Form Submit to site and email results

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I'm sorry to say for my little church but I am about the best web guy they have, poor church. I'm a little over my head and could sure use some help, anyway to my question.

We have setup with a credit card company to accept donations online. I wrote an html form with several javascript functions just to get everything to format correctly and total the giving to different areas (i.e. tithe, youth , pastor appreciation etc...) before sending it to the credit card company's site.

My problem is the credit card company does not forward these additional fields back to us so that we can see how to distribute the gift.

Is there a way to have the action send the data to their site but also send the form results to an email address?

I gave the long version of this story in case I am totally going about this the wrong way. Any point in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

Posted 4-May-11 12:49pm

dwayne2700

Updated 4-May-11 13:33pm

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Peter_in_2780 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-04T15:10:00

If your site is Apache/PHP it's easy (and I'm sure it is just as easy with IIS/ASP.NET, I just don't know the details). When you process the form, you will be accessing a lot of $_GET['xxx'] or $_POST['xxx'] variables. Build these and some literal text into a string, then email it like so:

PHP

<?php
$body = $_POST['name'] . ' has offered ' . $_POST['amount'] . ' for ' . $_POST['purpose'];
$to = 'your_email@your_isp.com';
$subject = 'web donations';
$ok = mail($to, $subject, $body);
if (!$ok)
  // complain - it didn't work
...
?>

You may need to talk to your hosting provider to get the email setup right, but when they do get it right, this will do exactly what you want.
which reminds me, I need to beat up on a hosting company to get email to work on a site I look after. Moved to a new hosting company a month ago, and they still haven't got it right!

Cheers,
Peter

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