Help with Formatting Forms that send emails

[Paul_HP Design]

I designed a form page with Dreamweaver and set the action to send me an email
of the content of the form. The only problem is that the email format is in
plain text and would be difficult for my co-workers to decipher. I am trying
to find a way to send the contents of the form in a structured professional
format. It would be great if I could send the info in a format that was set up
like the form. If anyone could help I would appreciate it.

[Joe Makowiec]

On 24 May 2005 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Paul_HP Design wrote:

> I designed a form page with Dreamweaver and set the action to send
> me an email of the content of the form. The only problem is that
> the email format is in plain text and would be difficult for my
> co-workers to decipher. I am trying to find a way to send the
> contents of the form in a structured professional format. It would
> be great if I could send the info in a format that was set up like
> the form.

In general, if you don't want to use an HTML e-mail, you need to do
something like:

Sender's address: 123 Main Street
Sender's City: Anytown USA 12345

To do this, you need to create the e-mail like:

PHP:
$body = 'Sender\'s address: ' . $_POST['streetAddress'] . "\n";
$body .= 'Sender\'s City: ' . $_POST['city'] . $_POST['zip'] . "\n";

where \n is the newline character

ASP/VBScript:
body = "Sender's address: " & request.Form("streetAddress") & vbCrLf
body = body & "Sender's city: " & request.Form("city") & request.Form
("zip") & vbCrLf

where vbCrLf is the newline character

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Joe Makowiec
[url]http://makowiec.net/[/url]
Email: [url]http://makowiec.net/email.php[/url]

[Manuel Socarras]

to sent how? with action="mailto:john@doe.com" or calling a web app? in
this case wich server model/language?

Paul_HP Design wrote:

> I designed a form page with Dreamweaver and set the action to send me an email
> of the content of the form. The only problem is that the email format is in
> plain text and would be difficult for my co-workers to decipher. I am trying
> to find a way to send the contents of the form in a structured professional
> format. It would be great if I could send the info in a format that was set up
> like the form. If anyone could help I would appreciate it.
>