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HTML Variable Substitution

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rfhall3

rfhall3

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I know this has been asked numerous times, but I can't find the answer.....

I am using MAILTO in HTML. I want to use a variable in my code, i.e., Input a field and include it in the message. Is this possible ???? I know there are better ways, but I would like to stick with this simple approach for now.

In the following code, I want to use the value inputted into T1 in place of the value [red]ZZZ[/red].

Simple sample code is:

[blue]
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Name:
<input type="text" name="T1" size="34">
<p>
<A href='mailto:me@myisp.net?subject=MySub&body=AAA%0a[red]ZZZ[/red]%0aCCC'>Click to E-Mail</A>
</p>
</body>
</html>
[/blue]

Can it be done this way ????
Thank You Very Much.

Bob Hall
 
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What language are you using to plug the variable value into the HTML code? It looks like you'd probably either use Javascript or VBScript.

Lee
 
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There's nothing fancy here. It's all HTML. All I want to do is include whatever is typed in the input box to show up in the body of the e-mail.

Thanks.

Bobby

 
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Just paste your report into the text area.

Code: 
<html><head><title>
My Expense Report
</title></head>
<body bgcolor="yellow"><b>TO:
me@mysite.com
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SUBJECT:
Expenses
</b><form method="POST"
action="mailto:
me@mysite.com
?subject=
Expenses
"enctype="text/plain" target=_blank>
<textarea name="Data" rows="20"
cols="80" readonly>
</textarea><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form></body></html>

Clive
 
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Sorry, I guess I was trying to keep the example toooooo simple. I actually have about 12 variables that I want to include in the e-mail. It's pretty much a questionaire. I just thought if I could get an example of one variable being included in the e-mail, I would just follow the same idea for the rest. But anyway, thank you for your reply.

Any other suggestions on using variables (and sticking with HTML) ?????

Thank You.

Bobby
 
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>Any other suggestions on using variables (and sticking with HTML) ?????

Without using a script in the HTML code?

1. HTML alone will not do it.
2. Scripts are used in HTML to solve this type of problems.

The only way I know of:
3. From another application, you can create your HTML on the fly and thus include all the needed values. VB code can do this easily.

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I'll try to explain my problem better......

In the working example below there are 2 input boxes. In the real applicaion there are actually 12. The objective is to get the information typed in the input boxes to be included in the body of the email some how, some way.

This is about as simple as I can make it.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Name: <input type="text" name="T1" size="34">
<br>
Address: <input type="text" name="T2" size="34">
<br>
<A href='mailto:me@myisp.net?subject=MySub&body='>Click to E-Mail</A>
</body>
</html>

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Bobby
 
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Have you tried adding the form action as the mailto:?

I have never used mailto for forms so not sure exactly how it works now but it should so what you are looking for.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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This code works for me:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<title>Email form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<form action="mailto:me@mydomain.com?subject=Form results" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Name: <input type="text" name="Name" /><br />
Age: <input type="text" name="Age" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Send mail" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

This results in an email being sent to the specified address with the subject "Form results" and the following body:

Code: 
Name=<name entered on form>
Age=<age entered on form>

Remember this relies on the user having a mail client installed and configured on their system.

--James
 
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Thank y'all ever so much. The form method was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, server side languages are not available with Cox, so ASP and PHP were not options.

Thanks again for the help.

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Bobby
 
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