Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/25/06 10:36

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).
>

No you don't. This will expose the user's email address to the world.
These will quickly be harvested by 'bots and your users' email addresses
sold to spammers. Don't ever display an email address on a webpage.

> 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?
>
> Shelly
>
>
Use the form. Your textbox can be on the same page or another one.



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