AJAX/JSON and PHP Signup Form help

I have an AJAX form and after someone signs up it validates and then posts to a DB. I am trying to figure out how to email the signup as well. I have tried adding a second action on the form with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated

Here is the PHP

<?php
if($_GET['action'] == 'signup'){
	
	mysql_connect('localhost','dbuser','dbpass');  
	mysql_select_db('dbname');
	
	$email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['signup-email']);
	
	if(empty($email)){
		$status = "error";
		$message = "You did not enter an email address!";
	}
	else if(!preg_match('/^[^\W][a-zA-Z0-9_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*\@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/', $email)){
			$status = "error";
			$message = "You have entered an invalid email address!";
	}
	else {
		$existingSignup = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM signups WHERE signup_email_address='$email'");   
		if(mysql_num_rows($existingSignup) < 1){
			
			$date = date('Y-m-d');
			$time = date('H:i:s');
			$type = ($_POST['signup-type']);
			
			$insertSignup = mysql_query("INSERT INTO signups (signup_email_address, signup_date, signup_time, signup_type) VALUES ('$email','$date','$time', '$type')");
			if($insertSignup){
				$status = "success";
				$message = "You have been signed up!";	
			}
			else {
				$status = "error";
				$message = "Ooops, There's been a technical error!";	
			}
		}
		else {
			$status = "error";
			$message = "This email address has already been registered!";
		}
	}
	
	$data = array(
		'status' => $status,
		'message' => $message
	);
	
	echo json_encode($data);
	exit;
}
?>

PHP:

Here is the HTML

<form id="newsletter-signup" action="?action=signup" method="post">
<input type="text" name="signup-email" id="signup-email" class="fieldz" /> 
<input type="image" src="img/submit1.png" class="submitbtn" />
<input type="hidden" name="signup-type" value="Subject1" /></form><br /><p id="signup-response"></p>

<form id="newsletter-signup2" action="?action=signup" method="post">
<input type="text" class="fieldz" name="signup-email" id="signup-email" /> 
<input type="image" src="img/submit2.png" class="submitbtn" />
<input type="hidden" name="signup-type" value="Subject2" /></form><br /><p id="signup-response2"></p>

HTML:

 

Adding an action attribute to the form wont do anything, you need to edit the PHP script.
You need to use the mail function.
Add this just above the

$insertSignup = mysql_query("INSERT INTO signups (signup_email_address, signup_date, signup_time, signup_type) VALUES ('$email','$date','$time', '$type')");

PHP:

part.
It would look something like;

mail("my@mail.com", "New signup!", "{$email} has signed up for your newsletter!");

PHP:

 

LOL Wow I don't know why I didn't think of this easy fix before. It always helps to have someone else look at it though.

I did however modify it and works like a charm.

$recipient = "email@email.com";
			$formcontent="From: $email \nSignup Type: $type\nI would like to reserve a SPOT please";
			$subject = "New Signup";
			$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
			mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader);

PHP:

I did do something similar before but for some reason it kept emailing me after I would refresh the page. Oh well it works now.


Thanks a lot for your help +rep