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aaronheine

Im trying to add the date to the top of an email confirmation.

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= $Name;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= 'I am delighted you contacted me via our website bla bla bla. ';

Here is my best try...

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= <? print(Date("l F d, Y")); ?>;
$Body .= $Name;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= 'I am delighted you contacted me via our website. ';

Thanks,
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irish1381

You're concatenating your message via your $Body variable, so it is rending in the message.... So, printing out the date isn't going to work. You'll need to create a date variable and append it in your message.

ie:


$date = date('Ymd'); // or whatever format you'd like

$Body = "blah...blah\n";
$Body .= "The date is: ".$date."\n";
//etc, etc...

AndyHowells

You could also use it in a hidden field of the form.

For example;


<input type="hidden" name="date" id="date" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d');?>" />

Then assign a variable and output in the mailer script.

aaronheine

Seems that broke it without error message. See anyhting strange?


$EmailFrom = "TESTTHANK";
$Subject = "Thank You";
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name'])); 
$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Email'])); 
$date = date('Ymd'); 

$Body = "";
$Body .= "The date is: ".$date."\n";
$Body .= $Name . ",";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= '
I am delighted you contacted me via our website.
Sincerely,
Kelly Mills
';

irish1381

What's happening that's indicating that something is broke? Are you not receiving the email? If so, can you post more code. Also, for the sake of consistency I would use lowercase trim() since that's how it appears in the manual...

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