Auto email Responder qustion

[mahoney]

Hi everybody I really need some help so if someone out there knows how to do this please respond.

I have a form that looks like this:

  <form action="mailForm.php" method="post">
      <input type="hidden" value="[e-mail]" name="recipient" />
      <!-- Replace email address with the address you want the email sent to -->
      <input type="hidden" value="contactResult.html" name="redirect" />
      <table width="625" border="0" align="center">
        <tr>
          <td width="347">Company Name:<span style="color:red">*</span><br />
            <input type="text" name="company" class="input" /></td>
          <td width="262">Target Audience:<span style="color:red">*</span><br />
            <input type="text" name="audience" class="input" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan="2"><br />
            Description of Business:<span style="color:red">*</span><br />
            <textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="description"></textarea></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><br />
            Full Name:<span style="color:red">*</span><br />
            <input type="text" name="name" class="input"  /></td>
          <td><br />
            Email:<span style="color:red">*</span><br />
            <input type="text" name="email" class="input"  /></td>
        </tr>
</table>
</form>

the whole mailForm.php file looks like this:

<?php
//grab the server time
$current_time = strftime("Request was sent on %B %d, at %H:%M%p ");

//get company info
$companyName = "Biz-plete";
$companyEmail = "[e-mail]";

//fetch user post vars
foreach( $_POST as $key => $val)
{
	$$key = $val;
}


//build mail
$to = $_POST['recipient'];
$subject = $companyName . " Form Submission!";

$msg =
"This is an automated message sent from the " . $companyName . " web site." . "\n\n" .
$current_time . "\n" .
"\n" .
"The following information was submitted: " . "\n" .
"------------START-------------" . "\n" .
"\n" .
"Company:" . $company . "\n" .
"\n" .
"Taget Audience:" . $audience . "\n" .
"\n" .
"Description of Business:" . $description . "\n" .
"\n" .
"Full Name:" . $name . "\n" .
"\n" .
"Email:" . $email . "\n" .
"\n" .
"---------------END--------------------" . "\n";

//send mail
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
$headers .= "From: \"".$companyName."\" <".$companyEmail.">\n";	

mail("$to", stripslashes($subject), stripslashes($msg), $headers) or die("Could not send e-mail - Error A46GY7");

//send the user to the response page
$redirect = "Location: " . $_POST['redirect'];
header($redirect);

?>

My question is how would i send an auto responder when someone fills their email in the appropriate field in the form????

Does that make sense? PLEASE HELP!

[dagon]

your saying the above does not work? what happens after the submit button is pressed?

[mahoney]

yes this all works fine, I just wanna know how i can make an auto response for the person filling out the form

[dagon]

mail($email,'subject','body');

[mahoney]

so would i add this to what i already have? how should i use this?

[dagon]

try the wonderful manual on how to use the mail() function

[mahoney]

cool man, thanks! this helped a lot. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.