[headbirth]

Hi! was hoping someone could help me out on this. I've decided to skip CGI and PHP mail scripts for my newsletter signup because I haven't got a clue how to configure them.

So, I thought I would simply use a link that would activate the users email client and fill in the subject and hopefully the body. I ran across a script to fill in the subject, but it seems to break when I use an image button instead of the canned html button:

Original:
[FORM>
[INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Click Here to Write to Me"
onClick="parent.location='mailto:spammer@earthling .net?subject=This goes to the subject'"]
[/FORM]


Revised:
[INPUT TYPE="image" src="../Images/SignUp_Text.jpg" onClick="parent.location='mailto:spammer@earthling .net?subject=This goes to the subject'"]
[/FORM][/td]

Anyone have a clue as to why the image button seems to only reload the page?

Also can anyone clue me in as to how to fill in the body of the email?

[clam2000]

i may be wrong but i believe you can do:

[form action="mailto:spammer@earthling.net?subject=subje ct goes here"]

and then have your image input submit the form (if you use image it will have to be with javascript in the onClick argument)

--will

[Avenir]

if you're interested, my old ISP has a free (open) email server script thing that anyone can tap into...

go to http://www.avenirex.com/aroundoahu/ to see the signup form for addresses.

or this basic "comments" form:
http://www.avenirex.com/v4/contact.html

the code looks like this from the first one:

Code:
<form action="http://www.aloha.net/cgi-bin/hol_mail.cgi" method="POST">
					</p>
					<p><input type="hidden" name="to" value="yoruemail@email.com"><input type="hidden" name="sub" value="EMAILSUBJECT"><input type="hidden" name="home" value="HTTP://URLTOTAKEYOUBACKWHENDONE"><input type="hidden" name="result_page" value="URLOFPAGETOSAYTHANKS"><input type="text" name="from" value="enter email" size="11" font="Arial" face="Arial"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
					</form>

and, despite all that, it's really easy to configure otherwise, you can just do simple mailto links even where the url is mailto:email@email.com?subject=enter+subject+here

or something like that

[edit] ahh crap, I can't get it to show you code without rendering it, but if you click "edit" on my message, you should be able to see it

[redJag]

Originally posted by Avenir:

Code:
[form action="http://www.aloha.net/cgi-bin/hol_mail.cgi" method="POST"]

[p]
[input type="hidden" name="to" value="yoruemail@email.com"]
[input type="hidden" name="sub" value="EMAILSUBJECT"]
[input type="hidden" name="home" value="HTTP://URLTOTAKEYOUBACKWHENDONE"]
[input type="hidden" name="result_page" value="URLOFPAGETOSAYTHANKS"]
[input type="text" name="from" value="enter email" size="11" font="Arial" face="Arial"]

[input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"]

[/form]

We can't edit your posts But it does show up when we click reply. Here it is in square-bracket form. Too lazy to type in the < >

[Avenir]

Originally posted by redJag:
We can't edit your posts But it does show up when we click reply. Here it is in square-bracket form. Too lazy to type in the < >

muchas gracias, that's what i shoulda done all along i guess... or a screen shot