[cfaussie] Re: Email and XML or other?

[Tim Lucas]

Getting the users to use a web based form to enter their new information would be better than getting them to send you an email direct. If you can get the link you send them to have their old details as URL variables and use qForms for some quick'n'dirty jscript validation, then at least you can use the web based form to get the emails in a structured format (XML if you like) and process them at a later date when you have written the scripts to do so (or use data entry).... Or you could just serialise the form struct and save it as a WDDX packet on the server with filename of "contactdetails_{timestamp}.xml" Much better than them just sending you an email... and it would probably take about an hour to set up... - tim Taco Fleur spoke the following wise words on 27/10/2003 12:04 PM EST: Wow second question today! I have about one day to implement a system where all customers are contacted via email, this email contains all their details we have on file for them, the purpose of this is so that they can let us know if the details we have on file are correct or incorrect. I wanted to automate the process by creating a form they can access to correct their details if not correct, but time does not allow this. The client has to reply to the email itself and include the correct details, these emails will be hand processed then. To me it looks like it could be done better and more efficient, but the question is - how to do all this in one day? Does anyone reckon it can be done in one day when mixing XML into it? That's creating the code to parse the email and create the email... --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/