Re: Handling an email form

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com>wrote: > I can create a valid html email containing a form and an input and submit > tag in it. With this I wish to call a script on my website and have it > take the value of the input and update a record in a mysql table. The > concept is pretty straight-forward, but I'm having no luck with the > execution. > > For one thing - my email client insists on opening a new browser window as > soon as I click on the input tag. That is probably some email setting that > I'll have to dig into. And it does it again when I click on the submit > button. But the real problem is that the script called from this email > form doesn't seem to respond. I have tested the form right from my website > and it manages to call the script correctly and I have echoed out my > progress to verify my code works, but it just doesn't happen from the email. > > What's the trick - or can't this be done? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > For obvious reasons (phishing is one I can think of right off the bat) most email provides will strip out all form tags, let alone allow you to actually submit it in new tab. I would say your email service got it right to not process the request. I would be worry about an email service that allows such thing.