| Murray *TMM* 2005-09-13, 7:21 pm |
| There are only two ways to process form data -
1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page
Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.
Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
You cannot do what you want with Method 1. To get started with Method 2,
you need to ask your host what they provide for processing form data.
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"nicola@check-tek.co.uk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dg6k45$s2p$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> :confused;
> I have a html page and on it I have set up some mailto links with the
> subject
> field auto filled in. When the user clicks on the link it opens an outlook
> email message and what I would like to do is have it autosend to the email
> address.
>
> Basically depending on which link they click I want it to automatically
> send
> the email.
>
> Is there a way for this to happen..?
>
> If you could explain it to me in fairly simple terms that would be
> great...
>
> Thanks for any help received.
> Nicola
>
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