Successful send as a trigger.

In a script, I am drawing a recordset that determines if the client has already been sent an invoice. If it has not, (recordset empty trigger), the email is sent. On a successful email send, I want to update the database record to reflect that the email invoice was sent, but an unset session variable could also mean the email just was never sent because it did not need to be sent.

I thought this was typically a trigger (any successful email send), but it is not appearing in my list of values .

What value can I read that will trigger an update transaction if an email is successfully sent, but not if there is an error OR if not email is sent at all.

in the UE code, there will be a line to set a variable named $EmailRef, for example:

$EmailRef = "waue_pagename_1";

this is used as a session name further down to store the email status:

$_SESSION[$EmailRef."_Status"] = $GLOBALS[$EmailRef."_Status"];

if the email is successful, that session will equal "Success", you could hand code an if statement around the update code:

<?php

if(isset($_SESSION['waue_pagename_1_Status']) && $_SESSION['waue_pagename_1_Status'] == "Success") { 

<perform update>

}

?>

Perfect. Well near perfect... Should "Successful email send" be a trigger. Anyway I can use the default GUI and get a trigger that would accomplish this.

I can use this to wrap the update, but not in the GUI as a trigger, so it will work.

no, there is not a successful email send trigger, it needs to be hand coded.

OK, Thanks.

Well unfortunately this trigger did not work AND I am getting no email logging.
When I dump the variables, it looks like the session values are all empty.

[waue_thank-you_1_Index] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_Log] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_From] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_To] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_Subject] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_Body] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_Header] =>      
[waue_thank-you_1_Status] =>

This site moved to GoDaddy and sends through their relay server. The emails are going through, but I have no information to log or trigger on coming back from the email server it seems.

Has this been an issue that has been addressed before? Would using PEAR make any difference?

For the time being, I had to just stop testing for the success or failure of the email and just assume it succeeds each time. (e.g. if the email code runs, assume it worked and run the update code). :confused:

make sure you have @session_start(); on the page before referencing session variables.

it may be that you have the wrong session variable name.

use this code to dump all sessions and find the correct name:

<?php @session_start(); var_dump($_SESSION); ?>

The session is started. The Uemail code starts the session, and the page begins with:

<?php
/*
    CONFIGURATION
*/
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
    session_start();
}...

I also do not seem to have the wrong variable name. The "code" I posted:

[waue_thank-you_1_Index] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_Log] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_From] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_To] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_Subject] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_Body] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_Header] =>       
[waue_thank-you_1_Status] =>

is part of a variable dump. This site is hosted on GoDaddy, and to send an email from a web site, one has to use a remote server (relay-hosting.secureserver.net). I am wondering if this mail server does not provide the responses necessary for logging.

Like I said, the email goes out, but there seems to be no data to log after the email transaction completes.

in the variable dump do those variables have values?

What is the results of the variable dump?


Where are you trying to use those variables?

Poste a copy of the page for inspection please.

If you open a support case, I would be happy to share the page. I do not like to post whole pages from live sites in the forum.

There seems to be some confusion, though. I started out trying to figure out why the condition didn't work, then I saw that no logging would occur, then I dumped the values to check:

<?php if ($test_mode) { // IF IN TEST MODE, DISPLAY DEBUG DATA ?>
        <div style="border:solid 1px #FFFFFF; margin:10px; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">SESSION:<pre><?php print_r($_SESSION); ?></pre></div>
<div style="border:solid 1px #FFFFFF; margin:10px; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">POST:<pre><?php print_r($_POST); ?></pre></div>
<div style="border:solid 1px #FFFFFF; margin:10px; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">GET:<pre><?php print_r($_GET); ?></pre></div>
         <?php } ?>

The output is long, so I only posted a portion of the dump. The portion of the dump I posted shows the variables are created but have no value.