RE: [PHP] mailing a cookiecontent
| From: | Dave [Hawk-Systems] | Date: | Mon, 02 Sep 2002 17:44:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] mailing a cookiecontent | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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>Here's what I wanna do:
>On the first page I collect a lot of formfield values into a cookie. On the
>next page I display the content of this cookie. This works.
>What I even want to do is mailing the cookie content in the same time I
>submit the forms in the first page (or, when the new page loads).
>I use this code on the second page:
>
>if ($REQUEST_METHOD=='POST') {
> $name = escapeshellcmd($name);
> $group = escapeshellcmd($group);
> $to = "me@myhost.se";
> $from = "FROM: $name, $group";
> $subject = "The subject of this mail\n\n";
> $body = "Name: $name\t";
> $body .= "Group: $group\n";
> $body .= "\n\n$comments\n\n";
see below, but if you cookie is named cookiestr, just us the variable here
$body .= "\n\n$cookiestr\n\n";
>
> mail($to,$subject,$body,$from);
> exit;
>}
>
>Well, I recieve a mail, but the mailcontent is empty.
>The cookie string is written to a hidden field like this:
>
> document.write('<FORM><INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=\"comments\"
>VALUE=\"'+cookiestr+'\"></FORM>');
so your cookie variable name is "cookiestr"
why use Javascript, and not just
echo '<FORM><INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="comments"
VALUE="'.$cookiestr.'"></FORM>';
Dave