Coding help

fotbal5 · Apr 7, 2010

HI, I need help figuring out how to setup a new site. Basically what I dont know how to do is make it so that when a person submits their email to my they get an automatic email from me giving them a random number between 1000-1000000000

Now I don't understand how I would go about setting it up and what software to use, or what code. The coding must email them a different number each time.

Is there free software I could use, or is there a simple code?

yeahright · Apr 7, 2010

That's simple code and can be achieved using the php mail function and mt_rand. Google them.

radi2k · Apr 7, 2010

isnt that something like an opt-in form? in that case you could also use other pages to verify them automated. you can do this with aweber or others.

hope that helps

fotbal5 · Apr 7, 2010

Are these free ways to do this. I dont really wana spend money on the email responder part.

kaidoristm · Apr 7, 2010

PHP:

$number = date("YmdHis".substr(microtime(),2,6));

    $to = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "Here's your number take it now";
    $headers .= "To: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "From: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Subject: $subject" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'X-Mailer:PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n";

    $message = "Ok here's your sneaky number: $number";
    $message = wordwrap($message, 70);

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

fotbal5 · Apr 7, 2010

so how exactly should i go about setting it up. Basically the person will fill out a cpa offer and then be allowed to enter their email on my page to win a free Ipod. When they enter the email I want to automatically send them a random number, so they think that they've actually been put in the drawing to win. So how would i set it up so when they entered their email, the site would send them an email with any random number

kaidoristm · Apr 7, 2010

Bit more complete. Quick and nasty but works

PHP:

<?php

echo '<form method="post" action="" >
E-mail:<input type="text" name="email" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>';

if(trim($_POST['submit'] == Submit))
{
    if(!filter_var(trim($_POST['email']), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
    {
        echo "E-mail is not valid";
    }

    else
    {
        $number = date("YmdHis".substr(microtime(),2,6));

        $to = trim($_POST['email']);
        $subject = "Here's your number take it now";
        $headers .= "To: ".trim($_POST['email']) . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "From: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Subject: $subject" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "X-Mailer:PHP/" . phpversion() . "\r\n";

        $message = "Ok here's your sneaky number: $number";
        $message = wordwrap($message, 70);

        mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) or die("Sorry but sending an email failed"); 
    }

}

?>

fotbal5 · Apr 7, 2010

so, how would i would just put this php into the site?

cbar126 · Apr 7, 2010

create a .html page and input the code between <? and ?> or create a .php and input the code as is.

I just tested this code and works fine

fotbal5 · Apr 7, 2010

How did you test it. I uploaded it to a website as a .php and then it had the submit button, but it didnt work. Also there was code on the bottom of the page.

kaidoristm · Apr 8, 2010

Ok here's an simple explanation how to use it. Change the text Here's your number take it now to your desired text it will be the subject of the email.
Change the text Ok here's your sneaky number: To your desired text it will be the content of the email. Change the email [email protected] to your desired email it will me the email which shows up from who the email came.
Now leave rest of the code exactly like it is.
Now copy and paste that code into your website or page and save it with extension .php . That's it It works as expected se3nds the number to entered email.
So the reason why you saw the code on bottom of your page is that the code didnt have php brackets there is now so try again.

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