Submit form by email

Hi!
I try to submit PDF form by email using this Javascript code:
Doc.submitForm({cURL: "mailto:[email protected]", cSubmitAs:"XML"});
It does nothing.
I tried to use "this." instead of "Doc.", use "PDF" instead of "XML", I think I tried almost anyhting and still unable make it work. I use Android OS, have e-mail client up and running, write new message works from another application well.
Have someone email submit button working, please?
--- Jaroslav

Hi John,
I am thinking like , when user click a button to send this form, make the second page as hidden. Design the form in such a way that it has 2 sub forms. The first form will contain the data that should be send and the second sub form contains data that should not send. Inside the button click write code to make the second sub form hidden.
regards
Shaira.

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Submit Button for Email Form

I have searched the forum (my apologies if I missed the
correct solution) and have done my fair share of Googling on this
topic to no avail.
Is there a "simple" solution to setting up a submit button to
send a form to email.
I have the action of the form as mailto:myemailaddress.com
Method set to "Get"
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a warning indicating the senders email address will be divulged. I
click OK and a new window popsup for my yahoo sign in. I suppose
this would happen as the default email interface used. However, the
form isn't sent.
Any solutions would be very helpful. Thanks
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This is posted here 2-5 times a week -
There are only two ways to process form data -
1. Use mailto:[email protected] as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the
form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c)
formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d)
redirect the visitor
to some ending page
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installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed
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responding to
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send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.
Method 2a is the preferred method, since it eliminates the
problems of
method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with
server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
Method 2b would be to use some third-party form processing,
like
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/,
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you could investigate
http://www.geekministry.com/formbuilder/,
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product by a frequent poster here.
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your needs,
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form
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carefully.
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Adobe Community Expert
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"DBistrow" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I have searched the forum (my apologies if I missed the
correct solution)
>and
> have done my fair share of Googling on this topic to no
avail.
>
> Is there a "simple" solution to setting up a submit
button to send a form
> to
> email.
>
> I have the action of the form as
mailto:myemailaddress.com
>
> Method set to "Get"
>
> Enctype set to "text/plain"
>
> When I test to submit button it provides a popup window
with a warning
> indicating the senders email address will be divulged. I
click OK and a
> new
> window popsup for my yahoo sign in. I suppose this would
happen as the
> default
> email interface used. However, the form isn't sent.
>
> Any solutions would be very helpful. Thanks
>
> P.S. I use DW 8
>

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