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Sorry it doesn't have to be CDONTS, I just need the cookie to send an
email!!

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"Ben" <ben@iow-office.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ahmnhu$cg$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hi Guys,
>
> Can anyone help! I am trying to put together a basic cookie in JavaScript.
> The cookie part of the script it working perfectly, no problems there.
> However after the cookie has been executed I want the script to send an
> email using CDONTS. This is where I am having problems.
>
> I only want the email to be sent if the cookie is executed ie if it
exists.
> Currently nothing is working, if I take out the email side of the script
the
> cookie works, but I need both running.
>
> Any ideas where I am going wrong?
>
> <script>
> <!--
>
>
> // page to go to if cookie exists
> go_to = "software.htm";
>
> // number of days cookie lives for
> num_days = 1;
> function ged(noDays){
>     var today = new Date();
>     var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
>     return  expr.toGMTString();
> }
>
> function readCookie(cookieName){
>     var start = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName);
>     if (start == -1){
>         document.cookie = "seenit=yes; expires=" + ged(num_days);
>     } else {
>         window.location = go_to;
>     }
> }
>
> readCookie("seenit");
>
> // now send the email using CDONTS
>
> Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
> sendmailMsg.From = email@email.com
> sendmailMsg.To = user@user.com
> sendmailMsg.subject = "Subject"
> sendmailMsg.body = "Body"
> sendmailMsg.send
>
> // -->
> </script>
>
>
> Hope you can help!
>
> Cheers
>
> Ben
>
>

Client-side JavaScript has no ability to send an E-mail.

It can attempt to navigate to a "mailto:" URL, but that won't be automated and
will require user intervention to send (assuming it works at all, some users
don't have an E-mail client configured to come up for "mailto:" URLs).

Read the cookie from the server, send the E-mail from there.

Ben wrote:

> Sorry it doesn't have to be CDONTS, I just need the cookie to send an
> email!!
>
> --
> I'm a socialist saving up to become a capitalist.
>
> http://fly.to/bendyer
>
> "Ben" <ben@iow-office.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ahmnhu$cg$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Can anyone help! I am trying to put together a basic cookie in JavaScript.
> > The cookie part of the script it working perfectly, no problems there.
> > However after the cookie has been executed I want the script to send an
> > email using CDONTS. This is where I am having problems.
> >
> > I only want the email to be sent if the cookie is executed ie if it
> exists.
> > Currently nothing is working, if I take out the email side of the script
> the
> > cookie works, but I need both running.
> >
> > Any ideas where I am going wrong?
> >
> > <script>
> > <!--
> >
> >
> > // page to go to if cookie exists
> > go_to = "software.htm";
> >
> > // number of days cookie lives for
> > num_days = 1;
> > function ged(noDays){
> >     var today = new Date();
> >     var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
> >     return  expr.toGMTString();
> > }
> >
> > function readCookie(cookieName){
> >     var start = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName);
> >     if (start == -1){
> >         document.cookie = "seenit=yes; expires=" + ged(num_days);
> >     } else {
> >         window.location = go_to;
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > readCookie("seenit");
> >
> > // now send the email using CDONTS
> >
> > Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
> > sendmailMsg.From = email@email.com
> > sendmailMsg.To = user@user.com
> > sendmailMsg.subject = "Subject"
> > sendmailMsg.body = "Body"
> > sendmailMsg.send
> >
> > // -->
> > </script>
> >
> >
> > Hope you can help!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Ben

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* Client-side Javascript and Netscape DOM Reference available at:
* http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/javascript.html
* Internet Explorer DOM Reference available at:
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtmlrefs.asp
* Tips for upgrading JavaScript for Netscape 6/Mozilla
* http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html

Ben wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Can anyone help! I am trying to put together a basic cookie in JavaScript.
> The cookie part of the script it working perfectly, no problems there.
> However after the cookie has been executed I want the script to send an
> email using CDONTS. This is where I am having problems.
> 
> I only want the email to be sent if the cookie is executed ie if it exists.
> Currently nothing is working, if I take out the email side of the script the
> cookie works, but I need both running.
> 
> Any ideas where I am going wrong?
> 


Yeah, using server side commands like Server.CreateObject with a 
client-side script.
If you have CDONTS, you have ASP. Use that. Server-side VBScript or 
JScript is much better for mail than a client-side language that 
requires someone have an e-mail client installed and associated with 
their browser.


Try the following, tested in IIS/Win2K/IE6 successfully (modify the from and to addresses appropriately).

HTH
kaeli

<%@ LANGUAGE="JSCRIPT"%>
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>test </title>
</head>
<body>

<%
//page to go to if cookie exists
go_to = "software.htm";

//number of days cookie lives for
num_days = 1;
function ged(noDays){
     var today = new Date();
     var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
     return  expr.toGMTString();
}

function readCookie(cookieName){
     var start = Request.Cookies(cookieName);
     if (start == ""){
         Response.Cookies("seenit")="yes; expires=" + ged(num_days);
     } else {
         Response.Redirect(go_to);
     }
}

readCookie("seenit");

// now send the email using CDONTS

var sendmailMsg = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail");
sendmailMsg.From = "email@email.com";
sendmailMsg.To = "mail@mail.com";
sendmailMsg.subject = "Subject";
sendmailMsg.body = "Body";
sendmailMsg.send();
%>
</body>
</html>

JRS:  In article <3D3FFC49.5060804@NOSPAMatt.net>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, kaeli <infinite.possibilitiesNOSPAM@NOSPAMatt
.net> posted at Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:25:29 :-

>function ged(noDays){
>     var today = new Date();
>     var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
>     return  expr.toGMTString();
>}

function ged(noDays){
     with (new Date()) { setDate(getDate()+noDays)
       return toGMTString() }
}

is shorter and, in terms of civil days, more accurate.
 
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