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Posted by Shelly on 10/25/06 10:44
"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:64989$453edcfb$8259c69c$12384@news1.tudelft.nl...
> Shelly wrote:
>> I am looking for suggestions for the best way to do this. I can hack
>> it out to make it happen, but I thought I would make use of the
>> expertise to do it the best way.
>>
>> I have a form with a drop-down list of users. I want to use a button
>> to send mail to the user that is currently showing in the drop-down
>> list. When this button is pressed, I want the user's default email
>> program to come up with the email address of that person filled in.
>> (the email addresses are in the database and can be retrieved easily).
>>
>> I can go to the process of having a separate mail form with a text
>> box and gathering all the info and then using mail() to send it. Or,
>> I can have the button exercise some code that runs separate window
>> and exercises a mailto in the html area with the address filled out
>> and then kills the window, leaving the user's email reader up there.
>>
>> Both seem rather cumbersome. Is there an easier way?
>
> No.
> Either use javascript for a emulate a click on a 'mailto:' link, which is
> highly unreliable, or use a form. That would not neccesarily require
> another page, just another textarea & button.
>
> Even if (and that's a big if) the UA will grant the 'mailto:' option,
> there
> is no way to know for sure this UA:
> 1. Knows which is the default email-program.
> 2. Succeeds in opening the emailprogram.
>
> There is another way: give the users emailadress, and let them open their
> emailclient themselves.
> --
> Rik Wasmus
Thanks, Rik. That is what I was afraid of. The users in this case is the
owner of the site (and not technically savvy). Part of the spec is to be
able to send email to a person on the client list. So, I will simply have a
full page available with a text area and look like a mail form - or just a
text field for the subject and a text area for the message. I will then use
the mail() function. While I am at it, I guess I'll include another button
to send to his entire client list.
It would have been nice if there were a function to open the default email
client from php.
Shelly
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