Email Me Every Time Someone Registers on Site

[seoreferrals]

I am trying to get my ready-made script to send an email to me every time someone signs up or registers on the site. I just want to be notified as the admin of the site on every new registration.

I am not a programmer, but I am tech savvy as I've worked as a systems engineer for years. I assume it will have something to do with modification of the form processing script (signup.php), like a call to mail() function. However, I am unsure how about the coding, syntax, and placement of the function. Please help. Thanks.

[sneakyimp]

Start by reading the documentation on [man]mail[/man]. It will have code examples.

I prefer to use things like PEAR Mail or PHPMailer.

[mrbaseball34]

Here is how we do it in one of our apps:

$to      = '[e-mail]' ;
$from    = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "New registration";
$message = "There has been a new registration on the site";
$headers = "From: Site Registration <".$from.">\r\n" .
         "Reply-To:".$from."\r\n" .
         "Return-Path: <".$from.">\r\n" .
         "X-Mailer: MySite Registration Module";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

As far as where to place it? I'd look in my code where the new record is being inserted into the database, or when the newly registered user is notified of a successful registration and place it there.

[Bilbozilla]

Place it as a subroutine when the user's input is written to the database. The code listed above will do the trick.