Question

I’m using a javascript shopping cart on a store, and I want to send an order confirmation on checkout. The problem is that the cart isn’t saved in database of any kind, and is printed with javascript. How would I attach it to the email? I’ve included the shopping cart script on the page that sends the mail.

<table class="simpleCart_items"></table> would print the cart, but how would I attach the printed cart to email?

Hidden input or something?

UPDATE

My ajax call looks like this:

var data = $('#yhteystiedot').serialize();
      data.cartContent = $('.simpleCart_items').html(); 
      //alert (dataString);return false;
     $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "order.php",
    data: data,
    dataType: "text",
    error: function(){ alert("Jotakin meni pahasti pieleen! Yritä uudelleen?");
 },
    success: function() {
 $(document).html("Tilaus lähti.");
        }


  });

Answer 1

I asume your $.ajax() call looks something like this:

$('form').submit(function(){
    var dataTrunk = $(this).serializeArray();
    dataTrunk.push( { name: 'cartContent', value: $(your_table_selector).html()});
    $.ajax({
        url: 'mail.php', // your mail script
        data: dataTrunk,
        type: 'post'
    });
    return false;
});

In php you would trap $_POST['cartContent'] and render it in email and send it.

If you are sending email with html and plain text body, then it would probably be a good idea to strip html elements and replace them with chars that are compatible with plain text.

// edited: I’ve fixed the error