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[Alidad]

hi, guys, I have been working on email from php mailer. most of this code are working great. but one small problme that i can't figure out how to solve this.

I have registration forms, comes with name, email, password and country.
when filled out and submit it then send data to mysql. that first process works great.

After that it will send to process.php what they do is they send email to the person who sign up for email conformation for activation account, the problme is that they don't know who to send to, more like what funtion going to be for email.

here what i did...

One of text field for email function name is email.

please see code and see in underline -bold, what do i need to put to get email address where to send to.

process.php

<?php
require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.comcast.net"; // SMTP server
$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
[U][B]$mail->AddAddress(" ");[/B][/U]

$mail->Subject = "your conformation";
$mail->Body="Your Comfirmation link \r\n";
$mail->Body="Click on this link to activate your account \r\n";
$mail->Body="http://localhost/xxxx/EmailTest/confirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code";
$mail->WordWrap = 50;



if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo 'Message was not sent.';
   echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
   echo 'Message has been sent.';
}
?> 

I need your help please.

thanks.

AM

[Xager]

You add the addess:

$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]");

And also:

http://localhost/xxxx/EmailTest/confirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code

You can't give a link to localhost, it has to be to your server

[Alidad]

we can't put email address there $mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]");
because, let say if i put my email address, then when other people sign up it will send to my email for email conformation. then they will not recieve email conformation.

this part is for email conformation, when person signup in our froms (name, email, password and country), and when i created in php mailer, is works fine except email address from the forms. so what would i need to put there to retreive email address from that text field.

I hope everyone undersand what I'm saying!

AM

[Xager]

Well just add the email that was entered?

$mail->AddAddress($_POST['email']);

[Alidad]

i have tried that is not working either, the first file "signup.php" is the registration forms and send data with email conformation numbr to mysql that works great.

Then in the second file "textemail.php" is php mailer, is send email conformation to the person who sign up, which is going to be $mail->AddAddress($_POST['email']);But person is not getting email conformation.

The 'textemail.php" code, please see code in underline-bold

require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.comcast.net"; // SMTP server
$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->AddAddress($_POST['email']);

$mail->Subject = "First PHPMailer Message";
$mail->Body = "Hi! \n\n This is my first e-mail sent through PHPMailer.";
$mail->WordWrap = 50;

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo 'Message was not sent.';
echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo 'Message has been sent.';
}
?>

i have tried evertyhing, i must have missing somthing.

please help thanks.

AM

[Alidad]

here what i did so far and explain again...

hi, I'm trying to to solve problme with email conformation, they are two php files. The first file 'first.php' it come with registration forms and send data to mysql with conformatin number.

after that it will send email conformation to the person who sign up for activation that file is "process.php"

The first file to send data to mysql is works great.

I use this code from dreamweaver, as you can see it sending data to mysql

First.php

<?php require_once('../Connections/emailtest.php'); ?>

<?php

$confirm_code=md5(uniqid(rand())); 
// values sent from form 
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$country=$_POST['country'];
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  $theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : $theValue;

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    

    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}

if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO temp_members_db (confirm_code, name, email, password, country) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",

				   GetSQLValueString("$confirm_code", "text"),
                   GetSQLValueString("$name", "text"),
                   GetSQLValueString("$email", "text"),
                   GetSQLValueString("$password", "text"),
                   GetSQLValueString("$country", "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_emailtest, $emailtest);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $emailtest) or die(mysql_error());

  $insertGoTo = "process.php";
  if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
    $insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";
    $insertGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

  }

  header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
}
?>

and then in process.php showing .... please see part where it said "$mail->AddAddress($_POST['email'];

<?php
require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.comcast.net"; // SMTP server
$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->AddAddress($_POST['email'];
$mail->Subject = "your conformation";
$mail->Body="Your Comfirmation link \r\n";
$mail->Body="Click on this link to activate your account \r\n";
$mail->Body="http://localhost/ourdeafworld/EmailTest/confirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code";
$mail->WordWrap = 50;



if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo 'Message was not sent.';
   echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
   echo 'Message has been sent.';
}
?> 

but is not sending email to the person who sign up for conformation. what did i missed in part of "$_POST['email'];"

please help me thanks.

AM

[daredevil14]

hey why don't you start a session immediately after the insert of the email... save the email to a session variable, and then retrieve it in the process.php ?

e.g. :

<?php
// HTML Forms
// Arrived to email input box
// after submitting the form... create the following :
$_SESSION["email"] = $_POST["email"];
// ...
?>

and in the process.php page :

<?php
// ...
$mail->AddAddress($_SESSION['email']);
// ...
?>

and hey if it works, don't forget to "destroy" the session and its email variable, after the sending the email...