mail and update

[heyhey01]

I have made a members page where user input information into a form and it updates a certain table in the database. now when the user clicks on the submit button and updates the table in the database i want it to send me an email telling me there's been an update in the database and also what information has been added.

can anyone help me with  what to do.

here is the form code below. the names of things have been changed.

<tr><td>M name	:</td><td>
<input type="text" name="mname" maxlength="60">
</td></tr>
<tr><td>please enter</td><td>
<input type="text" name="hheight" maxlength="11">
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Please enter height</td><td>
<input type="text" name="height" maxlength="11">
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Please enter  the  </td><td>
<input type="text" name="area" maxlength="30">
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Please enter  the  number</td><td>
<input type="text" name="numb" maxlength="11">
</td></tr>
<tr><th colspan=2><input type="submit" name="submit" value="update"></th></tr> </table>
</form>

 

[TeddyKiller]

Send YOU an email, and not the user an email?

Can you post the PHP including with this form?

[heyhey01]

Send YOU an email, and not the user an email?

Can you post the PHP including with this form?

Yes it is just  email me when there is an update. Also am not sure what to write php wise for getting it to email me.

could u give me an example on what to do?

[TeddyKiller]

Well you said you've set it so that it updates the database. After the query you do to update the database, you'd put in something like..

		$to = 'Your email address here'
		$subject = "Your subject here";
		$message  = "Your message will go here, including all variables etc.";
		$header  = "From: $name <no-reply@horble.com> " . "\r\n";

		$send = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

 

Simple huh?

[heyhey01]

do i need to use somthing like phpmailer when trying to get the email to send after the update button has been clicked?

[TeddyKiller]

No. I gave you a piece of code to use.

[heyhey01]

Were in my coding should i put the code you gave me?

[oni-kun]

Where you want it to send the e-mail. Access the variables from your form via $_POST, If you need help with that just ask.

[heyhey01]

am now getting a parse error.

[heyhey01]

Where you want it to send the e-mail. Access the variables from your form via $_POST, If you need help with that just ask.

Yes please can i have some help with that.

[oni-kun]

What does the error contain? You can see for yourself what POST elements are like this:

<?php 
  if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
     
        print "Name = " . $_POST['mname'] . "<br/>"; //Example showing POST element
        print_r($_POST); //List all the Data to see what was sent
  }
?>

 

I'd recommend you view tutorials though on what you're doing.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/forms.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php