[thelist] RE: Multi form selections

Mr. Tenuta dtportnoy at videotron.ca
Thu Jun 17 08:09:11 CDT 2004


Heya John,

The example I used was in php not Javascript. I see what you mean thought,
the e-mails are viewable in the source the way I did it, but that was a
simple example. Like your Perl script in php you can easily set e-mail
addresses in the action script without it showing in the source code and you
could also make functions to check valid e-mail formats using the eregi()
function.

I haven't really looked into Perl alot but it looks quite similar to PHP. I
thought php was an improvement on Perl? Don't know much abuot Perl though.
Here's how an e-mail format validation function would look like in PHP:

function mailNotValid($email)
{
 if
(!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3}
)$", $email))
  return true;
 else
  return false;
}
// in this case it returns true if mail format isn't valid.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <John.Brooking at sappi.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:23 AM
Subject: [thelist] RE: Multi form selections


> > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:23:11 +1000
> > From: "7 sinz" <btcode at hotmail.com>
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] Multi form selections
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a article/tutorials on how to make a form mail
> > function that has a multiple selections , the users would selec which
> > department to send their mail to.
> >
> > Anyone know of a rticle/tutorial like that?
> >
> > Kind Regards
>
> Lawrence gave you a good example of the kind of JavaScript you would use
on
> the client end. I have gone a step further and provided an accompanying
Perl
> emailer script to use with it, to avoid having to encode email addresses
on
> the client side. You could just use the names of your departments in the
> <option> tags and not worry about spam harvesters picking up the
addresses.
> (I don't know if they do that yet outside of mailto: tags, but I figure if
> it's technically possible, it's only a matter of time.)
>
> The script and lots of explanation is at
> http://www.shoestringcms.com/personal/codelib/. My contact page on the
same
> site uses it, so you can view the source of that for the client-side
> example.
>
> John Brooking, Application Developer
> Sappi Fine Paper
> South Portland, ME, 04106 USA
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