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Sending an autoresponder message

Want to send an autoresponder message to the person who submitted your form? Maybe you want to just send a confirmation that you received his/her message, maybe some further instructions, doesn't matter.

To send the autoresponder message you obviously need to know the e-mail address of the person submitting the form, so make sure you have a "Your E-mail:" input field in your form! If you are not sure how, go through our PHP forms tutorial first.

Let's say you have the e-mail address stored in $email variable (just like the final form in my tutorial). Now you can send the autoresponder message the same way you would send an e-mail to yourself, just to a different address:

mail($email, "Thank you for your e-mail!",
"Hi, we received your message and will respond within 24 hours!");

Of course you can prepare the message and subject in variables for clearer code. Again, using the final form code we could set it up like:

/* Prepare autoresponder subject */
$respond_subject = "Thank you for contacting us!";

/* Prepare autoresponder message */
$respond_message = "Hello!

Thank you for contacting us! We will get back to you
as soon as possible!

Yours sincerely,

Your name
www.yourwebsite.com
";

/* Send the message using mail() function */
mail($email, $respond_subject, $respond_message);

So, to send an autoresponder message use the PHP mail() function twice inside the code - once to send form result to yourself and the second time to send an autoresponder message to the person who submitted your form.

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