Email data

pargie11

I'm doing a php, ms access web app, where customers can request a quote on different products. I save the customers requests in a table, what I can't figure out is how to take the contact information that the customer gives from a form and send it via email along with everything that is in their "cart". Keep in mind, i'm not saving the customer information to the database.
Any ideas?

Jasp182

pargie11 wrote:
I'm doing a php, ms access web app, where customers can request a quote on different products. I save the customers requests in a table, what I can't figure out is how to take the contact information that the customer gives from a form and send it via email along with everything that is in their "cart". Keep in mind, i'm not saving the customer information to the database.
Any ideas?

Read up on [man]mail[/man].

Things to keep in mind for sending mail:

validate email addresses with a good regular expression - should be easy to find a good email address pattern if you're not already familiar with this
build your headers correctly - there's documentation all over the web for this as well as examples on the [man]mail/man man page
make sure to send one email at a time so your server doesn't get flagged as a possible spammer. I'm not an expert on this, but I heard from a friend that as soon as he started sending out newsletters to multiple recipients in one email, emails from his domain started getting routed to spam folders on a lot of the more popular webmail providers (yahoo, aol, hotmail, etc).