passing ajax variable to email form

[ourmanflint]

Hi

I've just installed a nifty "subscribe to my newsletter" form using ajax on my new test website, after a lot of twiddling, it all works well, the script I used eventually writes the collected emails to a text file called "file.txt" by a script called write.php as below.

<?php
$var = ', '.$_GET['var'];

$fp = @fopen("file.txt", "a") or die("Couldn't open file.txt for writing! ". $var );
$numBytes = @fwrite($fp, $var) or die("Couldn't write values to file! " .$var );

@fclose($fp);
?>

now what I want it to do is send me an email with the request instead of writing to file.txt. How can I do that?

Thanks

[jeepin81]

Using PHP's mail() function should do the trick.

SAMPLE:

<?php
$msg  = "samleinfo:----------$_POST[sampleinfo]\n";
$msg .= "samleinfo:----------$_POST[samleinfo]\n";
$msg .= "samleinfo:----------$_POST[samleinfo]\n";
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Info Submited ";
$mailheaders = "From: $_POST[samleinfo]\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-to: $_POST[samleinfo]";
mail ($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

This is assuming they're filling out a from where you can pass the variables via $_POST[].

Hope that helps.
j

[ourmanflint]

Hi

I should have said the variable is passed using the GET method as below

new Ajax.Request( 'images/scripts/ajax_email/email/write.php?var='+encodeURIComponent(email), {method:'get', onSuccess:Rcvd, onFailure:Failed});

Would that still work??

[ourmanflint]

I thought I had it all worked out, but still not passing email variable correctly.

Can anyone suggest a simple script to send the email. I tried this with no luck.

<?php
$var = ', '.$_GET['var'];

$email = $_GET['email'] ;

mail( "[e-mail]", "newsletter subscription request",
$message, "From: $email" );

?>

Many thanks