Code To Send An Email From A Form

cool

Oct 18 2004, 03:54 PM

HTML

<form action="http://www.bool.co.il/cgi-bin/bu.cgi?page=send2friend&id=8006" method="post">
<font face="Arial"><input type="text" name="sender"></font> the sender:<br>
<input type="text" name="sender_email"> sender's mail:<br>
<font face="Arial (hebrew)"><input type="text" name="receiver"></font> to:<br>
<input type="text" name="receiver_email"> email Of receives the announcement:<br>
<font face="Arial (hebrew)"><input type="text" name="subject"></font> the subject:<br>
<input type="submit" value="send">
</form>

Ugly depricated HTML =P

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lhunath

Oct 18 2004, 08:43 PM

Try

HTML

<a href="mailto:[email adress]">Click here to mail me!</a>

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marijnnn

Oct 19 2004, 01:39 PM

hey lhunat, what the guy is doing is using a form. you are counting on an emailprogram to mail, but what if the user is on a public computer?
besides, you'll get spam if you do that. not within days, but after a while you will!

besides that, he uses some server that sends his mail, which is kinda stupid as you can easily use the 'mail' function in php.
cool things about that mail function:
you can choose the sender. so you can fake mails

))))
you can put it in a for loop. so you can choose to send a thousand times the same mail

or you can use your database and send the mail to everybody in it.

i have no idea why he's using the other server. i guess it's a service they offer and you can put that form on your site without knowing any php... something like that

l

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Hercco

Oct 22 2004, 08:19 PM

QUOTE (marijnnn @ Oct 19 2004, 03:39 PM)

i have no idea why he's using the other server. i guess it's a service they offer and you can put that form on your site without knowing any php... something like that

Well... using that other server "bool.co.il" saves bandwidth from his own account. And it seems likely that Cool doesn't yet have an account here at astahost, so his might be on a server that doesn't allow CGI or PHP (or ASP or whatever).

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lhunath

Oct 23 2004, 01:40 PM

I know very well that he's using a form and that mailto uses a clientsided email client. Which is exactly why I posted it. Using forms like this is rather silly, and if you really want to do it, then you should indeed use PHP's mail function. I think you should use mailto since it gives more power to the user, whereas a form is not userfriendly.

Although you need to keep in mind that the mail PHP function is disabled on alot of servers out of security conscearns. And if you want to send fake mail, just use your own email client at home? Why make it all so hard?

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marijnnn

Oct 23 2004, 02:01 PM

i like the option to send 500 mails, using a for loop

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k22

Oct 24 2004, 12:32 PM

On Lycos i remember you can send max 50 mails/day
on astahost is there a max?

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iGuest-Anu

Aug 29 2008, 05:39 AM

How can I add javascript code with html code while sending email
Code To Send An Email From A Form

Hi all,

I am sending a mail, in that I set the count down timer because if the receiver reads the mail more than 25sec.. Then it should go to db.
For this I have used java script setTimeout() in the mail part with HTML code. But this javascript is not working when receiver receives the email.

Should I specify anything in header part to accept javascript?

Can any one gives an idea to do this..

Regards
Anu,

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Habble

Sep 14 2008, 04:18 AM

Are you sure this is right all the other one i have herd of have other pages like postit.php and thankyou.php but this one only looks like one page i may be wrong but i dont know

Cheers

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Herbert

Sep 18 2008, 04:01 AM

I much prefer to code my own php file to send emails from my web server. You can control which fields you want to have populated, and with a little javascript, you can add validation to the fields so that people can't just hit submit without entering in valid data. It's not hard if you look into it, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with PHP

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