How to Save sent mail

[zed420]

Hi All

 

Is there way that I can save my sent mail that I have sent via php?

 

Thanks

Zed

[webguy1620]

Sure, why don't you just save it to a table or something of that nature?

[DeanWhitehouse]

where the code sends the mail make it save the details to a database or flat file storage system.

 

The database could be set up like:

Database setup

id INT 11 Primary Key auto_increment

sender VARCHAR 20

recipient TEXT

message TEXT

time_sent TIMESTAMP CURRENT TIMESTAMP

sender would not be needed if it is always sent by one person, and recipient can be changed to a number if you have a members table with unique id's.

[iversonm]

ya so basically you have your title, body, and who you sent it to

just insert it into a table if the sending is successful

so something like this

 

$mail=mail($recipient, $subject, $mail_body, $header);

if($mail){//mail was sent correctly

$q="INSERT INTO mail ...." etc i think you should know how to insert into a database if not tell me and ill actually type it out

then query $q so ya you should know how to do that too

 

}else{//mail was not sent so i would report this too so you can see when you dont have mail sent succressfully

do something to report mail not setn

 

}

[DeanWhitehouse]

I would say it would be better to save it even if it was unsuccessful, this way you can find out what people have failed to send and if need be recover it.

 

<?php
$mail=mail($recipient, $subject, $mail_body, $header);
if($mail)
{
   $success = 1;//means successful
}
else
{
   $success = 0;//means un-successful
}
mysql_query("INSET INTO table (row,success) VALUES ('value','$success')");
?>

[zed420]

My sincere thanks go to all of you who helped me on this . 

Specially  Blade280891 , iversonm and webguy1620 you guys were brilliant.

 

Thank you

Zed