Form to E-mail back to a Viewable Form

jiggard · 23-Jun-2005, 12:08 PM #1

I have my form sending to my e-mail so it prints out my data line by line. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to get this data into a nice form that can easily be read.

E-mail from From Looks like this.

jnum=12345
jtitle=blah
fname=nick
mi=d
lname=johnson
ssn=1234
email=blah@blah.com
oname=
address=123321

jabberwo · 29-Jun-2005, 11:42 PM #2

I'm not exactly sure how you got the data to your email account, but you probably used some sort of server-side language in the process.

To manage this data more efficiently, you need some sort of programming language on the web server. There's a good chance you have access to perl (a powerful if somewhat old-fashioned and geeky language) or perhaps one of the more modern workhorses, PHP or ASP.NET.

The language on the server will interpret all the information as variable / value pairs, and you can use the variables to create as sophisticated a look as you want. You can then save this data as a file, send it as an email, or whatever else you wish...

Hope this helps!

Sujit Joshi · 02-Jul-2005, 04:50 AM #3

i guess that you are using some server side scripting language like PHP,ASP...
if you are using PHP as server side scripting language then u might be using mail() in ur program right? then before sending mail using mail() put all u r data values in a table in some proper fasion some thing like this

<?php
$table = "<html><head><body>";
$table .= "<table width='80%'>";
$table .= "<tr><td>Jnumber</td><td>'.$jnum.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>Title</td><td>'.$jtitle.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>First name</td><td>'.$fname.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>mi</td><td>'.$mi.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>lname</td><td>'.$lname.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>ssn</td><td>'.$ssn.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>email</td><td>'.$email.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>oname</td><td>'.$oname.'</td>";
$table .= "<tr><td>address</td><td>'.$address.'</td>";
$table .= "</body></head></html>";
?>

and then use this $table variable as u r body parameter for mail().
try it out i think it will work.
good luck

Rockn · 02-Jul-2005, 12:21 PM #4

That would only be is they were using PHP, kind of useless on a site that may not support it.

jiggard · 05-Jul-2005, 09:53 AM #5

Thanks for that code. It is working great. Thanks again!!!

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