[Resolved] Passing Variable data to email

dmacman1962

Hi all,

I had an earlier post that I solved myself, but now I have another issue I am not clear on. Previous post

This code shows what they are ordering and the amount, but I cannot figure how to pass THIS onto the sendmail.php page as one variable or array.

<html> 
<head><title>process.php</title></head> 
<body> 

<form action="sendmail.php" method="post" name="SendOrder" id="SendOrder">
  <?php if(isset($_POST['order'])){    ?>  

    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> 
        <tr> 
            <th>ID</th> 
            <th>Item</th> 
            <th>Quantity</th>
		    <th>Price</th> 

    </tr> 
<?php    foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID) { ?>  

        <tr> 
            <td><?php echo $ID; ?></td> 
            <td><?php echo $_POST['name_'.$ID]; ?></td> 
            <td><?php echo $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]; ?></td> 
			<td><?php echo $_POST['price_'.$ID]; ?></td> 
        </tr> 
<?php     } ?>  

    </table> 
<?php }   ?>
<?php  

foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID){ 
   $total += ${'price_'.$ID}; 
}
echo "The Total is $"."$total<br>";
?>

  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit the order">
  </p>
</form>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body> 
</html>

That way, I can just send that as 1 variable with this code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>sendmail</title>
</head>

<body>
<? 
$message = " ALL the items ordered from the process4.php page.";
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: [url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]" );
  ?>
</body>
</html>

Thanks,

Don

Nixon

I think you could use something along the lines of:

$email= $ID;
$email .= $POST['name'.$ID];
email .= $POST['quantity'.$ID];
email .= $POST['price'.$ID];

Then work from that with the ".=" adding that line of code onto the end of the current $email variable, so you oculd make your email up like that, but im grasping at straws, im not %100 sure what you asking.

Regards,
Jack.

dmacman1962

Jack,

I can see what you leading into, but I tried the following and get a T_CONCAT_EQUAL error:

<? 
foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID){
$email= $ID; 
$email .= $_POST['name_'.$ID]; 
email .= $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]; 
email .= $_POST['price_'.$ID];
}
echo $email;
$message = " ALL the items ordered fromthe process4.php page.";
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: [url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]" );
  ?>

Is this where you leading to?

Thanks,

Don

Nixon

<? 
foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID){
$email= $ID; 
$email .= $_POST['name_'.$ID]; 
$email .= $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]; 
$email .= $_POST['price_'.$ID];
}
echo $email;
$message = " ALL the items ordered fromthe process4.php page.";
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: [url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]" );
  ?>

Try that 🙂 You missed out the $ on osme of your email variables 😛

Regards,
Jack.

P.S Also put some <br> tags in there or you will get 1 continuous string with no new lines! e.g.

<? 
foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID){
$email= $ID."<br>"; 
$email .= $_POST['name_'.$ID]."<br>"; 
$email .= $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]."<br>"; 
$email .= $_POST['price_'.$ID]."<br><br>";
}
echo $email;
$message = " ALL the items ordered fromthe process4.php page.";
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: [url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]" );
  ?>

Nixon

And from a second look at your code you want to put that information in your $message variable, not your email variable i believe!

Good Luck!

<? 

$message = NULL;

foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID){ 
$message .= $ID."<br>";  

$message .= $_POST['name_'.$ID]."<br>";  

$message .= $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]."<br>";  

$message .= $_POST['price_'.$ID]."<br><br>"; 
} 

$message .= " ALL the items ordered fromthe process4.php page."; 
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results", 
    $message, "From: $email" ); 
  header( "Location: <a href="http://www.me.com/thankyou.html" target="_blank">[url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]</a>" ); 
  ?>

Try that slightly modified again but should be the best one, or I hope so anyway 😉

dmacman1962

Hi Nixon,

I made the modifications you suggested and on both my localhost and our ISP, I get the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xyz/xyz.com/don/order/sendmail.php on line 13

I am not sure why.

Thanks,

Don

Nixon

Soryr mate, touched it up a bit more

<? 

ob_start();

$message = NULL;

foreach($_POST['order'] as $key => $ID)

{ 

$message .= $ID."<br>"; 
$message .= $_POST['name_'.$ID]."<br>"; 
$message .= $_POST['quantity_'.$ID]."<br>"; 
$message .= $_POST['price_'.$ID]."<br><br>";

} 

$message .= "<br><br> ALL the items ordered fromthe process4.php page."; 
mail( "me@my.com", "Feedback Form Results", $message, "From: $email" ); 

header( "Location: [url]http://www.me.com/thankyou.html[/url]" );

?>

but all I can think is that the variables are not passing across properly, ive never used foreach() and never used the => symbol so i'm not 100% whats happening there, maybe somebodie else will chip in.

Regards,
Jack.

dmacman1962

I used the code above, and I get just the last item of the order, not all the items ordered?

Thanks,

Don

dmacman1962

Another user asked why I took this route and it got me thinking.

If this way is too complicated and possibly may not work, I am up for just sending all the items and quantity ordered right from order.php screen. The challenge I still have is that the item names and quantity are dynamically named variables. How do I gather (or collect) them and send them via one variable (ie $message) for the php email function to work?

Here is my code for that page.

<html> 
<head><title>Online Sign Ordering</title></head> 
<body> 
<?php  

$hostname = "localhost";  

$database = "a";  

$username = "b";  

$password = "c"; 
$path = "images/";  

$connpt = mysql_pconnect($hostname, $username, $password) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);   

mysql_select_db($database, $connpt);  

?>  

<form action="process4.php" method="post" name="SignOrder" id="SignOrder"> 
<table> 
    <tr> 
        <td width="100">ID</td> 
        <td width="100">Item Name</td> 
        <td width="150">Item Description</td> 
        <td width="150">Body Copy</td> 
        <td width="100">Price</td>
		<td width="100">Image</td> 
        <td width="150">Order</td> 
        <td width="150">Quantity</td> 
    </tr> 
<?php  

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM dealeritems");  

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {   

?>  

<tr> 
        <td width="100"><?php echo $row['ID']; ?></td> 
        <td width="100"><?php echo $row['ItemName']; ?></td> 
        <td width="150"><?php echo $row['ItemDescription']; ?></td> 
        <td width="150"><?php echo $row['BodyCopy']; ?></td> 
		 <td width="150"><?php echo "$".$row['Price']; ?></td>
		<input type="hidden" name="price_<?php echo $row['ID']; ?>" value="<?php echo $row['Price']; ?>">
        <td width="100"><img src="<?php echo $path.$row['ImageName']; ?>" width="100" height="125"></td> 
        <td width="150"> 
            <input name="order[]" type="checkbox" value="<?php echo $row['ID']; ?>"> 
                <!-- Aside: include hidden itemnames to be used 
                    in the 'thank you for your order message' --> 
            <input type="hidden" name="name_<?php echo $row['ID']; ?>" value="<?php echo $row['ItemName']; ?>"> 
        </td> 
        <td width="150"> 
				<select name="quantity_<?php echo $row['ID']; ?>">
                <option value="0">0</option> 
                <option value="1">1</option> 
                <option value="2">2</option> 
                <option value="3">3</option> 
                <option value="4">4</option> 
                <option value="5">5</option> 
            </select> 
        </td> 
    </tr> 
<?php  

}   ?>  

</table> 
<p> 
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> 
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"> 
</p> 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

I would appreciate any help at all.

Thanks,
Don

dmacman1962

I resolved this.

Here is the solution. On the process page, I added this code:

 if(isset($_POST['order'])) 
{ 
   $message = ''; 
   foreach($_POST['order'] as $val) 
   { 
      $message .= 'Item # ' . $val . ' | quantity: ' .$_POST['quantity_'.$val]. "\n"; 
   } 
   echo $message; 
}

That did the trick.

Thanks all,

Don