[Pro] PHP Form - Email to client?

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Hello all.

I have set up a PHP feedback form on our website (http://www.completekitcar.co.uk/Calendar%20Claim/calendarclaimfor.html) and we have been using this successfully for various competitions and giveaways.

We have now encountered a little problem though. We have had some people contact us saying that they have applied for one of the giveaways but never received it. When we checked back through our database and email accounts their name doesn’t appear anywhere so this suggests to us that they haven’t submitted the form properly thus we haven’t received their details. They have assured us that this isn’t the case and they got the ‘Success’ page after they submitted the claim form.

My question is this…
Is it possible to get the PHP form to email the customer an email similar to the one we receive from the form but just confirming that their details have been sent to us? i.e. Can the form link to the customers email address field?

Please help, this is driving us bonkers.

James

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Hi James,
Here’s a neat trick that Walter found a while back that will allow you
to send a copy of the e-mail to the sender as a receipt.
Here’s the original thread;
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/48709#m_49535

It’s a hack but it works.
In the Email Recipient field in the action enter the following code;


"; $r = "name at domain.com,".$_POST['email']; $recipient .= $r;  
$recipient .= "

The ‘name at domain.com’ bit should be your regular e-mail address
that you want to receive the e-mails to. I’ve had to space the address
out like this otherwise the forum at FreewayTalk will hide the address
from you in the hope of stopping spam.

The code simply tells the PHP that the action creates to append the
sender’s e-mail address (held in $_POST[‘email’]) to the recipient
address (name at domain.com).
Make sure that one of your text fields in your form is called
‘email’ (without the quotes) as this will be used as the sender’s e-
mail address.

When I get a chance to update the action I’ll add in a facility to do
this without hacking around with the code like this.
Regards,
Tim.

On 5 Nov 2009, at 16:19, James Mansell wrote:

Hello all.

I have set up a PHP feedback form on our website (http://www.completekitcar.co.uk/Calendar%20Claim/calendarclaimfor.html
) and we have been using this successfully for various competitions
and giveaways.

We have now encountered a little problem though. We have had some
people contact us saying that they have applied for one of the
giveaways but never received it. When we checked back through our
database and email accounts their name doesn’t appear anywhere so
this suggests to us that they haven’t submitted the form properly
thus we haven’t received their details. They have assured us that
this isn’t the case and they got the ‘Success’ page after they
submitted the claim form.

My question is this…
Is it possible to get the PHP form to email the customer an email
similar to the one we receive from the form but just confirming that
their details have been sent to us? i.e. Can the form link to the
customers email address field?

Please help, this is driving us bonkers.

James

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The PHP easiForm actions have the option to send a confirmation to the
user, it also has an option to CC a copy of the email to up to 3 other
email addresses if needed, the ‘Confirm’ copy of the email setting is
located under the ‘Advanced’ Configuration.

This action is not free as the PHP feedback form is, there is a small
charge for the action per domain but it can be used on an many forms
you want to on that domain.
The server the form is used on needs to be ioncube friendly but you
can set the whole thing up and test it before buying so you can see if
it is what you need and if it is compatible with your server before
buying.

More info here:
http://www.easibase.com/freeway/freeway_form.php

Can be downloaded from here:
http://www.actionsforge.com/actions/view/55-php-easiform

The action can also be downloaded from the easibase site, there is
also a PDF with a full explanation relative to setting up a form in
Freeway in a table and then moves onto a detailed explanation on the
PHP easiForms use with a Freeway form.
Scroll down to the ‘New addition’ in red under the ‘PHP easiForm
action suite & PHP easiCaptcha action’ section of the following page
for the download link for the PDF:
http://www.easibase.com/freeway/freewayactions.php

HTH

On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:19 PM, James Mansell wrote:

My question is this…
Is it possible to get the PHP form to email the customer an email
similar to the one we receive from the form but just confirming that
their details have been sent to us? i.e. Can the form link to the
customers email address field?

Please help, this is driving us bonkers.

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