Accept string mail and send to the user (php)

[Papik]

Hi people!, please if someone can help...

Need a .php that request a name and an email from a user and then call an external shell script that replace in a text file a generic name with the name entered from the user, compress it and send to the email entered from the user.
I dont have so much experience with PHP but it seems to me that shouldnt be something difficult to do it.
Can someone help me with a .php example or something?
Thanks in Advance
Papik

 

[jpadie]

<?php
if (isset($_POST['name'])):
mail($_POST['email'], 'Subject',sprintf(file_get_contents('template.txt'),$_POST['name']));
endif;
?>

note that you should check the email field to make sure it is not a form attack

 

[Papik]

Thanks Jpadie, but as far as i can see this solve the mail sending issue but i need:

php code to:

1-accept 2 box text from the user (name, email)
2-call a linux shell script with these 2 parameters ( let's name it /home/test/script.sh para1 para2) that would replace a generic name with the name entered from the user
3-take the result for the script (template.txt replaced correctly) and send it to the user.
I know there must be a way to do it simple and effective but i cant figure out...
Thanks Again!
Papik

 

[feherke]

Hi

2-call a linux shell script with these 2 parameters ( let's name it /home/test/script.sh para1 para2) that would replace a generic name with the name entered from the user

PHP is very skilled in text processing. Why should an external script be involved ?

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Papik]

because i dont know how to do it in php and i know how to do it with sed for example in an external shell script.
The goal is very simple, replace several string in a file.txt with the user entered strings( i.e is a letter and i need to personalize it for each user)...
also gzip it and send it to the user...
can all these steps be done in php?
feel free to suggest pls
Thanks!

 

[feherke]

Hi

i know how to do it with sed for example

[tt]sed[/tt] uses regular expressions. PHP can also use regular expressions. ( See [tt]preg_replace()[/tt]. ) But there is absolutely no need for regular expressions, as you probably want to replace a fixed string. ( See [tt]str_replace()[/tt], [tt]strtr()[/tt]. )

And yes, zipping can also be done in PHP, however is abit more complicated. ( But I see no reason to do it. )

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Papik]

thanks feherke, gonna check that functions.
Can someone give an example of doing all this steps that i post before with php?
Thanks!

 

[jpadie]

the code I posted will
+ take used input in two html fields: email and name
+ ingest a template: template.txt
+ replace a placeholder in the form %s within the template with the value of the name text field
+ mail the resultant merged template to the address specified in the email text field.

 

[Papik]

all this with just one line??
well incredible!,
the only requirement that is missing is that the file must be winzipeed before we can send it to the user..
Thanks!!!

 

[jpadie]

then the easiest solution is to use phpmailer. you can hard code attachments in the message body, but it's a pain.

to zip, use php's zip function

<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE);
$zip->addFromString('template.txt', sprintf(file_get_contents('template.txt'),$_POST['name']));
$zip->close();
?>

 

[Papik]

thanks jpadie and feherke,
for all your valuable inputs !
Regards,
Papik