A simple email responder to visitors

One of the things I am keen to do is market stuff to people who email my site (either the admin or one of the adverts).

Here is what you can do for the main contact form but it is exactly the same for individual advert contact forms except you modify contact.php instead and set the fromemail.

Create a new .tpl file in your template's email folder. Lets call it visitor.tpl . The contents might look something like this

{assign var='subject' value=$smarty.const.EMAIL_CONTACT_US_SUBJ}

{include file="emails/html/mail_header.tpl"}

<p>Dear {$name},</p>
<p>Thank you for contacting our site. We would be pleased if you Bought Template Codes stuff.</p>
<div class="hr"><hr /></div>

{include file="emails/html/mail_footer.tpl"}

Now in contactus.php add the code in red just under the existing lines.


$content = "contactus.tpl";
$msg = $Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);

$specialmsg= "visitor.tpl";
$vars['fromemail'] = 'no-reply@mydomain.com';
$tmsg = $Mailer->sendMail($email, $special, $vars);

And if you really want to be flash you can use something like one of the modules from TemplateCodes show the latest listings where the photos will show too.

See the screen shot attached.

To see it live please go here

www.frenchpropertyclassifieds.com.com/contactus.html

Fill out the form and you should get an email from me.

I would appreciate people hitting the google+1 button in the main menu on a couple of pages for me.

This idea can also be extended to the registration process. If for example you wish to classify those registering as buyers or sellers for example, it is possible to use one of the extra registration fields to ask the question on a drop down and then email different welcome messages depending on what they are. In fact a customer of ours has just used this technique and it is exactly what he needed. He wants to communicate with buyers and sellers differently - making different types of offers to each.

Try allowing html emails in your 68C admin control panel. This has nothing to do with the code given.

If you look at how send mail works you can change it to what you wish. As for html not showing I cannot say why it does not work for you. Have you looked in other email clients like outlook, mac mail, etc. Here is the code I use. I do not want to share my email so it shows no-reply@



$to = ADMIN_EMAIL;
$vars['name'] = $name;
$vars['email'] = $email;
$vars['fromemail'] = $email;
$vars['comments'] = $comments;
$vars['tel']=$tel;
$content = "contactus.tpl";
$msg = $Mailer->sendMail($to, $content, $vars);

$special= "visitor.tpl";
$vars['fromemail'] = 'no-reply@mydomain.com';

$tmsg = $Mailer->sendMail($email, $special, $vars);