voting in outlook 2003

[ben3003]

Hi All,
I am tring to get my web page on the click of a button to generate a
mail from a person to a manager of a department, with voting buttons,
so that when the manager approves the request the relevant information
gets passed to HR. Is this possible in PHP? i understand the use of
mail() and so a message could be drawn up, however th inclusion of
votin buttons is the tricky bit!
any help is greatly recieved.
Thanks
Ben

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: voting in outlook 2003

Hello,

on 02/07/2005 07:12 PM ben3003 said the following:[color=blue]
> Hi All,
> I am tring to get my web page on the click of a button to generate a
> mail from a person to a manager of a department, with voting buttons,
> so that when the manager approves the request the relevant information
> gets passed to HR. Is this possible in PHP? i understand the use of
> mail() and so a message could be drawn up, however th inclusion of
> votin buttons is the tricky bit!
> any help is greatly recieved.[/color]

You can just send an HTML message with a form for voting. The action URL
of the form should point to a page to process the form. You may want to
try this class for composing and sending HTML messages properly, so they
do not get trapped in spam filters.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: voting in outlook 2003

I noticed that Message-ID: <4207EB94.70900 00@acm.org> from Manuel Lemos
contained the following:
[color=blue]
>You can just send an HTML message with a form for voting. The action URL
>of the form should point to a page to process the form.[/color]

Of course this assumes the use of mail software that accepts HTML
emails. A more universal solution my be to use a series of hyperlinks
to register the votes.

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[Manuel Lemos]

Re: voting in outlook 2003

Hello,

on 02/07/2005 10:06 PM Geoff Berrow said the following:[color=blue]
> I noticed that Message-ID: <4207EB94.70900 00@acm.org> from Manuel Lemos
> contained the following:
>[color=green]
>>You can just send an HTML message with a form for voting. The action URL
>>of the form should point to a page to process the form.[/color]
>
> Of course this assumes the use of mail software that accepts HTML
> emails. A more universal solution my be to use a series of hyperlinks
> to register the votes.[/color]

These days almost all mail programs support displaying HTML messages,
even those that run on text terminals like pine.

What must avoid is using Javascript in HTML or else your messages will
be filtered by most modern spam filters.

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Manuel Lemos

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[Kelvin Mackay]

Re: voting in outlook 2003

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:15:54 -0200, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org > wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> on 02/07/2005 10:06 PM Geoff Berrow said the following:[color=green]
>> I noticed that Message-ID: <4207EB94.70900 00@acm.org> from Manuel Lemos
>> contained the following:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> You can just send an HTML message with a form for voting. The action
>>> URL of the form should point to a page to process the form.[/color]
>> Of course this assumes the use of mail software that accepts HTML
>> emails. A more universal solution my be to use a series of hyperlinks
>> to register the votes.[/color]
>
> These days almost all mail programs support displaying HTML messages,
> even those that run on text terminals like pine.
>
> What must avoid is using Javascript in HTML or else your messages will
> be filtered by most modern spam filters.
>[/color]

I've come across quite a few cheap-and-not-so-cheerful webmail interfaces
that won't display HTML in messages, which may be a concern. However the
subject specifically mentions Outlook 2003 so HTML is fine, but it's worth
remembering that there will always be someone who insists on using the
older browser and the out of date (or beta) mail client. Having said that
I agree it's fair to say that HTML support is almost universal these days.

A good solution might be to have a text only alternative to the HTML
message that only uses links, or directs the reader to a voting page.