Who knows how to send form submissions via email?

Posted: 20 January 2007 03:22 PM

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I suspect there’s an easy way to send all the contents of a form to an email address, natively with CodeIgnitor scripting, but I thought I’d first try some PHP techniques I’ve used in the past with the Email library. Well, it’s not working. Here’s the entire controller:

// this first part handles the Lead_Request checkbox array from the form

 if (isset($_POST['Lead_Request']) && is_array($_POST['Lead_Request']))
        {
          $_POST['Lead_Request'] = implode(", ", $_POST['Lead_Request']);
        }
    
        $this->db->insert('leads', $_POST);

// insert works without everything below
            
        $Lead_Date = $_POST('Lead_Date');
        $First_Name = $_POST['First_Name']; 
        $Last_Name = $_POST['Last_Name']; 
        $Company = $_POST['Company']; 
        $Title = $_POST['Title']; 
        $Phone = $_POST['Phone']; 
        $Email = $_POST['Email']; 
        $Opt_in = $_POST['Opt_in']; 
        $AcctPackage = $_POST['AcctPackage']; 
        $Lead_Received = $_POST['Lead_Received']; 
        $Lead_Source = $_POST['Lead_Source']; 
        $Promotion_Code = $_POST['Promotion_Code']; 
        $Lead_Request = $_POST['Lead_Request']; 
        $Situation = $_POST['Situation']; 
        $Comments = $_POST['Comments'];

        $body = 'The following user has submitted a lead from the Internal Lead Form:\n\nName: $First_Name                 $Last_Name\nCompany: $Company\nPhone Number: $Phone\nEmail: $Email\nOpt In:            $Opt_in\nAccounting Package: $AcctPackage\nLead Received: $Lead_Received\nLead Source: $Lead_Source\nPromotion Code: $Promotion_Code\nCurrent Situation: $Situation\nLead Request: $Lead_Request\n\nComments: $Comments\n';

        $this->load->library('email');
        $this->email->from('to@xyz.com', 'Todd S');
        $this->email->to('mickey@abc.com');
        $this->email->subject('Internal Lead Submission');
        $this->email->message($body);

        $this->email->send();
    
        echo $this->email->print_debugger();
    } 

Unfortunately, it doesn’t spit out any error, just a blank page. The db Insert works fine up until I set all the $_POST variables for the email. I suspect one solution might to be implode all the $_POST variables into a $body array without setting them individually, as I’ve done. I’m just not sure exactly how to do that in CodeIgnitor shorthand.

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T-Zee

Posted: 20 January 2007 03:40 PM

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Okay, so I fixed this:

$Lead_Date = $_POST['Lead_Date']
// example above had parens here 

And now I’m getting the email, but the message doesn’t contain the entire $body string. With ‘$body’ I get simple $body, which seems logical to me. But I tried that because with just $body I got the labels, but none of the real variables:

The following user has submitted a lead from the Internal Lead Form:nnName:
$First_Name                             $Last_NamenCompany: $CompanynPhone Number: $PhonenEmail:
$EmailnOpt In:                  $Opt_innAccounting Package: $AcctPackagenLead Received:
$Lead_ReceivednLead Source: $Lead_SourcenPromotion Code:
$Promotion_CodenCurrent Situation: $SituationnLead Request:
$Lead_RequestnnComments: $Commentsn 

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T-Zee

Posted: 20 January 2007 04:12 PM

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Okay, so now I’ve resorted to putting $_POST variables directly in the email function:


$this->email->message('A form was submitted by: '.$_POST['First_Name']);

This works, but I’m having trouble creating the line breaks with the ole “\n”

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Posted: 20 January 2007 04:39 PM

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Variables are only resolved within double quotes. This applies to escape sequences too:

$whom = "World";
echo "Hello \n $whom";        // What you want. Hello and World on next line.

echo 'Hello \n $whom";        // What you don't want. Prints everything as you see in within single quotes. 

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joeles

Posted: 20 January 2007 09:38 PM

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Crafter is right and may I also add, you are probably better off using a view to create your email message as below. It makes for much cleaner code.
Controller:

if (isset($_POST['Lead_Request']) && is_array($_POST['Lead_Request']))
        {
          $_POST['Lead_Request'] = implode(", ", $_POST['Lead_Request']);
        }
    
        $this->db->insert('leads', $_POST);

        $body = $this->load->view('email_view', $_POST, TRUE); // this will parse the view and return it as a string

        $this->load->library('email');
        $this->email->from('to@xyz.com', 'Todd S');
        $this->email->to('mickey@abc.com');
        $this->email->subject('Internal Lead Submission');
        $this->email->message($body);

        $this->email->send();
    } 

email_view.php

The following user has submitted a lead from the Internal Lead Form:

Name: <?= $First_Name  ?> <?= $Last_Name ?>
Company: <?= $Company ?>

... OTHER FIELDS HERE ...

Comments: <?= $Comments ?> 

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