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Hello guys I have a question for you.  I work for an agent under dobson, and AT&T acquired us.  My boss has 5 stores that we have ot send them ain store our cash sheets for the day by fax.  I have come up with an idea to send a form www.totalcom.us/new/cashsheet.php by email.  But since the coding id wrong more than likely the email output is really unorganized.  This is the code :

<?
$from = "Totalcom";
$location = addslashes($_POST['location']);
$month = addslashes($_POST['month']);
$day = addslashes($_POST['day']);
$year = addslashes($_POST['year']);
$onect = addslashes($_POST['onect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$tenct = addslashes($_POST['tenct']);
$twofivect = addslashes($_POST['twofivect']);
$totald = addslashes($_POST['totald']);
$onedt = addslashes($_POST['onedt']);
$fivedt = addslashes($_POST['fivedt']);
$tendt = addslashes($_POST['tendt']);
$twoodt = addslashes($_POST['twoodt']);
$fiftydt = addslashes($_POST['fiftydt']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$totald = addslashes($_POST['totald']);
$oneds = addslashes($_POST['oneds']);
$fiveds = addslashes($_POST['fiveds']);
$tends = addslashes($_POST['tends']);
$twoods = addslashes($_POST['twoods']);
$fiftyds = addslashes($_POST['fiftyds']);
$hundredds = addslashes($_POST['hundredds']);
$totals = addslashes($_POST['totals']);
$onedb = addslashes($_POST['onedb']);
$fivedb = addslashes($_POST['fivedb']);
$tendb = addslashes($_POST['tendb']);
$twoodb = addslashes($_POST['twoodb']);
$fiftydb = addslashes($_POST['fiftydb']);
$hundreddb = addslashes($_POST['hundreddb']);
$totalb = addslashes($_POST['totalb']);


$sendto = "mvolz@ventronicpcsys.com";
$subject = "$location $month $day $year"; 
$body = "  Location =  ". $location ."\n \n  Month = ". $month ."  Day = ". $day ."  Year = ". $year ." \n \n
$.01 = ". $onect ."   
$.05 = ". $fivect ."  
$.10 = ". $tenct ."  
$.25 = ". $twofivect ."  \n
$1.00 = ". $onedt ."   $1.00 = ". $oneds ."  $1.00 = ". $onedb ."
$5.00 = ". $fivedt ."   $5.00 = ". $fiveds ."  $5.00 = ". $fivedb ."
$10.00 = ". $tendt ."  $10.00 = ". $tends ."  $10.00 = ". $tendb ."
$20.00 = ". $twoodt ."  $20.00 = ". $twoods ."  $20.00 = ". $twooedb ."
$50.00 = ". $fiftydt ."  $50.00 = ". $fiftyds ."  $50.00 = ". $fiftydb ."
$100.00 = ". $hundreddt ."  $100.00 = ". $hundredds ."  $100.00 = ". $hundreddb ."
$Total: = ". $totald ."  Total: = ". $totals ."  Total: = ". $totalb ."  \n \n  ";

mail($sendto, $subject, $body, $email);

header( 'Location: cashsheet.php' );
?>

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Now all i want to do is make this email come out to a nice organized table for my boss. So i searched around and i found this:

 

// multiple recipients
$to  = 'mvolz@ventronicpcsys.com' . ', '; // note the comma

// subject
$subject = '$location $month $day $year';

// message
$body = "  Location =  ". $location ."\n \n  Month = ". $month ."  Day = ". $day ."  Year = ". $year ." \n \n "
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>$location Cash Sheet $month $day $year</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mellisa Mathewson ' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Totalcom <blah@example>' . "\r\n";


// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Just a basic layout for an HTML email.  But i would like it dynamic, by changing the location of the stroe since there is 5.  The date and the cash amounts.  Also but not right now I would like the amounts to total in the Total boxes at the bottom.  I'm running out of time so I hope this will be enough.

 

Thanx guys

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I have to ask this question but this data is not security sensitive is it? If so I would seriously suggest NOT using email as a transfer medium.

 

Just replace the values in your HTML with variables, run a query or conditional statement on the store/location (though I cannot see where you get this), populate the variables with the necessary data for that store and this will help you to make it dynamic.

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have to ask this question but this data is not security sensitive is it? If so I would seriously suggest NOT using email as a transfer medium

 

Well Its going to be everyone's dollar amounts of the day.  I had the thought that it could be a risk, since its dollar amounts.  But people wouldn't know what the dolalr amounts are for and what good would it give anyone.  Unless this could be done by a database somehow. They just want to get away from the fax machine and be more high tech. 

 

I'm more of a hardware and A+ kinda guy but i would like to learn this stuff, I don't know any of the commands of PHP.

 

All in all, its just going to be a set of dollar amounts that each store is bringing daily, if thats to much of a risk in yor eyes than i'll look to doing something different.

 

THanx

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hello again, alright I have decided to use this method anyways, but i have htaccessed the folder.  But one thing i have a problem with, how do you implement php variables ( i think thats what they are called) into the HTML section of this PHP code:

 

<?
$location = addslashes($_POST['location']);
$month = addslashes($_POST['month']);
$day = addslashes($_POST['day']);
$year = addslashes($_POST['year']);
$onect = addslashes($_POST['onect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$tenct = addslashes($_POST['tenct']);
$twofivect = addslashes($_POST['twofivect']);
$totald = addslashes($_POST['totald']);
$onedt = addslashes($_POST['onedt']);
$fivedt = addslashes($_POST['fivedt']);
$tendt = addslashes($_POST['tendt']);
$twoodt = addslashes($_POST['twoodt']);
$fiftydt = addslashes($_POST['fiftydt']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$fivect = addslashes($_POST['fivect']);
$totald = addslashes($_POST['totald']);
$oneds = addslashes($_POST['oneds']);
$fiveds = addslashes($_POST['fiveds']);
$tends = addslashes($_POST['tends']);
$twoods = addslashes($_POST['twoods']);
$fiftyds = addslashes($_POST['fiftyds']);
$hundredds = addslashes($_POST['hundredds']);
$totals = addslashes($_POST['totals']);
$onedb = addslashes($_POST['onedb']);
$fivedb = addslashes($_POST['fivedb']);
$tendb = addslashes($_POST['tendb']);
$twoodb = addslashes($_POST['twoodb']);
$fiftydb = addslashes($_POST['fiftydb']);
$hundreddb = addslashes($_POST['hundreddb']);
$totalb = addslashes($_POST['totalb']);

// multiple recipients
$to  = 'mvolz@ventronicpcsys.com' . ', '; // note the comma

// subject
$subject = "$location $month $day $year";

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title><?= ("$location Cash Sheet $month $day $year") ?></title>
</head>
<body>
  <p><?php echo $location; ?></p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mellisa Mathewson ' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Totalcom <cashsheet@totalcom.us>' . "\r\n";


// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

header( 'Location: index.php' );
?>

 

I have tryed so many different combinations of php but i need to have all of those dollar amounts to be dynamic by how much each store is putting in.  I don't really have a good book source for me to use, I just have my buddy Google.

 

Thanx guys.

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You mean you want the variables you assigned earlier to appear in the html output that you use in $message. Well if you look at the code you found you will see that it is already done,

 

<p><?php echo $location; ?></p>

 

All you need to do is take the line above (less the paragraph tags) and change the output variable $location to whatever variable you assigned earlier on in your code and place it in the desired location on your HTML output in $message.

 

And the best manual for PHP, is THE manual for PHP ;)

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php

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