Help with a simple email form please

[pc_guy84]

Hey everyone I'm working on an email submit form and need your help.

When this form is submitted, I want to pull the value from the "student_name" field and add it to my MAILTO:?subject= line.

[If it worked properly I'd end up with an email that contains the form's contents and had "OJT Weekly Time sheet for "STUDENT_NAME"" as the subject.]

My code looks like this so far:

<FORM NAME = "form" ACTION = "mailto:xxx@xxx.com?subject=OJT Weekly Time Sheet for "form.STUDENT_NAME.value" METHOD = "POST" ENCTYPE = "text/plain">

...<INPUT name="STUDENT_NAME" TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="30">...

I hope I've made my idea clear enough but it's kinda hard to explain. Does ANYBODY have an idea as to how I can make this subject addition happen? I know it has to be something really easy that I'm just missing. Help please. :confused:

[AdamGundry]

I think you can do this (untested):

<form name="form" action="mailto:example@example.com?subject=OJT Weekly Time Sheet" method="POST" enctype="text/plain" onsubmit="this.action = 'mailto:example@example.com?subject=OJT Weekly Time Sheet for ' + document.form.STUDENT_NAME.value">

Adam

[PeOfEo]

*Note html forms will only work if a user has a mail client on their computer. It is much safer to design or get a premade mail application that uses a server side language and use your hosts smtp server.

[pyro]

You could do it easily with this (http://www.webdevfaqs.com/php.php#mailer) form processor.

Just change $subject = "Results from your Request Info form"; #set the subject line to something like this:

$subject = $_POST['STUDENT_NAME']; #set the subject line

[AdamGundry]

Sorry, I should have pointed out that a server-side script would be better. :o

Pyro, it looks like webdevfaqs.com could be quite useful - nice work!

Adam

[pc_guy84]

Hey everyone thanks for your help. I appreciate the suggestion of using server-side app but in my situation the only people with access to this form have email clients installed (school/educational use).

Adam, thanks a bunch for the help- it did exactly what I was trying to accomplish.

[pyro]

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