ExactTarget subscribe form also sends form detail - php

Question

Currently have a newsletter subscribe form that submits info to a an ExactTarget account.
Is it possible to have the same form send an email, similar to a PHP contact form?
At one time this was a PHP form.
I did review Denver's MailChimp Subscribe in Contact Form option:
Mail Chimp Subscribe In Contact Form
This form does not need a check box to subscribe to the newsletter.
<form action="http://cl.exct.net/subscribe.aspx?lid=hidden" name="subscribeForm" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="thx" value="enewsletter-thank-you.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="err" value="enewsletter-error.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="MID" value="hidden" />
<ul class="contactForm">
<li class="contactForm">
<label class="formFieldQuestion">E-mail Address: <span class="redrequired">*</span></label>
<input class="field-text" type="text" name="Email Address" size="20" value=""></li>
<li class="contactForm">
<label class="formFieldQuestion">Full Name:</label>
<input class="field-text" type="text" name="Full Name" size="20" value=""></li>
<li class="contactForm">
<label class="formFieldQuestion">Company:</label>
<input class="field-text" type="text" name="Company or Organization" size="20" value=""></li>
<li style="padding-left:10px;">
<input id="saveForm" class="button_form" type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="submit"> </li>
</ul>
</form>

Answer 1

Yes, you can send this as a curl request. Change your form action to something like mail_and_submit.php.
Then, in mail_and_submit.php:
//extract data from the post
extract($_POST);
//set POST variables
$url = 'http://cl.exct.net/subscribe.aspx?lid=hidden';
$fields = array(
'thx' => urlencode($thx),
'error' => urlencode($error),
'MID' => urlencode($MID),
... (etc)
);
//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string, '&');
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
THEN, build the email message with those same fields, and send, with something like:
$message = 'A post was submitted:<br/>';
$message .= 'thx: ' . $thx;
$message .= 'error: ' . $error;
$message .= 'MID: ' . $mid;
... etc, then mail with:
mail('some-email#address.com', 'Your Entry', $message);