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emailto option in php

Is there emaito option in HTML available in php

I want to open up outlook so that the user reviews the filled mail before sending it.

I want to include table and chart also in the body of the message.

Re: emailto option in php

nothing in PHP to do this. If anything it'd be a MIME type in HTML

Re: emailto option in php

Well this wouldn't be PHP, it would be HTML and maybe JavaScript. You could create a link on your page like this:

<?php

echo "<a href='mailto:email@domain.com?subject=Email Subject&body=Insert HTML table here and chart here' id='emailLink'>Send Email (Opens in Outlook)</a>";

?>

For more on

mailto:

syntax see this page.
And you could even go the extra mile by adding this JavaScript code so that the link is automatically clicked when the page loads:

<script type="text/javascript">

clickEmailLink(){document.location.href=document.getElementById('emailLink').href;}

</script>

This would require you to add

onload="clickEmailLink();"

as an attribute to your body tag. Like this, in case you were wondering:

<html>

<head>

...

</head>

<body onload="clickEmailLink();">

...

</body>

</html>

You must understand that not everyone in the word has Outlook or uses it. Unless you're positive that all of your users use Outlook, I would try for a simple PHP mail() command that would first print the message for the user to approve. Then once it was approved, the message would be sent by another PHP script.

Re: emailto option in php

Hello,

as the "Flash Creations " said, emailto is only to be used through html.... you can jst print it in php

like

print"<a href="emailto:abc@def.com" > Send mail</a>"

Re: emailto option in php

Quote:

Originally Posted by emarshah (Post 907186)

Hello,

as the "Flash Creations " said, emailto is only to be used through html.... you can jst print it in php

like

print"<a href="emailto:abc@def.com" > Send mail</a>"

Yes, but as far as I know, it's

mailto:

not

emailto: