Send Confirmation Mail to Customer 1

[Muppsy007]

Hi, couldn't find much on my exact problem in the search. I think this is more design advice than programming.

What we have is a service order page. The customer fills it out and presses submit. This submit action updates the data to a MySQL database and redirects to a confirmation page.

At this confirmation page, the customer checks the details and clicks submit again. This time a formmail cgi script is called and sends an email to relevant person here at work. This also redirects the user to a Thankyou page where the customer then leaves.

What I want to do somewhere after the second Submit, is send the customer a confirmation email, in a different format to what gets sent to our people at work.

Can this be done in the same process (IE call two cgi scripts)? Any Ideas at all. I'm a PHP newbie and CGI illiterate.

Thanks

 

[bastienk]

Yes, you can, or what about just adding the customer as a CC or BCC on the email to the 'relevant person'?

mail($toCustomer,"Order Received","Thanks for your order",$optionalHeaders);

mail($relevantPerson, "Order",$body_of_email, $optionalHeaders);

Bastien

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[Muppsy007]

Thanks Bastien, I'm not sure if this is what we're after.

I guess we want a better formatted version of the one we send to our people at work, including our address, a http:// link to a map of our location. Sending the same message as CC or BCC won't do.

I think I may be asking the impossible from CGI thinking about it now.

Thanks anyway.

 

[skiflyer]

Nothing impossible or difficult about it.

Since we're in the PHP forum, I'll use PHP syntax, but you can apply this logic to Perl/CGI as well (not sure what you're using).

So somewhere you have something akin to

$body = 'yadda yadda yadda...blah blah blah';

mail ($internal, "Order".$order_number, $body);

All you need to do is add

$cust_body = 'prettier yadda yadda yadda...';
mail ($customer, "Order ".$order_number." received!", $cust_body);

If you want to put it all in another script, just use includes, or better yet, functionalize it.