Re: Re: Handling an email form

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote: > On 1/21/2014 7:03 AM, tamouse pontiki wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> Does the query string length limitation matter in this case? >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> > I perhaps misled you with my reference to GET. Actually it seems to grab my > input tag contents and create what LOOKS like the query portion of a normal > GET URL. In this case it is just a string that looks like this: > > pq_qty_20=22&pq_qty_18=18&pq_qty_19=19&btn=Post+Email+Purchases > > So - with this my script simply breaks it down by "&" and then by "=" > to get > my values for updating my db. In this case there are 3 sets of data to do > updates with. Where/how does that query-like string show up? Is it in the e-mail message body? I guess I could just give it a go and try it...