On 1/21/2014 7:03 AM, tamouse pontiki wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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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.
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