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**xenia** · 07-10-2006, 07:32 AM

Hello everyone,

I have created a web page where the user send an email to his friend with a message and a url of a website. I am using the mail function in order to send the email. I have creaed also a template for the email that the friend will receive.
I am using html code in order to create the email. In the template of the email I am using also a javascript as I want the friend to open the url in a pop up window. The problem is that the javascript doesn't work.Can I use javascript in the email template?Here is my code

PHP Code:


			
$body = "<html>
<head>
<title>A wish send to you by $name</title>
<script type='text/javascript'>

var popUpWin=0;

function popUpWindow(URLStr, left, top, width, height)

{

  if(popUpWin)

  {

    if(!popUpWin.closed) popUpWin.close();

  }

  popUpWin = open(URLStr, 'popUpWin', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,copyhistory=yes,width='+width+',height='+height+',left='+left+', top='+top+',screenX='+left+',screenY='+top+'');

}



</script>
</head>
<body>
  <table width='752' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>
    <tr>
      <td><img src=$image></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>This e-mail is from $sendername at $sendermail about a nice jewellery they've found. You can see it at the link <a href='#' onClick='popUpWindow('http://mysite.com/item_details_friend.php?itemID=$frienditem', '150', '100', '780', '560');'>$siteaddress</a> . This is the message $sendername sent. $message</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>";

$thesubject = "A nice jewellery from $sendername";
$headers = "From: $sendermail\n";               // From
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; // Mime type
$to="$receivermail";


mail($to,$thesubject,$body,$headers);

echo "Your e-mail was sent successfully.";
}

Thank you,
Xenia

**Christopher** · 07-10-2006, 10:54 PM

No, JS will probably not work in most email clients. HTML email is a very tricky thing to get down. SitePoint has a good article on HTML emails: How to Code HTML Email Newsletters.

**xenia** · 07-11-2006, 04:22 AM

Oh i see so there is no way that i can use javascript?
The problem is that i want to use javascript because i want the link that the custoemr will receive to open in a pop up window because the basic webiste is in a pop up window.

Do you know if there is any other solution?

Thanks,
Xenia

**Christopher** · 07-11-2006, 02:01 PM

There may be some clients that will run your JS, but the vast majority will not. I can only suggest making a new page on the site that is meant specifically for incoming visitors via Email, which then opens up the page. So link to mysite.com/emailusers.html and have that page open the popup.

**xenia** · 07-12-2006, 05:06 AM

Thank you Chroder for your suggestion.

The problem i have is that the user will receive a url that his friend send including a specific itemId for a particular product,so the url will be like that:
http://mysite.com/item_details_friend.php?itemID=20 .

If the user click on this link I would like the page to open in a pop up window.

What I manage to do untill now is in the page http://mysite.com/item_details_friend.php?itemID=20 to put an action when the page loads to open the page in a pop up window.The problem I get is that the page ones in a pop up window however it always reloads the page.

Here is the code for the javescript i created:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
  function pop_window() {
  
    window.open('http://mysite.com/item_details_friend.php?itemID=20', 'popup', 'width=600, height=600, top=100, left=100, menubar=0, scrollbars=0, location=0, toolbar=0,  resizable=0, status=0');
    
  }
</script>

and in the body of the code:

HTML Code:

<body onLoad="pop_window();">

What you think?

thanks