Auto Mail new member

Hi all

Here's another one I can't get my head around...

I'm currently building a large community website. It's running on a Linux server and is built with Dreamweaver MX in PHP using a MySQL backend.

I've no problems setting up the member registration system, however this is the first site where the new member needs to be emailed their login information.

Basically, once they've completed the registration form and have proceeded to the confirmation page, how do I go about mailing their username & password and a general welcome message to their email address (which they will have provided during registration)?

On a slightly different note - is it a similar process if the member forgets their username and/or password and wants to retrieve either using their registered email address?

Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated!

John H
Darecia Interactive
http://www.darecia.com/

Sounds like you really need to learn to hand code your sites....lol. I would start with learning XHTML/CSS. Then you could move on to PHP/MySQL!

Oh forgot to answer the question. You should just be able to echo the username and password, then email that echo.

Hi

Thanks for the response.

I do most of my work hand coded. I just have difficulty with a few aspects of the PHP language - otherwise I'd consider myself quite fluent in PHP

Anyways, here is the code I've added to the confirmation page. I'm having difficulty calling the information using 'echo' from the recordset.

Please take a look and see if you can spot an error!

PHP: Select all

<?php
$to      = '<?php echo $row_rsReg['email']; ?>';
$subject = 'Your Registration Information';
$message = 'Welcome to the community.  

Your Username is <?php echo $row_rsReg['username']; ?> and your password is <?php echo $row_rsReg['password']; ?>';
$headers = 'From: noreply@darecia.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: noreply@darecia.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

I know that there are more PHP headers within the script, but if I take these out I get a parse error.

What's the correct syntax in this instance?

Cheers!

John H
Darecia Interactive
http://www.darecia.com/