Send Email in PHP When Form is Submitted

Question

I have this code for a form

 <?php
    session_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Register</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<center><table width="1074" height="768" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10" div style="width: 1065; height: *px; background:#FFFFFF;">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#88bbdd">
<body>
<?php
    if( isset($_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR']) && is_array($_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR']) && count($_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR']) >0 ) {
        echo '<ul class="err">';
        foreach($_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] as $msg) {
            echo '<li>',$msg,'</li>'; 
        }
        echo '</ul>';
        unset($_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR']);
    }
?>
<div align="center">
<table>
<form id="registerForm" name="registerForm" method="post" action="register-exec.php">
<tr>
<td><div align="left">*First Name           <td><input name="fname" type="text" class="textfield" id="fname" /></div>
<tr>
<td><div align="left">*Last Name        <td><input name="lname" type="text" class="textfield" id="lname" /></div>
<tr>
<td><div align="left">*Email Address    <td><input name="login" type="text" class="textfield" id="login" /></div>
<tr>
<td><div align="left">*Password     <td><input name="password" type="password" class="textfield" id="password" /></div>
<tr>
<td><div align="left">*Confirm Password <td><input name="cpassword" type="password" class="textfield" id="cpassword" /></div> 
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Register" />  
</form>
<br><br>* Indicates a Required Field
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Then that form runs this PHP

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = $login;

// subject
$subject = 'Subject';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Email</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Content</p> 
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: $fname $lname. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: email@mydomain.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

    <?php
        //Start session
        session_start();

        //Include database connection details
        require_once('config.php');

        //Array to store validation errors
        $errmsg_arr = array();

        //Validation error flag
        $errflag = false;

        //Connect to mysql server
        $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
        if(!$link) {
            die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
        }

        //Select database
        $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
        if(!$db) {
            die("Unable to select database");
        }

        //Function to sanitize values received from the form. Prevents SQL injection
        function clean($str) {
            $str = @trim($str);
            if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
                $str = stripslashes($str);
            }
            return mysql_real_escape_string($str);
        }

        //Sanitize the POST values
        $fname = clean($_POST['fname']);
        $lname = clean($_POST['lname']);
        $login = clean($_POST['login']);
        $password = clean($_POST['password']);
        $cpassword = clean($_POST['cpassword']);

        //Input Validations
        if($fname == '') {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'First name missing';
            $errflag = true;
        }
        if($lname == '') {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'Last name missing';
            $errflag = true;
        }
        if($login == '') {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'Email Address missing';
            $errflag = true;
        }
        if($password == '') {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'Password missing';
            $errflag = true;
        }
        if($cpassword == '') {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'Confirm password missing';
            $errflag = true;
        }
        if( strcmp($password, $cpassword) != 0 ) {
            $errmsg_arr[] = 'Passwords do not match';
            $errflag = true;
        }

        //Check for duplicate login ID
        if($login != '') {
            $qry = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE login='$login'";
            $result = mysql_query($qry);
            if($result) {
                if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
                    $errmsg_arr[] = 'Login ID already in use';
                    $errflag = true;
                }
                @mysql_free_result($result);
            }
            else {
                die("Query failed");
            }
        }

        //If there are input validations, redirect back to the registration form
        if($errflag) {
            $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;
            session_write_close();
            header("location: register-form.php");
            exit();
        }

        //Create INSERT query
        $qry = "INSERT INTO members(firstname, lastname, login, passwd) VALUES('$fname','$lname','$login','".md5($_POST['password'])."')";
        $result = @mysql_query($qry);

        //Check whether the query was successful or not
        if($result) {
            header("location: register-success.php");
            exit();
        }else {
            die("Query failed");
        }

    ?>

What I want it to do is when someone registers they get an email saying welcome. This does not work I am trying to change the 'to' to the email address they submitted in the form.

Any ideas on how I can Achieve this?

Answer 1

Disclosure: I'm one of the developers behind AlphaMail

I would recommend that you use a Transactional Email Service such as:

AlphaMail
Mailgun
SendGrid

Why?

You don't have to think that much about email delivery.
Statistics. Let's you track Total Sent/Clicks/Opens/Bounces.
Often web service-based instead of SMTP. Ie easier to handle.
Cleaner code (at least if you use AlphaMail that separates data from presentation).
Scalable and future proof.

If you choose to go with AlphaMail you could use the AlphaMail PHP-client .

Example:

include_once("comfirm.alphamail.client/emailservice.class.php");

$email_service = AlphaMailEmailService::create()
    ->setServiceUrl("http://api.amail.io/v1")
    ->setApiToken("YOUR-ACCOUNT-API-TOKEN-HERE");

$person = new stdClass();
$person->userId = "1234";
$person->firstName = "John";
$person->lastName = "Doe";
$person->dateOfBirth = 1975;

$response = $email_service->queue(EmailMessagePayload::create()
    ->setProjectId(12345) // Your AlphaMail project (determines template, options, etc)
    ->setSender(new EmailContact("Sender Company Name", "from@example.com"))
    ->setReceiver(new EmailContact("Joe Doe", "to@example.org"))
    ->setBodyObject($person) // Any serializable object
);

Another advantage with AlphaMail is that you can edit your templates directly in the AlphaMail Dashboard , and you can format your emails using the Comlang template language .

<html>
    <body>
        <b>Name:</b> <# payload.firstName " " payload.lastName #><br>
        <b>Date of Birth:</b> <# payload.dateOfBirth #><br>

        <# if (payload.userId != null) { #>
            <a href="/sign-up">Sign Up Free!</a>
        <# } else { #>
            <a href="/login?id=<# payload.userId #>">Sign In</a>
        <# } #>
    </body>
</html>

Answer 2

Use gmail as your mail server.

require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
include_once('class.smtp.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"
$body = "<html></html>"; //html stuff
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the server
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port
$mail->Username   = "id@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "password";            // GMAIL password
$mail->From       = "id@gmail.com";
$mail->FromName   = "Admin";
$mail->Subject    = "Welcome";
$mail->WordWrap   = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->AddReplyTo("id@gmail.com","Admin");
$mail->AddAddress($email_id); //receiver's id
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; 
$mail->MsgHTML($body);

if(!$mail->Send()){
  $msg = "Mailer Error: ".$mail->ErrorInfo;
  header("Location: http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/site/index.php?msg=$msg");
}else{
    $msg="Message sent successfully!";
    header("Location: http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/site/index.php?msg=$msg");
}

Download class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php and keep them in your root

EDIT:

In register-exec.php,

$to  = $_POST['login'];
$name = $_POST['fname'];
$password = $_POST['password']; // you've given the name as 'password' in your form

You can use these variables..like

$body = "<div>Hi '.$name.'!<br>Your id:'.$to.',<br>Your Password:'.$password.'</div>";

Send Email in PHP When Form is Submitted

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2 answers

solution1
2 2012-10-09 14:39:44

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Send Email in PHP When Form is Submitted

Question

2 answers

solution1 2 2012-10-09 14:39:44

solution2 0 ACCPTED 2012-10-09 09:59:29

solution1
2 2012-10-09 14:39:44

solution2
0 ACCPTED 2012-10-09 09:59:29