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email with out php? or with? ~eXe~
2/13/2006 8:42:36 PM
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hi I need help to e-mail a forum that a user fills out.
I was going to use the "mailto" html tag, but it doesn't work
with mozilla due to the find on this page feature.
When you use a browser that suports this, it opens up
outlook explorer. I can't have that on my site.

Is there a way to do it in html, flash or java wiht out using serverside
scripting?
My webhost doesn't provide php support so I cant use that. is there a way to
do this?

If there is no way I can switch hosting but I still don't know how to write
php,
Any help would be welcome. Thanks to any one who looks this over.
Re: email with out php? or with? ~eXe~
2/13/2006 9:37:54 PM
Re: email with out php? or with? blemmo
2/14/2006 5:07:53 PM
Hi,

no, you can't send emails just in Flash/html. There are 2 ways to send email:
client-side or server-side. You tried the client-side ("mailto:...."), this
would just bring up the user's email program and use it for sending.
Server-side, you'd have to use PHP, Perl or any other language, to access the
server's mail program, but your host must allow that.
So I guess you have to switch hosting. The PHP mail function is quite easy and
well documented, it shouldn't be hard to get into it.

cheers,
blemmo
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