mail function &amp; html post

mail function & html post

BEFOR

How can php send mail be used in conjunction with html POST?

-want to make it, so when the user submits a form, the mail sends, and only then.

Can this be done without curl function?

bpat1434

This is done via [man]mail/man function (or the PEAR extension) and formatting of the text in the mail. Totally possible without cURL. Not sure how you'd do it with curl actually....

BEFOR

Done it, but problem is the mail sends whenever the php code is read.
Which means, even when user backs out of the page.

Need to do this ONLY when form posts (php condition that picks up on 'submit', etc?).

<?php $send = "my@address.com";
mail($send_mail, "test", "message");?>

sends even when:
<input type="hidden" name="" value="<?php echo mail($send, "test", "purchase"); ?>">

Blulagoon

Is this the code of the file a.php or is that a separate file.

Rather than try and have the mail function in a hidden form field, you can do this:

if ($_POST['Submit'])  {     // Test that the submit button has been clicked
mail($send, "test", "purchase");
}
else { echo "Do Nothing"; }

Blu

BEFOR

Blulagoon,

Tried before and after form action and Submit button.
Seems to not be reading;

if ($_POST['Submit'])

a.php is a seperate file.

Blulagoon

Have you tried to check the value of $_POST['Submit'] on a.php ?

Try

echo $_POST['Submit'];  // should print "Go to Checkout" the value of Submit

Edit: mail() function and check for $_POST should be at the top of the form processing page, a.php, not the originating page.

BEFOR

Have you tried to check the value of $_POST['Submit'] on a.php

- Not an option, its a merchant gateway page, can't alter it.

the current page obviously sends the post on submit, but how to capture it is the question.
a header redirect would lose the post values.

Blulagoon

Now he tells us ..................... 😃

Can you have an intermediate page in the process called b.php
b.php

if $_POST['Submit']   {
mail($send, "test", "purchase"); 
include("http://anywhere.com/a.php");
exit;
}

All the $_POST variables from the originating page will be available to b.php and thus to a.php as well.

HTH - Blu

Houdini

I don't see why there aren't just two pages one with the form on it and the next which simply processes the posted data, anything more just adds confusion.

BEFOR

Are you saying:
1) page original POST occurs on --> 2) b.php containing only

if $_POST['Submit']   { 
mail($send, "test", "purchase"); 
include("http://anywhere.com/a.php"); 
exit; 
}

also with a manual link to a.php ?

If possible I'm trying to do this from one page to the next, for checkout at gateway.

Houdini ; that's waht I'm after, the problem is getting the email to send from the 1st page where original POST values reside. capturing the $_POST['Submit'] on the second/Gateway page is not an option.

Blulagoon

I'd agree with you, but the page that this form is being sent to (a.php) is a merchant gateway page, so BEFOR cannot use that page to send himself the email that says someone has ordered something, that was why I was suggesting the intermediate page (b.php) which checked the data, and if it met the right criteria it sent the email and called the a.php page without any additional user interaction.

Blu

BEFOR

this POST page I've been referring to is already to check the data, directed from a table insert (job posting).

Blulagoon

OK, so don't bother to check the data in the intermediate page, just use it to send yourself the email then use include to automatically load a.php without user interaction.

Blu

BEFOR

A) I have to let the user confirm the buy/check data before going to checkout.
They confrim price, runtimes, etc.

😎 Presently I have:

INSERT -->POST variables/user checks values --> a.php

The second page has variables derived from the first/INSERT values , that the second page POSTS as variables, which a.php will use to process the transaction correctly.(transaction type & pricing)

bpat1434

How can php send mail be used in conjunction with html POST?

Check to see if the HTML form is there with an if()else{} statement.

Can this be done without curl function?

Yes and no. With cURL you can easily have the items you want forwarded as POST-ed data. But Zend wrote an article on submitting posted data again without the use of cURL. That might be what you want. Submit to a.php, which sends your mail and then if successful mailing, it posts the transaction, otherwise it fails because it can't complete right then.

BEFOR

Check to see if the HTML form is there with an if()else{} statement.

You mean similair to what Blulagoon posted above?

Submit to a.php, which sends your mail and then if successful mailing, it posts the transaction, otherwise it fails because it can't complete right then.

Don't know if I want the merchant checkout form for payment to be dependent on my email, if you know what I mean.

I still think this can be done somehow (riding on intuition here) by calling an external file, that would trigger the mail, or by creating a class to help perform the task.

This is a very common need -- this email will verify if the merchant postback is made shortly afterward -- it will serve as a cue to look for the postback(not much leeway for a real-time e-service, which this is). Also, my gateway only makes a single postback attempt, another reason I'm starting to become email-reliant.

bpat1434

I still think this can be done somehow (riding on intuition here) by calling an external file, that would trigger the mail, or by creating a class to help perform the task.

What exactly do you want done? We've told you that you have to use the mail() function to send an email. Fine. Now you want to integrate with a merchant service. Well which service? Is it something like PayPal with IPN (which they've documented) or is it something else?

Have you ran your own test to do the following:
1.) Send payment to the merchant (from yourself to yourself)
2.) have the merchant service post-back to your script
3.) Dump out all the variables (POST, GET, Cookie, Session) to see what's there?

Most likely that will solve your problems, but you haven't said exactly what you're trying to do, and every time you say it, it changes to something different than Befor 😉 ( I crack myself up some times....)

this email will verify if the merchant postback is made shortly afterward -- it will serve as a cue to look for the postback(not much leeway for a real-time e-service, which this is). Also, my gateway only makes a single postback attempt, another reason I'm starting to become email-reliant.

Sounds like PayPal's IPN service. You would want the merchant service to return the user to your script which will look for the posted information and send an email. Or something like that.