phpmailer and a auto responder

[Fryman40]

Hi All,

 

I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to setup or program a auto responder for my website form. Basically I have a flash website and a general form that is filled out and then posted to a php script and sends the info to a email address. What I would like to do is have the script send the information from the form to a email address and then automatically send that person an email back that says we are processing there information or whatever I decide. I am currently using phpmailer so not sure if this is hard to implement or not. I hate going through every email and send a basic message back when I know there must be something that will do this automatically. Any help appreciated!

 

Fryman

 

 

[mr_zhang]

Creating auto-responder, although easy, is quite time consuming, so I doubt you'll get snippet of codes here.

 

Basically:

- Create form.php where you ask people's name and email

- Create process1.php where you get those data and put it into (e.g. mysql database) temporary table.

- Process1.php then send an email using mail() to ask for confirmation. Include link to process2.php along with the appropriate parameter (the data).

- Process2.php will be activated when user click the confirmation link.

- Process2.php will then record the data(name and email), plus the time of registration to permanent table.

- Process2.php also erase the data from the temporary table.

- Lastly, process2.php echo the success message to the user. Done.

- Next you create a back-office system where you get all the emails from permanent table and send them one by one. (so that you are able to send emails to them)

- That's it, basically.

 

If you have zero idea what to do, you could get many free autoresponder scripts out there ready made for you. Just install it and you're done. Try google it.

[Fryman40]

ok Thanks.... I was hoping this could be done without using mysql.... maybe I can just forward their email to a box with a auto reply since it will be the same message all the time. Who knows.... Thanks for pointing me to some direction. Im surprised a simple txt message back to a user can be so difficult.

 

Fryman

[mr_zhang]

ok Thanks.... I was hoping this could be done without using mysql.... maybe I can just forward their email to a box with a auto reply since it will be the same message all the time. Who knows.... Thanks for pointing me to some direction. Im surprised a simple txt message back to a user can be so difficult.

 

Fryman

 

Ow, sorry. You mean, simple autoresponder?

 

I'm getting the impression that you want to have a complete autoresponder like GetResponse.com

 

For simple autoresponder, which only sends emails back to the user without storing the data (and nothing else actually), you could just:

 

form.php

<form action="process.php" method="post">
name: <input type="text" name="name" /><br />
email: <input type="text" name="email" /><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

 

process.php

if ($_POST)
{
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$message_body='Text you want';

mail($email,$message_body);
}

 

Why don't you set it up with your host. I mean most web hosting nowadays have simple autoresponder pre-set. You just type the message and done.

 

Regards,

[Fryman40]

lol... Well actually the form in flash already gets the email address and name and sends the info using a php script to an email address. I just have to figure out how to add what you told me... lol Actually I am hosting the websites myself on a T1 line and running apache and hmailserver, so I guess I am the host.. LOL Damn I better get with the program.. hehe

 

Thanks,

 

Fryman