ginerjm Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I"m trying to use an email to generate some input to a script of mine. I begin by using the script on my client to generate an email that contains a form with information and an input tag and a submit button. The form triggers this same script again, but with a different intended action which is to gather the input values and update my database. Here is the form from the email: <!DOCTYPE html><html> <form name='emailform' method='POST' action='http://(mydomainname)/(myscriptname)'> (general text) <div style='background-color:#c0c0c0;padding:10px 20px;width:50%;'> <label>#20 - Bottles purchased:</label> <input type='text' name='pq_qty_20' value='' size=3 pattern='[0-9]'> </div> <br> _________<br><br><br> <div style='background-color:#c0c0c0;padding:10px 20px;width:50%;'> <input type='submit' name='btn' value='Post Email Purchases'> </div> </form> </html> So - testing this on my laptop with my browser open and running this script, I generate the email. Going to my email client and grabbing the email I click on the <input tag and my browser immediately opens up a new window running the same script. Filling in the input value and then clicking the submit button opens up a third window on my browser but no other activity occurs. What should be happening is no new browser windows (hopefully) but a process to update a record in my db from the input in the email - this does not happen though. So - I have managed to generate a vaild html email which when I test using the script on my laptop seems to be working. But when using the form from my email client I get screwy and non-existent results. Anyone done this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzman1 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Maybe the e-mail client restricts you to post/submit data within a form. Did you try using JS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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