Sending Email to admin once customer Registers - HELP!

[jjfletcher90]

Hello all... Need your help please!

 

Is it possible to have the website administrator receive an email that a customer has registered for my Members Area? Is this accomplished with the Register.php file or is this only done through the MYSQL Database? The customer is sent an email of the event - yet the admin has to go to the database manually to see if someone has registered ... not very efficient...

 

Here is my Register.PHP file ...

 

<?

include 'db.php';

// Define post fields into simple variables
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email_address'];
$username = $_POST['username'];
$info = $_POST['info'];

/* Let's strip some slashes in case the user entered
any escaped characters. */

$first_name = stripslashes($first_name);
$last_name = stripslashes($last_name);
$email_address = stripslashes($email_address);
$username = stripslashes($username);
$info = stripslashes($info);


/* Do some error checking on the form posted fields */

if((!$first_name) || (!$last_name) || (!$email_address) || (!$username)){
        echo 'You did not submit the following required information! <br />';
        if(!$first_name){
                echo "First Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
        }
        if(!$last_name){
                echo "Last Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
        }
        if(!$email_address){
                echo "Email Address is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
        }
        if(!$username){
                echo "Desired Username is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
        }
        include 'join_form.html'; // Show the form again!
        /* End the error checking and if everything is ok, we'll move on to
         creating the user account */
        exit(); // if the error checking has failed, we'll exit the script!
}

/* Let's do some checking and ensure that the user's email address or username
does not exist in the database */

$sql_email_check = mysql_query("SELECT email_address FROM users WHERE email_address='$email_address'");
$sql_username_check = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE username='$username'");

$email_check = mysql_num_rows($sql_email_check);
$username_check = mysql_num_rows($sql_username_check);

if(($email_check > 0) || ($username_check > 0)){
        echo "Please fix the following errors: <br />";
        if($email_check > 0){
                echo "<strong>Your email address has already been used by another member in our database. Please submit a different Email address!<br />";
                unset($email_address);
        }
        if($username_check > 0){
                echo "The username you have selected has already been used by another member in our database. Please choose a different Username!<br />";
                unset($username);
        }
        include 'join_form.html'; // Show the form again!
        exit();  // exit the script so that we do not create this account!
}

/* Everything has passed both error checks that we have done.
It's time to create the account! */

/* Random Password generator.

We'll generate a random password for the
user and encrypt it, email it and then enter it into the db.
*/

function makeRandomPassword() {
  $salt = "abchefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
        $i = 0;
        while ($i <= 7) {
                $num = rand() % 33;
                $tmp = substr($salt, $num, 1);
                $pass = $pass . $tmp;
                $i++;
        }
        return $pass;
}

$random_password = makeRandomPassword();

$db_password = md5($random_password);

// Enter info into the Database.
$info2 = htmlspecialchars($info);
$sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (first_name, last_name, email_address, username, password, info, signup_date)
                VALUES('$first_name', '$last_name', '$email_address', '$username', '$db_password', '$info2', now())") or die (mysql_error());

if(!$sql){
        echo 'There has been an error creating your account. Please contact the webmaster.';
} else {
        $userid = mysql_insert_id();
        // Let's mail the user!
        $subject = "Membership Area";
        $message = "Dear $first_name $last_name,
        Thank you for registering at our website, http://www.website.com!

        You are two steps away from logging in and accessing our exclusive members area.

        To activate your membership, please click here: http://www.website.com/members/Members_ ... b_password

        Once you activate your memebership, you will be able to login with the following information:
        Username: $username
        Password: $random_password

        Thanks!
        The Webmaster

        This is an automated response, please do not reply!";

        mail($email_address, $subject, $message, "From: Webmaster<[email protected]>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
        echo 'Your membership access is now being created and will be completed within minutes - information will be emailed to you with your activation instructions! If you have any additional questions please call XXX-XXX-XXXX';
}

?>

 

 

Thanks...  John

[Jeffro]

Hi John,

 

I may be the worst php guy around, so if nothing else, I'll provide a bump for you.   

 

I just added the following to my post.php page (accessed after the user hits submit on the form):

mail('[email protected]', 'My subject', 'the message', null,'[email protected]');

 

I stuck it right before doing the db insert and I confirmed that it shot me an email.  So maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but using this and simply substituting variables in there should do the trick? 

 

Kind regards,

 

[TeNDoLLA]

How can this Jeffro's example work at all(?) You are giving NULL as 4th parameter which is the place for the email headers. And according to php's manual you MUST give atleast the From: <[email protected]> header.

[Jeffro]

How can this Jeffro's example work at all(?) You are giving NULL as 4th parameter which is the place for the email headers. And according to php's manual you MUST give atleast the From: <[email protected]> header.

 

It uses the additional_parameters parameter.

 

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

 

.....tested it, and it worked.  I'm giving it the -f (from) paramater right after the NULL.

 

This TeNDoLLA can try it and see. 

[TeNDoLLA]

Yeah noticed, forget what I said above.