emailto option in php

kireol 10 Posting Whiz · 2009-07-03T05:19:17+00:00

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

FlashCreations 20 Posting Whiz · 2009-07-03T08:02:40+00:00

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 0 Junior Poster in Training · 2009-07-03T12:41:06+00:00

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 · 2009-07-04T07:25:48+00:00

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: .