Does this not work...

<a href=contactus.php?email=director&subject=job enquiry>



On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:11, CJ wrote:
> I have a "contact us" php script on my site that allows users to email
> direct from the webiste.  I want to be able to pass the to address and
> subject line to the script so I can call teh web page from elsewhere on the
> site and have it automatically choose the correct email address and subject
> line.
> 
> EG instad of using <a href=mailto:joe@;bloggs.mail.com> which requires them
> to have an email client set up on the machine I want to link to
> <a href=contactus.php?email=director subject=job enquiry>
> The script already handles the email=director by setting a default entry in
> a drop down form but I can't get it to separate the first and second
> variables in the URL.
> 
> Also is this a big security risk as I will be echoing the 2nd variable as
> the contents of a form field.  Would it be possible for someone to type in
> the URL with HTML/php in it that would make a mess of everything?  How can I
> protect against this?  Would it be sufficient to just pase the 2nd variable
> for non alphabetic characters and remove them?
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