Posted by Shelly on 09/20/07 18:20

"UKuser" <spidercc21@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 20 Sep, 10:57, Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>> In our last episode,
>> <1190279583.798638.170...@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, the lovely and
>> talented UKuser broadcast on comp.lang.php:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I'm sending users an email with a form button which opens up one of my
>> > pages which I'm hosting on my website. However when I go to include()
>> > the files necessary for the PHP page to run it won't work.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand this. Why would they need any php files?
>> Why wouldn't a plain old HTML file work (assuming they have a mail client
>> that will use a web browser on an HTML file).
>>
>> > Is there a way to include files outside the server by using an include
>> > or alternative statement? I.e. include("http://www.mysite.co.uk/
>> > functions.php")??
>> > Thanks
>> > A
>>
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>
> Hi Lars,
>
> Sorry for the confusion. I've decided to use a link rather than a
> button which opens the page properly.
>
> Basically I had a submit button in the email - opened in Outlook -
> click submit - but Outlook opens a temporary internet file rather than
> the actual page. As a result, I wanted to build the temporary internet
> file on the users computer but couldnt include the full links to the
> files required.
>
> Thanks though.
>
> A

Why not have the button effect a link to the real page?

Shelly

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