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Posted 08 May 2007 01:42:22
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08 May 2007 01:42:22 Christie Applegate posted:
I have a page which pulls down all of our employees. I get how to link to the details page but I would like the email addresses to be able to link to email and populate their email address. How would I do this?Christie
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Replied 09 May 2007 04:31:49
09 May 2007 04:31:49 Alan C replied:
One way . . .
a normal mailto link would look something like
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto: ">send me an email</a> </font id=code></pre id=code>
so you could use something like
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:<?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?> ">send me an email</a></font id=code></pre id=code>
and if you wanted the link text to show the email address as well
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:<?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?> "><?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?></a></font id=code></pre id=code>
I'm not sure how you would get DW to do that for you, I think you would be able to do it by using the insert dynamic field, in a lot of cases I find it's quicker to build the page framework in DW letting it do all the hard work of setting up the database access then modify the code - sometimes I get in a mess because DW can't then handle what I've done, but when I keep all your php in small bits like shown it has a much better chance <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
a normal mailto link would look something like
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto: ">send me an email</a> </font id=code></pre id=code>
so you could use something like
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:<?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?> ">send me an email</a></font id=code></pre id=code>
and if you wanted the link text to show the email address as well
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:<?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?> "><?php echo $row_rsYourRecordset['email_field_name']; ?></a></font id=code></pre id=code>
I'm not sure how you would get DW to do that for you, I think you would be able to do it by using the insert dynamic field, in a lot of cases I find it's quicker to build the page framework in DW letting it do all the hard work of setting up the database access then modify the code - sometimes I get in a mess because DW can't then handle what I've done, but when I keep all your php in small bits like shown it has a much better chance <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>