How do you make the Submit button on a form send the customer an email? Options

[kbed1138]

I made a form for the company i work for. I got it all working correctly, and when the customer hits the Submit button, it takes them to a page that says "thank you for your order". I want to have an E-mail sent off to the customer as well, with a summary of there order, such as what they ordered and a time frame of when they can expect it to arrive, etc. Can this be done with PHP? I'm not much of a web designer, and don't know where to begin to get this to work. Thanks in advance.

the PHP Code i currently have is:

CODE

  
<?php

/* Subject and email Variables    */

    $emailSubject = 'Key Order';
    $webMaster = 'keyorder@homakmfg.com';
    
/* Gathering Data Variables*/

    $dateField = $_POST['Date'];
    $firstnameField = $_POST['FirstName'];
    $lastnameField = $_POST['LastName'];
    $addressoneField = $_POST['AddressOne'];
    $addresstwoField = $_POST['AddressTwo'];
    $cityField = $_POST['City'];
    $stateField = $_POST['State'];
    $zippostalcodeField = $_POST['ZipPostalCode'];
    $countryField = $_POST['Country'];
    $phonenumberField = $_POST['PhoneNumber'];
    $emailField = $_POST['Email'];
    $creditcardField = $_POST['CreditCard'];
    $cardnumberField = $_POST['CardNumber'];
    $expirationField = $_POST['ExpirationDate'];
    $itemoneField = $_POST['ItemOne'];
    $keycodeoneField = $_POST['KeycodeOne'];
    $specialinstructionsoneField = $_POST['SpecialInstructionsOne'];
    $itemtwoField = $_POST['ItemTwo'];
    $keycodetwoField = $_POST['KeycodeTwo'];
    $specialinstructionstwoField = $_POST['SpecialInstructionsTwo'];
    $itemthreeField = $_POST['ItemThree'];
    $keycodethreeField = $_POST['KeycodeThree'];
    $specialinstructionsthreeField = $_POST['SpecialInstructionsThree'];
    
    $body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Date: $dateField <br/>
First Name: $firstnameField <br>
Last Name: $lastnameField <br>
Address Line One: $addressoneField <br>
Address Line Two: $addresstwoField <br>
City: $cityField <br>
State: $stateField <br>
Zip Code: $zippostalcodeField <br>
Country: $countryField <br>
Phone: $phonenumberField <br>
Email: $emailField <br>
Credit Card: $creditcardField <br>
Card Number: $cardnumberField <br>
Expiration Date: $expirationField <br>
Item One: $itemoneField <br>
Key Code One: $keycodeoneField <br>
Special Instructions: $specialinstructionsoneField <br>
Item Two: $itemtwoField <br>
Key Code Two: $keycodetwoField <br>
Special Instructions Two: $specialinstructionstwoField <br>
Item Three: $itemthreeField <br>
Key Code Three: $keycodethreeField <br>
Special Instructions Three: $specialinstructionsthreeField <br>
EOD;

    $headers = "From: $emailField\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
    $success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);
    
/* Results Rendered as Html*/
    
    $theResults = <<<EOD
Thank you for your Order!
EOD;
echo "$theResults";
    
?>

[Christian J]

Doesn't the script above already send an email and print the text "Thank you for your Order!"?

[Christian J]

Don't put quote marks on vars.

Why not, if it's doublequotes? Unless you meant this part:

CODE

echo "$theResults";

where it seems unnecessary (but not an error).

Sanitize data, with HTMLspecialchars();

True, at least if it's an HTML email. But in that case it probably needs more HTML than just the BR elements in the example above (not sure of the details).

and yes, just make a new mail query like such.

Oh, the script should send two emails, one to the company and one to the customer? I missed that part before.