PHP Emailing

[M2E]

Hi there,

Looking for some help with PHP emailing and Databases please!! I'm quite new to PHP and am teaching myself.

At present I have created a request form that users sign up to when they want to come to an event. This adds them to our DB and sends a confirmation email to MY address, which I then use to reply to. This method was ok at first, but now we are getting a lot more people signing up.

What I would really like to be able to do is the following, however my PHP knowledge is basic, any help on the following would be grateful:

When a user signs up to an event, I would like to send THEM an email, with a URL which they would click which would take them through to a page, which would then send info back to the DB saying that they have confirmed, which also proves the email address is valid.


Thanking you all in advance...

 

[mes123]

Getting your script to email them should be simply a case of changing the address the email is sent to.

mail ($to, $message, $header)

As for the confirmation link, you can make the script which generates the email build a link something like

http://www.mysite.com/confirm?user=someone@somwhere.co.uk

then write the confirm script to pick up the user variable

$_GET['user']

Then use this to finish their sign-up since the value of user will be unique for each person.

 

[M2E]

Hi there,

I was told that I could use http_build_query to build my URL - however it seems this is only availabe in PHP5.


What is the equiv in PHP4?

Thanks again...

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[M2E]

..have managed to get a little further with this...

The problem I seem to be having now is that when i send the msg in my email script, I can seem to get the format right so that I can have my hyperlink in there to the confirmation page...see below

$msg = "Please click on this link to confirm your sign-up and validate your email address\n\n"<a href=\"urltest.php?firstname=$email;lastname=Evans">CLICK TO CONFIRM BOOKING!</a>;

the error message i get is:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong please!


Thanks...

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[sleipnir214]

Let's see....

$msg =
begin string ==> "
string body ==>Please click on this link to confirm your sign-up and validate your email address\n\n
end string ==> "
string, however, continues ==> <a href=\"urltest.php?firstname=$email;lastname=Evans">CLICK TO CONFIRM BOOKING!</a>;

That assumes, however, that the error really is on that line. When PHP says "Parse error online x", PHP means, "You know, as I was at line x, I realized I was confused". The line with the actual error can be hundreds of lines earlier in your script.


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[litton1]

firstname=$email;lastname=Evans">
should this be
firstname=$email&lastname=Evans">

Binary Intelligence, true or false?

 

[jstreich]

You need to escape all the quotes in the string, as mentioned above (but they missed one too). And follow litton1's advice, and you get:

$msg = "Please click on this link to confirm your sign-up and validate your email address\n\n[red]\[/red]"<a href=\"urltest.php?firstname=$email[red]&[/red]lastname=Evans[red]"[/red]>CLICK TO CONFIRM BOOKING!</a>;

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