Can i email output of a webpage to a user?

CasperCaro · February 8, 2011

Hi there, ths is my very first post to this site so thanks in advance for reading and suggesting. (And apologies if this is not correct forum)

I have a website that generates some output ( onto website File A). I want to email this output that's generated

to a users (inputted) email address.

I cant quite work out how to get that output into the email. I can cut and paste (into $menu variable in file B) but i

want to have it done automatically.

So far i have the following code (and maybe there's an easier way/ better way), but this is what i have so far.

in file A, I have the PHP/MySQL generated output and an "email" icon that displays

(

)

this redirects to file B (which pops up and asks for the email address to send generated output of file A to) when user clicks email button..

It seems from my investigations so far that I somehow have to get it into $menu variable of file B but am unsure how, or if there is

another way (to how i'm trying)? In IE7 under Page dropdown, there's an option to 'Send page by -Mail...' this is what i want mine to do

Could someone have a look and see if there's something I could try - thanks very much

file B =

<html>

<head>

<title> Email menu </title>

</head>

<body>

<h3><p align="center"><u>Email menu & nutritional information</u></p></h3> <br><br><br>

<?php echo "<br>"; echo "<br>"; echo "<br>"; ?>

indicates a required field</p>

<tr>

<p>Email </p>

</td>

<td>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<?php

$menu="if i cut and paste file A content, it does send but i want automated";

if (isset($_POST['submitok'])){

$message = "Your menu and the nutritional information for that menu below

$menu;

Kind regards,

";

mail($_POST['email'],"Your menu",$message);

Header("Location: print_menu_restrict.php");

}

?>

</body>

</html>

CasperCaro · February 9, 2011

I thought this might be tricky - and it's proving to be!

I'll ask a related question, but slightly different. I fund the following code

function mailpage()

{

mail_str = "mailto:?subject= Doc JavaScript: " + document.title;

mail_str += "&body= I recommend Doc JavaScript's (docjavascript.com) tip -- " + document.title;

mail_str += ". You should check this out at, " + location.href;

location.href = mail_str;

}

</script>

Somewhere on the page you need to provide a link that calls the above function, like this:

<A HREF = "javascript:mailpage()">E-mail This Page</A> E-mail This Page

and it would be fine except that my website requires a login. If the user stays logged in then the page from above code is fine and it shows what i want but then it

changes when the user logs out. So my question is - not being familiar too much with javascript is there a code like " + location.href;

that would give a static page (this one changes as i mention above) ?? thanks

CasperCaro · February 10, 2011

Never mind - i looked on Javascript forum and can't send emails via JS and what's being sent is a link to page, not the page itself, so it will change. So original question/post is pertinent one. How to automatically get $menu filled in(on Form B) from form A. If any one has suggestion, much appreciated.

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