Sending password link to email when user forget password

Question

I have the problem, how to send a password link to user email when the user clicks the forget password link....

Here is ForgetPasswordViewController.php... i developed this for simply showing a alert... But when coming to real time.. i don't know how to send the password link.. to user email...

    <?php


      header("Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
      header("Pragma: no-cache");
      header("Expires: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT");

//If you are not submitting the form HTML will be directly shown

         if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) 
          {
     ?>
         <html>
         <body>

       <form name='f1' method="POST" action=""  onSubmit="return ValidateEmail();">     
      <div id="fp">
       <span style="margin-left:-50px">Email:</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
        <span><input  class="input" type="text" name="Email"   placeholder="Enter mailID" required></span><br>
        <input  style="height:50px; width:120px; background:url(Images/submit_butto.gif) no-repeat right top; border: none;" type="submit"  name="submit" value="">
       <?PHP 
       } 
      else
      {
         $Email=$_POST['Email'];
        if(!empty($Email))
        {
         $model = new UsersModel();
         $rowsCount = $model->checkUserEmail($Email);
          echo $rowsCount;
         if ($rowsCount!=0)
         {
//If you are submitting the form insert the details into database
        echo '<script type="text/javascript">alert("A password hasbeen sent to your Email..");
        window.location.href="LoginViewController.php";</script>';
     }
     else
      {
    echo'<script type="text/javascript">alert("Enter valid email");
        window.location.href="ForgetPasswordViewController.php";</script>';
        }

        }
        }
      ?>
     </body>
    </html>

Any suggestions are acceptable....

What is the specific problem? You don't know how to create the link? You don't know how to send an email? — deceze, Jun 27 '13 at 06:29
Just an additional interesting read: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1069799/1063823 — Duikboot, Jun 27 '13 at 06:35
possible duplicate of [How to send mail using PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/634029/how-to-send-mail-using-php) — deceze, Jun 27 '13 at 06:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '13 at 06:33

Use this code if you want to send an email:

$to      = 'recepient@somemail.com';
$subject = 'Subject here';
$message = "Content";
$message .= "more Content";
$message .= "even more Content or a variable".$variable;
$headers = 'From: sender@yourdomain.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: sender@yourdomain.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Be aware that there are security issues like header injection if you don't validate the user input. A good email validation is this:

$to = $_POST["email"];
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { /*mail is ok*/ }
else {/*mail is NOT ok*/}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 06:49

1

You can send mail using PHPMailer

Here is the simple tutorial for PHPMailer

How to send mail using PHP

answered Jun 27 '13 at 06:49

Rohitashv Singhal

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If you like the answer then you can accept or vote up answers – Rohitashv Singhal Jun 27 '13 at 06:54
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But for vote up need some reputation points... i don't have...those. and i already accepted Sergio answer... – PHP CODER Jun 27 '13 at 06:56

Sending password link to email when user forget password

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