emailing a web page 1

[joezapp]

Hi
I'm designing a page showing a client invoice. Ideally I'd like to be able to provide the users with an 'email' button, or something similar, that would email this page to a supplied address (either as an attachment, which I'd prefer, or as the email body)

I'm guessing this'd involve forms and MIME types but as I'm a relative newbie I'm finding it hard to get my head around this.

Any help or suggestions very greatly received.

Thanks

joe

 

[gerrygerry]

If you have CGI access on your server you can download Matt Wrights form mail script. Its pretty thorough, but I can help you if you want.

gerrygerry
geraldschafer@hotmail.com

 

[baad]

hie
i think it must be smth like this (cgi, as gerrygerry told)

http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml

regards, vic

 

[joezapp]

thanx vituz and gerrygerry (where could I get Matt Wrights script? do you have the URL?).

I've looked at the birdcast.cgi script and it's almost what I'm after - but - rather than providing a URL I'd like the current webpage to attach itself to the email or somesuch

The reason behind this is that our backoffice bods currently look at and authorise invoices on our intranet - at present they have to a convaluted print from the screen html and then send this to clients. I know that they could do similar by saving the screen to file and then sending this but..

It'd be cool if I could just give them a button/form (name, company, couple of lines of text etc) that enables them to email the client with a short message and the invoice attached. Just providing a URL would mean that clients wouldn't be able to see the file without firewalls, passwords etc etc etc.

Any further enlightenment greatly appreciated

Cheers,

Joe

 

[gerrygerry]

Matts script is great, and is very widley used. I found it pretty simple to modify.
You can download it at:

http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml