Can I email automatically?

[ginginca]

A number of years ago I paid someone to write some code for a directory site for me. (It's a small regional site with free submissions.)

Since that time, I am unable to reach the programmer, however I have started to learn php and am now taking a college course in it. However my skills are still very limited, so when you answer, I respectfully ask that you reply in a way that I can understand. I'm still a newbie afterall.

I have been successfully making my own changes to the code. But here's the next step I would like to take it to.

I have an admin panel, where I have a button that will display it in the directory, and 2nd one not display it.

<input type="submit" name="<?echo "accept".$other_info[0];?>" value="Yes">
        </td>        

        <td>
        <input type="submit" name="<?echo "decline".$other_info[0];?>" value="No">
        </td>   

When submissions are approved, I manually send an email to let them know they're up. (Since it's only 5-7 a week it's not a big deal.)

Is it a complicated to process, to add something to this button that will send them the message without ME having to send it?

[cahva]

Its pretty straight forward. Read the examples for mail() in the manual to get the idea.

I guess you have some action already in the admin-panel where you approve? Then just stick that email-code to that part of the code where submissions are approved.

[ginginca]

Thanks for the reply. I'll investigate that. I have a copy of Zend, and all the snippets are way to complex for what I'm trying to accomplish.