Sending an email containing user-entered data

I am developing an app for a business. This app is essentially a product order app that takes the products from a database file. When the file is selected, it mov开发者_如何学Pythones to a page with options of quantity, length, color, etc. Then, if the purchase is confirmed, it goes to another page to fill out user information.

Is there a way to print the details the user inputs from both pages to an email and send that email to a specific billing address? To the user it is just simply hitting the confirm button, but in the background it sends an email with all this info. I have found different forums talking about email from an iPhone app but none seem to work the way I need them to.

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You can add any text to mail composer like this:

MFMailComposeViewController *mailController = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[mailController setMessageBody:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"User %@ ordered %d of %@ at a price of %f",
                                orderCustomer,
                                orderQuantity,
                                orderItem,
                                orderPrice]
                        isHTML:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:mailController animated:YES];
[mailController release];

As you can see, you can also insert html into the mail message body if you want your order to be formatted nicely.

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Yes it is. One simple method for capturing user input is to use a screen shot. Then attaching it to an email. You can render the screen to pdf or image format.

Something like:

//draw main window in image context
UIWindow *window=[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] objectAtIndex:0];
[[window layer] renderInContext:context];
//convert to UIImage
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
//clean up
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
//return
return image;    

As for sending an email in the background you will need to use a third party library. MFMailComposeViewController can be used to send an email from iOS but it requires the user to confirm the email dialog.