PHP Email / Form Linking

[PatrickH]

Hello all,

Thanks for taking the time to read this and your time if you do try and help me. It's greatly appreciated.

Here is my question:
I'm using JCart on my latest project and instead of sending the checkout process to PayPal, i've changed the code to send an email to a specified address.

Now I need to be able to insert my own form into the JCart checkout page.

Here is my form: http://choice-caskets.com/form.php

Here is the actual checkout page: http://choice-caskets.com/checkout.php

And here is my PHP handler in the cart:

<?php
// JCART v1.1
// http://conceptlogic.com/jcart/

// THIS FILE IS CALLED WHEN ANY BUTTON ON THE CHECKOUT PAGE (PAYPAL CHECKOUT, UPDATE, OR EMPTY) IS CLICKED
// WE CAN ONLY DEFINE ONE FORM ACTION, SO THIS FILE ALLOWS US TO FORK THE FORM SUBMISSION DEPENDING ON WHICH BUTTON WAS CLICKED
// ALSO ALLOWS US TO VERIFY PRICES BEFORE SUBMITTING TO PAYPAL

// INCLUDE JCART BEFORE SESSION START
include_once 'jcart.php';

// START SESSION
session_start();

// INITIALIZE JCART AFTER SESSION START
$cart =& $_SESSION['jcart']; if(!is_object($cart)) $cart = new jcart();

// WHEN JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED THE UPDATE AND EMPTY BUTTONS ARE DISPLAYED
// RE-DISPLAY THE CART IF THE VISITOR CLICKS EITHER BUTTON
if ($_POST['jcart_update_cart']  || $_POST['jcart_empty'])
   {

   // UPDATE THE CART
   if ($_POST['jcart_update_cart'])
      {
      $cart_updated = $cart->update_cart();
      if ($cart_updated !== true)
         {
         $_SESSION['quantity_error'] = true;
         }
      }

   // EMPTY THE CART
   if ($_POST['jcart_empty'])
      {
      $cart->empty_cart();
      }

   // REDIRECT BACK TO THE CHECKOUT PAGE
   header('Location: ' . $_POST['jcart_checkout_page']);
   exit;
   }

// THE VISITOR HAS CLICKED THE PAYPAL CHECKOUT BUTTON
else
   {

   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   /*

   A malicious visitor may try to change item prices before checking out,
   either via javascript or by posting from an external script.

   Here you can add PHP code that validates the submitted prices against
   your database or validates against hard-coded prices.

   The cart data has already been sanitized and is available thru the
   $cart->get_contents() function. For example:

   foreach ($cart->get_contents() as $item)
      {
      $item_id   = $item['id'];
      $item_name   = $item['name'];
      $item_price   = $item['price'];
      $item_qty   = $item['qty'];
      }

   */
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

   $valid_prices = true;

   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

   // IF THE SUBMITTED PRICES ARE NOT VALID
   if ($valid_prices !== true)
      {
      // KILL THE SCRIPT
      die($jcart['text']['checkout_error']);
      }

   // PRICE VALIDATION IS COMPLETE
   // SEND CART CONTENTS TO PAYPAL USING THEIR UPLOAD METHOD, FOR DETAILS SEE http://tinyurl.com/djoyoa
   else if ($valid_prices === true)
      {

// Here we will construct a new email message to be sent to the merchant
//  upon completion of the checkout process. The example message below is
//  intentionally simplistic, and meant to be modified to your preferences.
$message = "New Order:\n\n";
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
     'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
      'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

  foreach ($cart->get_contents() as $item)
     {
     $message .= 'Item: ' . $item['name'];
     $message .= "\nPrice: " . $item['price'];
     $message .= "\nQuantity: " . $item['qty'];
     $message .= "\n\n";
     }

// The following line uses PHP's built-in mail() function to send the email.
//  Most servers/hosts support this method by default, while others may
//  require it to be enabled, or configured differently. For more information
//  about the mail() function see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
//
// The function call returns a boolean value indicating whether the mail was
//  successfully accepted by the server's mail daemon for delivery.
$mailSent = mail('[e-mail]', 'Casket Order', $message, $headers);

  // EMPTY THE CART
  $cart->empty_cart();

  // Done! You can either output a purchase "reciept" here, or redirect the
  //  user to another page.
  echo "<h1>Order Sent!</h1>";

  }
   }
?>

Now what I need to know is this: What is the best way to implement my form into that email handler? I know I can simply add "$var_name1=element_name, etc", and then add "$message=$var_name1, $message=$var_name2, etc", however I was wondering if there is a way to send the whole form with a few lines of code?

Or if I do send the variables individually, if I can style the email to look nice a clean maybe with some divs, borders,etc. in the email. PHP is not my language and is somewhat foreign to me. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Patrick H.