emailing a user their shopping cart details

skdzines

I have created a shopping cart and need to know how to send the products and total they have selected to them in an email?

I am using this function to display the contents of the cart to the user on the screen.

function display_checkout_cart($cart, $change=true, $images = 1){
	//display items in shopping cart
	//optionally allow changes (true or false)
	//optionally include images


echo("
	<table width='750' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>
	<form action='/project/checkout.php' method='post'>
  <tr> 
	<td width='368'><p><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><b>Product Name</b></font></p>
	<p>&nbsp;</p></td>
	<td width='138'><p><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><b>Price</b></font></p>
	<p>&nbsp;</p></td>
	<td width='194'><p><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><b>Qty</b></font></p>
	<p>&nbsp;</p></td>
	<td width='50'><p><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><b>Total</b></font></p>
	<p>&nbsp;</p></td>
  </tr>
");

//display each item as a table row
	foreach($cart as $prod['productID'] => $qty){
	$prodInfo = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("select productPrice, productName from products where productID = ".$prod['productID'].""));
	echo ("
	<tr>
		<td><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>".$prodInfo['productName']."</font></td>
		<td><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>\$".number_format($prodInfo['productPrice'], 2)."</font></td>
		<td>");
		//if we allow changes, quantities are in text boxes
		if($change==true){
		echo("
		<font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><input type='text' name='".$prod['productID']."' size='2' value='".$qty."'>add/remove</font></td>
		");
		}else{
			echo(" <font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>$qty</font> ");
		}
		echo("
		<td><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>\$".number_format($prodInfo['productPrice'] * $qty, 2)."</font></td>
	  </tr>
	  ");
	 }
	 echo("
	 <tr>
	 	<td colspan='4'><hr width='750' noshade><br></td>
	 </tr>
	 ");

	 //display total row
	 echo("
	 <tr> 
				<td width='368'><p>&nbsp;</p></td>
				<td width='138'><p>&nbsp;</p></td>
				<td width='194'><b><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>".$_SESSION['items']."</font></b></td>
				<td width='50'><b><font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>\$".number_format($_SESSION['total_price'],2)."</font></b></td>
		  	</tr>
	 ");

	echo (" </form></table>"); 
}

Basically I want to be able to add that function or what is in it to the email body.

This is what the page looks like that will send the email and also display the order back to them on the screen.

<?
include ('connect_var.php');
include ('connect.php');
include ('functions.php');
session_start();
$firstName = $_SESSION['firstName'];
$lastName = $_SESSION['lastName'];
$email = $_SESSION['email'];

//if the cart has items display them
if($_SESSION['cart']&&array_count_values($_SESSION['cart']))
{
    display_checkout_cart($_SESSION['cart'], false, 0);
}
echo("
<html>
<head>
<title>Process Order</title>
</head>

<body>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<font size='1' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>
Thank you for shopping with us <b>$firstName $lastName</b>.  Your order has been placed.<br>
An email has been sent to <b>$email</b> confirming your order and total.<br> 
Please print a copy of it to keep for your records.</font>
</body>
</html>
");

$useremail="$email"; 
		$subject="Order Details";
		$header = "From: order@xyzcompany.com\r\n";
		$header .= "X=Mailer: PHP/"; 
		$body="Here are the details of your order:

                      //this is where the order details should be.

	"; 
	mail ($useremail, $subject, $body, $header);
	exit;
?>

I hope this makes sense and that someone can help me in this matter.

Thanks

oprpg

I didn't read the whole code... but couldn't you just use the mail function?

mail("email to the person", "subject", message,
"From: youremail");

or heres a function u can use...

function sendmail($to,$subject,$pagetext,$from="you@youremail.com") {

@mail($to,$subject,$pagetext,"From: $from\nReply-To: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion());

}

skdzines

I'm using the mail function to send the mail. Problem is I have a function called display_checkout_cart($cart) which takes everything that has been placed in the shopping cart and prints it to the screen with their quantities, totals and overall total.

I basically want to be able to send what is in the cart to the user in an email and have it look the same in the email as it does on the screen when reviewing their order.

There is no way for me to hardcode the information that I want provided in the email because I don't know if they will have 1 product or 100 products.

Thanks for you help.

skdzines

Any ideas anybody?

Thanks