Html to email with HTML page as attachment

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Hi there

I am trying to send an online form to pdf attachment via smtp settings and not client software.

Is there script that I can use to do this, either java script I can call,

Please help

I have adobe pro if that will help, or guidance please

What I have tried:

Been looking around for answers and saw this on your page
function sendMail()
{
var link = "mailto:me@example.com"+
"?cc=CCaddress@example.com"+
"&subject=" + escape("This is subject")+
"&body=" + escape("This is body");
window.location.href = link;
}

I know this will not do what I want, but please help me.

Posted 17-May-16 4:53am

Member 12529008

Updated 18-May-16 5:04am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-May-16 13:06pm

I don't know what is "via smtp settings and not client software". You are trying to do it on the client side, why? What do you have on server side, if any?
If you want to allow the client to use client software, all you need is the anchor with e-mail address, but not all clients will be able to use it directly.
—SA

Member 12529008 17-May-16 13:21pm

HI there, sorry was not clear enough, I want to take an online form, create an button, when you press the button I want to send an email to a certain email address with the total online form attached. now this is where the trick is, I need to pre configure the script to send the email directly from the online form, php or html page. that I can configure. I don't want to uses the clients software, outlook, webmail, gmail. the mailto: works but sends only the inserted data. I want the complete form to be sent.

Please look at example http://jbaynet.co.za/page2.php I need to send this form to an email address as attachment. with preconfigured smtp settings to send out the mail

Thank you in advance

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-May-16 13:27pm

"Online form" is something handled on the server side, because a form sends HTTP request. Without it a form is pointless. JavaScript does not send mail, it can use some server or client-side mail program, which may or may not be installed.
In the code sample you reference, there is a form:

<form name="page1Form1" method="post" action="page2.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="page1Form1">

</form>

Pay attention: it sends HTTP request to "page2.php". You also should have some server-side script.

—SA

Member 12529008 17-May-16 14:19pm

Thank you for the reply, is there any other way of doing this? accept the site like jotform. None of them is custom forms!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-May-16 14:41pm

Another way is Ajax, but why?
Look, you need to tell us what do you have on the server side, otherwise there is no thing to talk about.
There is no such thing as "custom form" or "non-custom". Form is a form.
—SA

Member 12529008 18-May-16 1:51am

Mornings

Sorry you have to excuse my ignorance, Not sure what you mean. on the webserver there is no current infrastructure to accommodate this, what do I need to do, what do I need to make this work.

Please advise

Sinisa Hajnal 18-May-16 3:42am

If you don't have the ability to send mail from the server, then you're doomed to use clients available mail client (whichever that happens to be).

Better solution would be to let the user fill the form (HTML form), send the data to the server, let server fill PDF and copy it to some folder you can access (obviously, without sending mail if you cannot do it from the server).

Then you write another program that will check that server folder periodically from a computer that you control and move it locally and THEN send the mail. It is complicated, but if you don't want to depend on the user clients and you cannot have server sending mails, this is your workaround.

Member 12529008 18-May-16 4:06am

Sorry again, I can send mail from server using mailto: option, that is not the problem. but it only sends the data, not the whole form as explained, look at example http://jbaynet.co.za/page2.php I want to send the whole form as attachment. to a dedicated email address.

Thank you in advance for the reply.

Still new to website designing, and I need help please.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-16 9:40am

"using mailto:" is the way to send e-mail using the client side's mail program. Of course this is not what you need.
The example you reference uses PHP on the server side to handle HTTP request. Without it, the mail could not be composed.

What do you have on the server side? Your problem can be solved only if you answer this question, no sooner.

—SA

Member 12529008 18-May-16 10:05am

OK, On the server I have only my standard website and no other funny stuff. standard Cpanel with all the bells and whistles, I can install whatever you need under softaculous software installer. currently only 1 sql database, but can upgrade to more. Not sure if this will help. Please advise, once again sorry for my ignorance.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-16 10:43am

"Funny stuff"? I never heard of Web hosting without at least PHP. Yes, you can call PHP "funny".

So, there is the bottom line: you cannot do anything good without server-side scripting.

—SA

Sinisa Hajnal 18-May-16 3:43am

On the webserver there is no CURRENT infrastructure...does that mean you can have the infrastructure added?

Member 12529008 18-May-16 10:05am

OK, On the server I have only my standard website and no other funny stuff. standard Cpanel with all the bells and whistles, I can install whatever you need under softaculous software installer. currently only 1 sql database, but can upgrade to more. Not sure if this will help. Please advise, once again sorry for my ignorance.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2016-05-18T05:04:00

Here is the bottom line:

From the discussion in comments, it seems that you are not using server-side scripting at all. No, without server-side scripting, you cannot do anything at all. JavaScript does not send mail, it can only send HTTP request to the server side where you serve up such request by sending mail or anything else. If you use HTTP form, you don't even need JavaScript.

"Using mailto" simply means URI scheme, the one which could be used in a regular anchor. If you use such anchor on your page, it will simply load the default mail application and pass some command-line parameters to it. It also cannot help you. Moreover, you cannot even assume that a user has any mail application at all. This technique is nothing but providing contact information and saying "please send e-mail by yourself", only with some minimal convenience.

So, you always need some server-side scripting to compose and send mail. In principle, you can use some external service provided for this purpose. What I were always services operating by paid subscription. It's hard to imagine that it would make any sense for the developers having their own Web sites.

From your reply about having cPanel and 1 SQL database, I can conclude that you probably use more or less standard Web hosting, maybe LAMP. All standard hosting plans, as a bare minimum, support PHP. This is not the best language and server-side technology, but it provides some minimal tool for sending mails with attachments.

Here is how you deal with forms with PHP: PHP: Dealing with Forms — Manual[^].

Two major options for sending mail:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.phphttp://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php[^],
Manual :: sends a mail[^] (requires PEAR:
Manual :: About PEAR and PEAR2[^]).

The major problem with handling forms in general and with sending mail is security. You have to sanitize everything on the server side when you handle an HTTP Web request. For one very basic exploit, please see my past answer: unable to send mail , it showing the error in below code .[^].

You need to add mail parts representing PDF "attachment". This is just a part of your mail text with separate content-type and content-disposition headers. Please see:
Media Types[^] (note: "application/pdf"),
MIME — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^].

You have to learn all this stuff to be able to compose mail messages and send them. You also need a properly set up SMPT server (or something else), which is usually provided with your mail hosting.

I don't mean to recommend PHP here, I write about it because I cannot assume too much about your hosting environment. It's possible that you can use something better. You may need to call your hosting customer service for an advice.

—SA