Help with making my form send a confirmation email to user

[Geezer D]

Hi, all.

My client has a form on their site which they want me to add a function to which sends the user a confirmation email with a title like "Please send us more information for a more precise quote", and a message like "We received your form submission, but to give you a more precise..etc, etc"

I'm nearly clueless on PHP, can anyone out there give me the code I'd need to do this?

This is the form as it is now:

		<?
			// EMAILRIFIC Check

			function checkValidEmail($addy)
			{
				list($userName, $mailDomain) = split("@", $addy);

				if(!stristr($mailDomain,'.'))
				{
					return false;
				}
				else if(checkdnsrr($mailDomain, "MX"))
				{
					return true;
				}
				else
				{
					return false;
				}
			}

		if($_REQUEST['go'])
		{
			if(!$_REQUEST['name']){
				$error .= "Please Enter Your Name<br>";
			}
			if(!$_REQUEST['company']){
				$error .= "Please Enter a Company Name<br>";
			}
                        if(!$_REQUEST['employees']){
				$error .= "Please Enter Number of Employees<br>";
			}
			if(!$_REQUEST['email']){
				$error .= "Please Enter a Valid Email Address<br>";
			}
			else if(!checkValidEmail($_REQUEST['email'])){
				$error .= "The Email Address You Entered Does Not Appear To Be Valid<br>";
			}
			if(!$_REQUEST['message']){
				$error .= "Please Enter a Message To Be Sent<br>";
			}
			include("securimage/securimage.php");
			$img = new Securimage();
			$valid = $img->check($_POST['code']);
			if($valid == false)
			{
				$error .= "The code you entered was invalid to continue, please enter the code again<br />";
			}
			if(!$error)
			{
				$message = "A contact request has been filled out at your website with the following information. \n \n".

				"Name: ".$_REQUEST["name"]." \n".
				"Company Name: ".$_REQUEST["company"]." \n".
                                "Number of Employees: ".$_REQUEST["employees"]." \n".
				"Phone: ".$_REQUEST["phone"]." \n".
				"Email: ".$_REQUEST["email"]." \n\n".

				"Message: \n".

				$_REQUEST["message"];

				$to      = 'info@thesite.com';
				$subject = 'The Site Website Contact Form';
				$headers =	'From: '.$_REQUEST["name"].' <'.$_REQUEST["email"].'>' . "\r\n" .
							'Reply-To: '.$_REQUEST["name"].' <'.$_REQUEST["email"].'>' . "\r\n" .
							'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

				echo "<h2>Thank You.</h1>
				<p>Your Message has been sent, and we will be in contact shortly!</p>";
			}

		}
		if(!$_REQUEST['go'] || $error)
		{
			if($error){ echo '<b>'.$error.'</b>';}
		?>
			
        	<form action="information2.php" method="post">
			<table width='100%' cellpadding="4">
			<tbody>
			<tr>
				<td class="TableBody1">
				*Name</td>
				<td>
					<input name='name' type='text' id='name' value="<?=$_REQUEST[name];?>" size='30' />
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td class="TableBody1">
				*Company</td>
				<td>
					<input name='company' type='text' id='company' value="<?=$_REQUEST[company];?>" size='30' />
</td>			</tr>
              <tr>
				<td class="TableBody1">
				*Number of Employees</td>
				<td>
					<input name='employees' type='text' id='employees' value="<?=$_REQUEST[employees];?>" size='6' />
				</td>		</tr>
			<tr>
				<td class="TableBody1">
				&nbsp;Phone</td>
				<td>
					<input name='phone' type='text' id='phone' value="<?=$_REQUEST[phone];?>" size='30' />
				</td>	</tr>
			<tr>
				<td class="TableBody1">
				*Email Address</td>
<td>	<input name='email' type='text' id='email' value="<?=$_REQUEST[email];?>" size='30' />
				</td>	</tr>
			<tr>
				<td valign="top" class="TableBody1">
				*Message</td>
				<td>
					<textarea id='message' rows='6' cols='50' name='message'><?=$_REQUEST[message];?></textarea>
				</td>	</tr>
			<tr>
				<td valign="top" class="TableBody1">&nbsp;</td>
				<td>
<p>To send your message, please fill out the box below with the code in the image</p>
<img src="securimage/securimage_show.php?sid=<?php echo md5(uniqid(time())); ?>"><br />
<input type="text" name="code" id="code" value="" />
				</td>	</tr>
			<tr><td></td>
<td>	<input type='submit' value='Submit' name='go' />
				</td>	</tr>	</tbody></table>
			</form>
		<? } ?>

Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Ross]

Here is the quick and dirty way to do it:

Copy this code:

$message = "A contact request has been filled out at your website with the following information. \n \n".

				"Name: ".$_REQUEST["name"]." \n".
				"Company Name: ".$_REQUEST["company"]." \n".
                                "Number of Employees: ".$_REQUEST["employees"]." \n".
				"Phone: ".$_REQUEST["phone"]." \n".
				"Email: ".$_REQUEST["email"]." \n\n".

				"Message: \n".

				$_REQUEST["message"];

				$to      = 'info@thesite.com';
				$subject = 'The Site Website Contact Form';
				$headers =	'From: '.$_REQUEST["name"].' <'.$_REQUEST["email"].'>' . "\r\n" .
							'Reply-To: '.$_REQUEST["name"].' <'.$_REQUEST["email"].'>' . "\r\n" .
							'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

And paste it just below it's self.

Then change the to variable $to = $_REQUEST['email'];
Then edit the $message variable to the message you would like sent.

[Geezer D]

The headers are wrong, though.
It makes a message from the user, so they will end up emailing the info back to themselves.

[Geezer D]

Got it, just replaced $message with $moreinfo and hard-coded in the company email:

$moreinfo = "This is the message the user will get telling them what they need to send in to you. \n \n".

				$_REQUEST["moreinfo"];
				
				$to = $_REQUEST['email'];
				$subject = 'Company request for additional information';
				$headers =	"From: info@ffff.com\r\n" .
							"Reply-To: info@ffff.com\r\n" .
							'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

[Geezer D]

And THANKS!

[Geezer D]

Actually, one more question:

How can I make the $moreinfo into something I can put html code in?

I have

$moreinfo = "This is the message the user will get telling them 
                             what they need to send in to you. \n \n".

But really need:

$moreinfo = <h1 class="blah">Blah blah</h1>
                 <p class="blah">Blah blah</p>

[djr33]

PHP echoes text-- sure, it can be html.

$moreinfo = "<h1 class="blah">Blah blah</h1>
                 <p class="blah">Blah blah</p>";

Is that what you need? You can also include variables in it if you want...

[Geezer D]

lol, I just realized, it's going to be in the body of an email, so HTML won't work, it'll just show the tags around the text.

And that's something else I have no idea how to do, make html email messages.