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.
DiyaMV
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Jump to Postnothing in PHP to do this. If anything it'd be a MIME type in HTML
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kireol
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nothing in PHP to do this. If anything it'd be a MIME type in HTML
FlashCreations
20
Posting Whiz
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.
emarshah
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Junior Poster in Training
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>"
FlashCreations
20
Posting Whiz
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: .
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