email a form as an attachment?

slobad23 · Jun 30, 2006

Here is what i would like to do. Basically i want to put a page on a few PC's on a server and i want them to be able to click a button that emails the completed form to me.

Here is a really simple example:

the form has a text box for notes and a combo box with the name of who they wish to have a meeting with. i want the button to open up outlook express (for which i am using the mail.to command) but i want the email to contain, either as an attachment or as the content of the email itself, whatever is being displayed on the form once they click the button.

How is this done?

cLFlaVA · Jun 30, 2006

you're lucky, i felt generous. here's a complete working example...

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--

function doSubmit() {
    var f = document.forms['f'];
    var e = f.elements;
    var a = "mailto:my@email.com&subject=Meeting Request&body=";
    a += "comments: " + e['comments'].value + ", ";
    a += "person: " + e['person'].options[e['person'].selectedIndex].value;
    
    f.action = a;
}

//--></script>
</head>

<body>

<form name="f" onsubmit="doSubmit();">
    <input type="text" name="comments" />
    <select name="person">
        <option value="Cory Arthus">Cory</option>
        <option value="David Wright">David</option>
        <option value="Carlos Beltran">Carlos</option>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

*cLFlaVA
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slobad23 · Jun 30, 2006

You my friend, are a living legend.

Thank you very much!!!

cLFlaVA · Jun 30, 2006

i know.

just remember, as always, that people could potentially have javascript disabled on their machines - rendering the code above useless. the most robust way to handle this is with some server-side code that will generate and send the email for you, but that's a discussion for another forum.

*cLFlaVA
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email a form as an attachment?

slobad23

IS-IT--Management

cLFlaVA

Programmer

slobad23

IS-IT--Management

cLFlaVA

Programmer

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