Background sending of php mail

Hi guys,

I'm new to all this so I really need some advice!!

I am doing up a data entry page for events, by clicking on 'submit', the data will be uploaded into the mysql database. All this poses no problem, but I need to create a php mail (mail.php) that upon clicking on 'submit' (events.php), an email will be sent to a colleague to tell her to go to this admin page which I have done up for her to approve or disapprove the event submission.

As far as I know, 'submit' is only for the event form and not for the mail.php. But it would be stupid to put two buttons on the events.php...

What should I do??

 

You should move code for sending emails to be part of add event routine. Mail is sent on successfull insert... Simple as that.

 

Hi! Thanks for your reply!! May I know what I should put? Let's say the mail function is in mail.php, how do I run the mail.php in this?

if ($mailsent) {
echo "The submission has been successful.";
}
else {
echo "There was an error sending this data. Please retry";
}
?>

 

use the mail() function to shoot of an email. It's one easy line of code.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

Hi I think I may not have made myself quite understandable:
I have the following files:
- event.php: the form
- eventdata.php: the php file to insert info into the database
- mail.php: contains mail() to send email reminder.

Imagine an html form on event.php, and the submit button is only for submitting the info on the event, not for processing mail.php...

<form method="POST" action="eventdata.php">
blah blah blah event details....
<input type=" submit " value=" Submit ">


My only solution is to put "if event is sucessfully submitted, then the mail.php would be run", but WHERE and HOW do I do it in the following? Can someone help me with the code?

if ($eventsent) {
echo "The submission has been successful.";
}
else {
echo "There was an error sending this data. Please retry";
}
?>

Help!!!

 

if ($eventsent) {
echo "The submission has been successful.";
include("mail.php");
}
else {
echo "There was an error sending this data. Please retry";
}

PHP:

 

Thanks Mad4!! I'll go try it out!! )) Will tell you about the results later!!