I would like my simple php mailer form, to maintain sending me the filled out form; but also I would like to send them a confirmation message based on their inputted email address field - wondering if it's possible to send to email inserted in the form.
Eg: User fills out email address in the field as asked; this is where custom confirmation will be sent upon submit (along with form submission to me)
Note: // Same confirmation will be sent to every form user. I simply would like to write; with PHP - send this message to the email address inserted by current user in email field.
Updated:
I currently have the form submitting at my email:
$emailAddress = 'myemail@myemail.com';
I'm getting the fields with:
Email: '.$_POST['email'].'<br />
How do I edit it to send to the user inputted 'email as their email address' -- and spit out the generic message with it?
Recent attempt:
$emailAddress = 'myemail@myemail.com';
$to = $_POST['email'];
$message = 'Thank you for submitting the form on our website.!';
Form submits as normally; but doesn't send confirmation to '$to = $_POST['email'];'
Any pointers?
Complete code:
<?php
$emailAddress = 'myemail@myemail.com';
$to = $_POST['email'];
$message = 'Thank you for submitting the form on our website.!';
/* config end */
require "phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php";
session_name("fancyform");
session_start();
foreach($_POST as $k=>$v)
{
if(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc'))
$_POST[$k]=stripslashes($_POST[$k]);
$_POST[$k]=htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($_POST[$k]));
}
$err = array();
if(!checkLen('name'))
$err[]='The name field is too short or empty!';
if(!checkLen('email'))
$err[]='The email field is too short or empty!';
else if(!checkEmail($_POST['email']))
$err[]='Your email is not valid!';
/* if(!checkLen('phone'))
$err[]='The phone field is too short or empty!'; */
/*if(!checkLen('subject'))
$err[]='You have not selected a subject!';*/
/* if(!checkLen('message'))
$err[]='The message field is too short or empty!';*/
if((int)$_POST['captcha'] != $_SESSION['expect'])
$err[]='The captcha code is wrong!';
if(count($err))
{
if($_POST['ajax'])
{
echo '-1';
}
else if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])
{
$_SESSION['errStr'] = implode('<br />',$err);
$_SESSION['post']=$_POST;
header('Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
}
exit;
}
$msg=
'Name: '.$_POST['name'].'<br />
Phone: '.$_POST['phone'].'<br />
Email: '.$_POST['email'].'<br />
IP: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'<br /><br />
Referred By: '.$_POST['referer'].'<br /><br />
Message:<br /><br />
'.nl2br($_POST['message']).'
';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsMail();
$mail->AddReplyTo($_POST['email'], $_POST['name']);
$mail->AddAddress($emailAddress);
$mail->SetFrom($_POST['email'], $_POST['name']);
$mail->Subject = "A new Bridgetower.com Lead".mb_strtolower($_POST['subject'])." from ".$_POST['name']." | Via your contact form feedback";
$mail->MsgHTML($msg);
$mail->Send();
unset($_SESSION['post']);
if($_POST['ajax'])
{
echo '1';
}
else
{
$_SESSION['sent']=1;
if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])
header('Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
exit;
}
function checkLen($str,$len=2)
{
return isset($_POST[$str]) && mb_strlen(strip_tags($_POST[$str]),"utf-8") > $len;
}
function checkEmail($str)
{
return preg_match("/^[\.A-z0-9_\-\+]+[@][A-z0-9_\-]+([.][A-z0-9_\-]+)+[A-z]{1,4}$/", $str);
}
?>
How could I output:
$to = $_POST['email'];
$message = 'Thank you for submitting the form on our website.!';
Have a look at PHPMailer. It's a pretty hand library for sending emails.
You can then just use GET or POST variables to send the email to the server
Sure you can do this. It's just as straight forward as it sounds. I recommend using a mailer helper like phpmailer, but you do it with the php mail function as well.
//check the email is real
if (filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = 'Thanks for filling out my form';
$message = 'The message';
$headers = 'From: me@mywebsite.com' . "
" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@mywebsite.com' . "
" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
straight outta the manual
I believe you are looking for the built-in PHP mail() function. You post a form to your PHP page, with HTML like so:
<form action="your_php_script.php" method="post">
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" />
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
And your_php_script.php like so:
<?php
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = 'Confirmation E-mail';
$message = 'Thank you for submitting the form on our website.';
$headers = 'From: donotreply@yoursite.com' . "
" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@yoursite.com' . "
" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>