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Hello,

I'm rather new to this, so I hope I am not asking a question everybody knows the answer to.

I would like to know if I can send a confirmation email (apart from the email with the results of course) to an email address inserted by a user of the form with something like: "We received your registration in a name "fname" and address "faddress"."

So as a confirmation the applicant does not only see the page but receives automatic email but a little different than me with the results.

If this is a standard thing I appologize for asking, if it's already in the forum, just let me know.

Cheers

Radim

Hello,

Welcome to ChronoForms, First I want to tell that you are the first one to ask about this🙂

I see this as a good idea to put a straight easy way to do it in the next release, however you can achieve this in the current release with few lines of code :

#1- at the form edit page and on the "on submit AFTER email" code, put this :

<?php
$from = 'admin@admin.com';
$fromname = 'Radim';
$recipient = $_POST['email']; // here I assume that the field name which will have the user's email is "email"
$body = 'We received your registration in a name '.$_POST["fname"].' and address '.$_POST["faddress"];
mosMail($from, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $body, true, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );
?>

This should do it for you, as you see, you have full flexibility over all variables and its just fun to play with some PHP lines🙂

Cheers

Max

Brilliant, works like a charm. Thank you.

Now, I hope it is not too bold to ask but is there a way to format the mail into more lines and in html? To be honest I've checked the Internet first before asking but I am not too good in PHP so I don'r really know.

Cheers

Radim

Sorry, it already is in HTML. Still I am not sure how to put more lines and some formatting along with the data from the form.

Thank you

Radim

Well I keep posting. I've figured it out myself apart from one tiny little thing. I would like to change the font of the confirmation email to Tahoma. I've tried several html tags but noone seems to help.

Any idea?

Radim

Hi,

I think you can put the whole email in the email template into some div and give a style for the font like style = "font-family:....etc"

ok, I'll try. Thanks.

ok, I'll try. Thanks.

Hi Radim,

Getting formatting correct in e-mails is not always straight-forward as different e-mail programs treat the html formatting commands in different ways. Either the html <font face='Tahoma, sans-serif'>...</font> or the css <p style='font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;'>. . .</p> should do the trick (if in doubt use both).

Bob

Yep, it did the trick, thank you. What I did after all was I wrote the answer in TMEdit directly in Joomla, chose specific font and size, switched to HTML, cleaned the code a little and pasted it to the form. Worked fine.

Hi Radim,

I think that you can just put what you want in the $body statement something like this:

$body = "<div style='border:1px solid black;padding:6px;'><p>We received your registration in the name of <b>$_POST['fname']</b> and address $_POST['faddress']. </p></div>";

You'll need to watch the quotes but using double quotes for the whole string and single quotes inside it ought to work OK (otherwise you'll need to escape some).

Bob