Can php allow a user to be sent a mail on a Website

Caben wrote: »

Ballyv24

Thanks for the link, but on review this only sends a text message to a specified e-mail address

I need it to use the email address submitted by the user.

I am 99% sure you and others understand what I mean, but this should clear everything up.

Example:

User goes to www.123.ie
User enters test@test.ie to the email form box and clicks submit.
User receives an email from no-reply@123.ie, with a vCard attached to the email, to their account test@test.ie

Again thank in advance
Caben

There are many ways to do this. Firstly, you need to get the form information into a function of some sorts by posting it - are you familiar with simple web forms? If so, set it up to post your details to another page (or the same page) where variables are then used to send the mail.

Once there you can use a multitude of modules/libraries to send the email. Unfortunately (for you!) I know very little PHP. However, if you were using Perl you could use many of the modules available on CPAN to either relay the mail through an external mail server (GMAIL etc) or send it out through a local mail server (do you have access to either from your website?) Pear should have similar module for PHP and I'd imagine it's as simple in PHP as it would be in Perl.

Here is a quick and nasty Perl script (I tested it and it works from my PC with Exim running - however, you would need to change it a good bit (only send mail if $email is defined etc.) in production but it should get you started) Also, you'll need to get MIME::Lite to make it work - also, change the $attachment path to include the business card to send

The PHP guys will come along soon and help you out with that alternative too.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
use CGI;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $email_address = $cgi->param('email_address');
my $name = $cgi->param('name');
my $attachment = "/tmp/test.pdf";

print "$email_address $name <br/>";

print "<form name='email' method='post' action='email.pl'>
<label for='email_address'>Email Address:<input type='text' name='email_address' id='email_address'>
<label for='name'>Name:<input type='text' name='name' id='name'>
<br />
<input type='submit' value='Email me'>
";

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        From    => "sending\@address.com",
        To      => "$email_address",
        Subject =>  "Your business card",
        Type    => 'multipart/mixed'
    );



$msg->attach(
        Type     => 'TEXT',
        Data     => "Dear $name, Attached is business card.\n\nRegards,\nJohn Smith"
    );

$msg->attach(
        Type    => 'application/pdf',
        Data    => $attachment,
        Filename => $attachment,
        Disposition => 'attachment'
    );

$msg->send('smtp','localhost', Debug=>1 );

As regards the code, the PEAR extensions include functions for mailing MIME attachments, and a quick google for "PHP vCard Library" will return anything else you need. Actually, I think CodeIgniter contains support for both.

Just to add.... if you are sending to a user-entered email address, then you absolutely need to use a captcha or similar method to prevent automated submission of the form, otherwise it can be easily abused. Also,make sure to do plenty of sanitizing of variables in your script, otherwise unscrupulous people could abuse the script to send malformed vCards, spam, etc.