugs in the variable (user, pass, etc) to the static text, then I copy it all and paste it into an email. Its a big time save.

The goal: skip the copy and paste, and just have the script mail the letter when the variables are submitted.

Any idea on how this could be achieved?

Thanks!

[drew010]

mailtemplate.txt

---

Hello NAME,
Below is the login details you have requested.
Username: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD

Log In at $url.

Thanks,
Us

send.php

---

<?
$fp = fopen("./mailtemplate.txt","r");
while(!feof($fp)) {
    $contents .= fread($fp,4096);
}
fclose($fp);

// RETRIEVE THE USERS DETAILS FROM DB HERE

$contents = str_replace("__NAME__","$nameFromDB,$contents);
$contents = str_replace("__USERNAME__",$userNameFromDB,$contents);
$contents = str_replace("__PASSWORD__",$passFromDB,$contents);

mail($emailFromDB,"Forgot Password Details",$contents,
    ."From: [email][e-mail][/email]");

echo "Your login details have been emailed to $emailFromDB.";
?>

I hope that helps you out a bit and you understand exactly what i am doing there...
if you have any questions feel free to post back or email me.
[e-mail]

[Gump]

Hi Drew,

I do see what is going on here, but I am confused on how the send.php works.

I assume I can just post the variables from a web form to the send.php file? Looks like you want it to make calls to a database or something like that.

send.php produces a parse error on line 11 now.

Thanks again!

[drew010]

oops, i accidentally added an unwanted " in there...
if you wanna just post the variables in I have modified it to do that.
here is the code:

<? 
$fp = fopen("./mailtemplate.txt","r"); 
while(!feof($fp)) { 
    $contents .= fread($fp,4096); 
} 
fclose($fp); 

$contents = str_replace("__NAME__",$_REQUEST[name],$contents); 
$contents = str_replace("__USERNAME__",$_REQUEST[username],$contents); 
$contents = str_replace("__PASSWORD__",$_REQUSET[password],$contents); 

mail($emailFromDB,"Forgot Password Details",$contents, 
    "From: [email][e-mail][/email]"); 

echo "Your login details have been emailed to $emailFromDB."; 
?> 

Just post data from a form with input names of name, username, and password and the script will make the appropriate replacements...

it is also good so you can just use query string:

send.php?name=John%20Doe&username=jdoe&password=abcdefg

[Gump]

Perfect. Thanks very much. A little tweaking and this will be a great little proggy.

Have a good one.

(maybe Ill buy one of those books you reccomend.

[drew010]

glad to help 🙂 good luck with it.