Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/28/06 14:51

Martin Jay wrote:
> In message <4be9oiF10q7viU1@individual.net>, Paul Watt
> <paulioNOSPAM@wattio.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
>>"Martin Jay" <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
>>news:izsUorC2veUEFwMM@spam-free.org.uk...
>>
>>>In message <4be1geF110r4pU1@individual.net>, Paul Watt
>>><paulioNOSPAM@wattio.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>>>
>>>>I'm building a email form in a XHTML Strict page. I want to have a drop
>>>>down
>>>>selector box with 3 options in it (x,y,z for example). If x is selected I
>>>>want x to be in the subject line of the email. How can I do this? Can it
>>>>be
>>>>done without Javascript?
>
>
>>>Do you want to send the email using a mailto link, such as:
>>>
>>><a href="mailto:martin@spam-free.org.uk?subject=Email subject"> ?
>>>
>>>Selecting the subject from a drop down menu without using a script isn't
>>>possible.
>>>
>>>Another thing to bear in mind is that not everyone has a default email
>>>client set up on the computer they're using, so this sort of link may
>>>fail. :(
>
>
>>I wasn't going to use a mailto link, proberbly a cgi or php processor
>
>
> Okay, that's good.
>
> So in your HTML you'll have something like the:
>
> <select name="subject">
> <option value="Subject 1" SELECTED>Subject 1</option>
> <option value="Subject 2">Subject 2</option>
> <option value="Subject 3">Subject 3</option>
> </select>
>
> Just POST that off to your PHP script and then use the mail command:
>
> $subject = $_POST['subject'];
>
> /* It's probably a good idea to include this so you don't end up with \'
> and \" in the subject */
>
> $subject = stripslashes($subject);
>
> mail($to, $subject, $message);

Do this and you will be ripe for becoming a spam relay. At a minimum you need to
ensure there are no newline characters in the input.

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