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Craig Grannell

"The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design"

If
you would like to learn more about working with PHP and Dreamweaver, see The
Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP, by David Powers; or you
can check out PHP Solutions, also by David Powers, for a very approachable non??“
Dreamweaver-specific book on PHP.
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Using e-mail to send form data
In rare cases, it may not be possible to set up a form to send form data (although even
most free web hosts tend to provide users with some kind of form functionality, even if it??™s
a shared script that doesn??™t allow a great deal of customization). If you find yourself in this
sticky situation, it??™s possible to use a mailto: URL for the form??™s action attribute value.
This causes browsers to e-mail the form parameters and values to the specified address.

?? enctype="text/plain">
This might seem a simpler method than messing around with CGI scripts, but it has major
shortfalls:
Some browsers don??™t support mailto: as a form action.
The resulting data may arrive in a barely readable (or unreadable) format, and you
have no control over this.
This method isn??™t secure.
The user won??™t be redirected and may therefore not realize data has been sent.
That last problem can be worked around by adding a JavaScript alert to the form start tag:
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