From: "Brett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This question may have been asked a million times, but I have had no luck
> searching for a difinitive answer.
>
> I want to send a confirmation email upon receiving an order, and would
like
> to send the page that I display on the browser to the user.
>
> I can not figure out how to send a page, like the links that let you mail
a
> page to a friend on some sites. Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brett
If you want to email them the same page that you sent to the browser, you
can do this using output buffering. In your confirmation page:
<?php
ob_start(); // turn on output buffering
echo "<html>";
?>
Thanks for your order!
<?php
echo "</html>";
// now mail the page
$mailto = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
$mailsubject = "Thanks for your order";
$mailbody = ob_get_contents();
$mailheaders = "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nContent-Type: text/html";
mail($mailto, $mailsubject, $mailbody, $mailheaders);
// and output the page to the browser
ob_end_flush();
?>
But not all mail clients can read HTML email, so it is a good idea to
provide a plain text version of the email as well. You can put both versions
of the mail in the one message using MIME. Try changing the above code
slightly, as follows:
<?php
...
$mailbody = <<<END
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_
Content-Type: text/plain
(Here goes the plain-text version of the email.)
Dear Customer,
Thanks for your order.
------=_NextPart_
Content-Type: text/html
END;
$mailbody .= ob_get_contents(); // inserts the HTML version
$mailbody .= "\n\n------=_NextPart_";
$mailheaders = "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n"
. "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n"
. " boundary=\"----=_NextPart_\"";
mail($mailto, $mailsubject, $mailbody, $mailheaders);
...
?>
Have a flick through:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Cheers
Simon Garner
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