Ad variable to a custom php file in the site folder

[graphicz]

I use a php file called formtoemailpro.php to send the ask a question about this product email. It is included in additional files.

It has to contain the site owner's email address.

How can I make it so that I can use the Selledeck variable '<actinic:variable name="Email" />' in this form?

Thank you

[NormanRouxel]

SellerDeck won't expand variables in external files so just embedding the variable won't work.

You can pass the address as a search string parameter when calling the PHP file.

E.g. PHP file test.php:

<?php
if ( array_key_exists("email", $_GET) )
	{
	$email = $_GET["email"];
	// You should sanitize $email in case of hackers
	$sanitezedemail = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
	// You might also want to check that it's from the same domain as the script and is a valid email address
	echo "Address is: $sanitezedemail";
	}
else
	{
	// deal with missing address
	echo "No site address!";
	}
?>

And it is called from a SellerDeck layout as

<a href="test.php?email=<actinic:variable name="Email" />">Email me</a>

[NormanRouxel]

Here's another (more reliable perhaps as it doesn't let anyone tinker with the email address).

In the bottom of Standard Javascript Header Functions put:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Search%22">
	<actinic:block php="true">
		file_put_contents('siteemailaddress.php', '<?php $my_email = "<actinic:variable name="email"/>";?>');
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

This will write a file siteemailaddress.php containing e.g.:

<?php $my_email = "YourName@YourCompanyEmail.com";?>

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Now in your formtoemailpro.php where you had

$my_email = "delete these words and put the email address only in here between the quotes";

Replace with:

include_once ("siteemailaddress.php");

[graphicz]

Brilliant Norman. Thank you so much.

[graphicz]

My server prefers outgoing emails to be from the same domain so in 'FormToEmailPro.php' I tend to use an address like 'website@mydomain.com' as the 'from address' even if it does not actually exist.

The email is coming from the same domain and in the email inbox 'From Website' shows you it is from the site.

In the email template file I put a note to reply to the 'from' address and not to just click reply.

After a bit of head scratching I came up with this to create the 'from' address along the same lines as Norman above:

<actinic:block php="true">
file_put_contents('siteemailaddress.php', '<?php $my_email = "<actinic:variable name="email"/>";?>');
$email = "<actinic:variable name="email"/>";
$firstbit ="website@";
$filename ="fromemailaddress.php";
$domain_name = substr(strrchr($email, "@"), 1);
$pemdata = array("<?php ", "\$from_email = \"",$firstbit, $domain_name,"\" ?>");
file_put_contents($filename, $pemdata);
</actinic:block>

Then by the same token as above replace

$from_email = "";

with

include_once ("fromemailaddress.php");

Thank you very much again to Norman for steering me on this path.

[NormanRouxel]

Here's the two combined and tidied so it would be easy to add additional settings:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Search%22">
	<actinic:block php="true">
		$settings = "<?php\n";
		$email = '<actinic:variable name="email"/>';

		// the My Email Address
		$settings .= "\$my_email = '$email';\n";

		// the From Email Address
		$settings .= "\$from_email = 'website@" . substr(strrchr($email, '@'), 1) . "';\n";

		$settings .= '?>';
		file_put_contents('sitesettings.php', $settings);

	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

Which will generate file sitesetting.php containing:

<?php
$my_email = 'YourName@YourCompanyEmail.com';
$from_email = 'website@YourCompanyEmail.com';
?>

And use: include_once ("sitesettings.php");

[graphicz]

That's beautiful. Thank you Norman.