Re: Handling an email form

On 1/19/2014 11:40 AM, Jim Giner 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? Well - for those with an interest here is what I have found.

1 - Can't seem to 'send' that email (html) form back to my target mailbox. Nor can I forward that mailbox to a php script and receive the post data. 2 - Can however change the form's action to be a 'mailto:' which DOES capture the post data from the form and send it as a GET string in a brand new email with the 'mailto' address all setup in the new email. With that, I can then just hit 'send' and the email goes to my designated mailbox where I can then execute my script to process the parms in the body of the message and my problem is solved. So - it's not complete automated, but it's two click to create it and send it, then another on my website to process any outstanding emails in that inbox.