Email Notification for Registration Script

[tombob10]

Hi,

 

I have a written a registration script which enters the information into the db and sets MD5 and reports errors like duplicate emails.

 

However I am completely stuck on how to integrate an email notification into it.

 

Does anyone know how to do this or point me in the right direction.

[freelance84]

 

php mailer class is a pretty standard option to send emails: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/

 

[Skewled]

<?php

$actName = "Word";
$actPass = "pa$$word";

// Send the registration e-mail 
$to = $email; // Send email to our user
$subject = 'Registration Information'; // Give the email a subject
$message = '

Your Registration Information:

--------------------------
Username: '.$actName.'
Password: '.$actPass.'
--------------------------

Congratulations, this is just random junk.

'; // Our message above including the link

$headers = 'From:[email protected]' . "\r\n"; // Set from headers
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); // Send our email
?>

 

Using mail() to send the email... give it a go and tweak it to your needs as you want.

[justlukeyou]

Thanks for that, it comes with the following error

 

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ukhomefu/public_html/users/register.php:1)

 

Does this mean the user should be redicrected to the homepage?

 

 

header("Location: index.php");

[Skewled]

Yes that's what it's doing, you can only redirect once so I'd suggest moving the redirect to after the mail has been sent.

[justlukeyou]

Thanks,

 

I have put the redirect after the email like so, it generates the error four time, do I need to put anything on the index.php page?

 

	'; // Our message above including the link

$headers = 'From:[email protected]' . "\r\n"; // Set from headers
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); // Send our email
?>

<?php
          header("Location: index.php");
?>

 

 

 

[Skewled]

I don't know the code that index.php consists of so I can't really help you blindly guessing...

 

But the issue is the headers can only be sent once, the way I have my custom registration setup is that the page is it's own entity and performs no redirect and just displays a typical thank you for registering and check your email message.

 

Clearer:

There is an HTML form that a user fills out to register

The HTML form sends the information to say register.php

register.php takes the information and does whatever it needs with it and displays a status message upon completion

 

Also, don't go editing the existing code unless you back it up so you can revert all changes you've made! 

[justlukeyou]

Thanks,

 

It creates the following error Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ukhomefu/public_html/users/register.php:1  for the following 3 lines of code.

 

Firstly I'm not sure what the first two do.  The page wont redirect also.  Does the index page need some form of code to receive redirect and does it need to be access the dbase? 

 

           setcookie("user", mysql_insert_id(), $time);
            setcookie("pass", mysql_real_escape_string(md5($password)), $time);
     header("Location: index.php");

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           setcookie("user", mysql_insert_id(), $time);
            setcookie("pass", mysql_real_escape_string(md5($password)), $time);
     header("Location: index.php");

 

1st line - sets a cookie to store the user

2nd line - sets a cookie to store the pass

 

These are just for creating a session, the cookies are used to "remember" the user that is logged in.

 

3rd line - this is the redirect sending the user to the index.php page once the session has been created.

 

You could just remove the 3rd line and display a thank you for registering type of message and providing a link to the index.php, or if the navigation menu is displayed no link is needed.

[justlukeyou]

Hi,

 

I found something which says all the code should be at the top and without any white space.  That is what generally creates this error. 

 

So I shall ahve to go through all that.

 

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ukhomefu/public_html/users/register.php:1)

 

 

 

[Skewled]

Yes, headers have to be sent before any output is displayed to the browser!

[justlukeyou]

Thanks,

 

I see , this part here.  So from the top I should have my db access code, then all the headers.

 

 $headers = "From: ".$website['name']." 

 

Is it very sensitive.  I have removed all the website I can see but it still creates the errors.

[Skewled]

That's how it works! Just make sure no output is done before the redirect, and that pesky error will go away and you should be well on your way to sending registration e-mails.

 

The script for the site is sensitive in nature? I understand that completely!

 

Let me know if it works out!

[tombob10]

Hi,

 

It does respond and send the email but it generates the errors at the top of the page.

 

headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/users/register.php:1)

 

I have the code directly underneath the connect code and I tried to remove all the white space possible but the error still appears.

[Skewled]

That's excellent, go to the main php help forum here and read the HEADERS post and you'll see what your doing wrong.. it's explained really well there in that post.