webstar — Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:04:25 +0000

thanks very much.

jonsteele — Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:56:01 +0000

That would work if you don't have any textarea fields. For multiple one-line values, you can use something like this:

location.href = "mailto:abc@def.com?BODY=Value1="+document.forms(0).mytext1.value+"\nValue2="+document.forms(0).mytext2.value+"\nValue3="+document.forms(0).mytext3.value+"\nValue4="+document.forms(0).mytext4.value+"\nValue5="+document.forms(0).mytext5.value

You mail'll look something like:

Value1=blahblah
Value2=blahblah
Value3=blahblah
Value4=blahblah
Value5=blahblah

For sending mail in general, I strongly recommend PHP (if you have it on your server). Look here for a good tutorial:http://www.thickbook.com/extra/php_email.phtml

Jon.

webstar — Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:38:14 +0000

jonsteele

Yes, that can be done. then if i understand right would i have to write functions for all the fields?
Another thing is.....the user must have all the email options set up right for the mailto: to work. so i guess i'll wait till learn cold fusion or cgi.
thanks for the tip

jonsteele — Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:44:01 +0000

couldn't you add the fields to the mailto manually? using BODY?

&lt;script&gt;
function sendmail(){
location.href = "mailto:abc@def.com?BODY="+document.forms(0).mytext.value;
}
&lt;/script&gt;

<form>
<textarea cols="40" rows="20" name="mytext"></textarea>
<input type="button" onclick="sendmail()">
</form>

This might bring up other problems (like carriage returns for long text) but those can be fixed using othermethods. If you have one line fields, then its ok.

Jon.

webstar — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:46:03 +0000

Jack
You can set up the default email whatever you want by changing the 'programs' menu in internet options of IE.
I found this one site http://www.response-o-matic.com
they'll process you forms for free and the form data is emailed to you. I tried it but it is VERY slow. so for now, i just have my email address on the site, no forms.
Thanks

Jack Michaelson — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:27:53 +0000

webstar,

not that I know of.
It is Netscape that comes up with the default mail-program, right?

webstar — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:57:28 +0000

Jack

So theres no way to solve this problem without having a ..cgi/bin dir ? I wanted something simpler.
Thanks anyway.

Jack Michaelson — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:53:57 +0000

Yeah, I've had the same problem and this is how I solved it:

1. I went to Matt's Script Archive and downloaded formscript.pl

2. I altered the file to my needs

3. Loaded the formscript.pl up to my cgi-bin dir.

4. changed the action into action=../cgi-bin/formscript.pl

5. tested it

6. noticed that the problem was solved

7. shouted out all kind of nice words!