convertchars and e-mail

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1998

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texte = I'm going bonkers trying to get this to work the way I expect... hopefully it's something simple I'm just not getting.I've got a few template pages that I'm using as an entry screen for an e-mail service we provide, that archives (using WebCat) into a database for searching through our web site.The problem is that while I can get everything to work just great for display on the web, when I try to push the data through SENDMAIL, things like quote marks (), ampersands (&) and such get converted into HTML entities, and/or truncate the field.template 1 - admin entry----------------------------has HTML like this:submitting the page gets to template 2...template 2 - safety net----------------------------grabs the fields from the previous form, and appends them into the database, like the following (I removed many of the fields to make it easier to read)...[append db=newsflash.db]Summary=[Summary][/append]I then do a SEARCH in the database to make sure it worked, re-populate a form with hidden fields with the values I already submitted, and display what the real ARCHIVE DISPLAY will look like for our clients.There's a DELETE button to remove this posting from the database, in case something bizarre happened during the submission.Another button SUBMITS the information template 3.template 3 - liststar blast----------------------------Takes the fields from the safety net template, and stuffs them into a SENDMAIL context to our ListStar server and blasts the message to roughly 3000 people.the code looks like this:[Search db=newsflash.db&eqNewsflash_IDdata=[newID]&Newsflash_IDsort=1&Newsflash_IDsdir=de&max=1][founditems][include file=newsflash.inc][/founditems][/search]the include file looks like:[SENDMAIL to=listserver&from=listposter&subject=[Short_Subject]][Long_Subject]Summary:[input][Summary][/input][showif [Opinion]>]Delphi Opinion:[input][Opinion][/input][/showif][showif [Details]>]Details:[input][Details][/input][/showif][showif [Additional_Information]>]Additional Information:[input][Additional_Information][/input][/showif][/SENDMAIL]-----I've tried the SENDMAIL bit with and without the [input][/input] as well as using the standard [convertchars][/convertchars] and nothing works as I am hoping it would.What do I need to do to get web AND e-mail friendly text out of this?Dan Keldsen - djk@delphigroup.comDirector, I.S. - webmaster@delphigroup.comThe Delphi Group - http://www.delphigroup.com/100 City Hall Plaza - ph: 617-247-1511Boston, MA 02108-2106 - fax:617-247-4957 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: convertchars and e-mail (Kenneth Grome 1998)
convertchars and e-mail (Dan Keldsen 1998)

I'm going bonkers trying to get this to work the way I expect... hopefully it's something simple I'm just not getting.I've got a few template pages that I'm using as an entry screen for an e-mail service we provide, that archives (using WebCat) into a database for searching through our web site.The problem is that while I can get everything to work just great for display on the web, when I try to push the data through SENDMAIL, things like quote marks (), ampersands (&) and such get converted into HTML entities, and/or truncate the field.template 1 - admin entry----------------------------has HTML like this:submitting the page gets to template 2...template 2 - safety net----------------------------grabs the fields from the previous form, and appends them into the database, like the following (I removed many of the fields to make it easier to read)...[append db=newsflash.db]Summary=[Summary][/append]I then do a SEARCH in the database to make sure it worked, re-populate a form with hidden fields with the values I already submitted, and display what the real ARCHIVE DISPLAY will look like for our clients.There's a DELETE button to remove this posting from the database, in case something bizarre happened during the submission.Another button SUBMITS the information template 3.template 3 - liststar blast----------------------------Takes the fields from the safety net template, and stuffs them into a SENDMAIL context to our ListStar server and blasts the message to roughly 3000 people.the code looks like this:[Search db=newsflash.db&eqNewsflash_IDdata=[newID]&Newsflash_IDsort=1&Newsflash_IDsdir=de&max=1][founditems][include file=newsflash.inc][/founditems][/search]the include file looks like:[SENDMAIL to=listserver&from=listposter&subject=[Short_Subject]][Long_Subject]Summary:[input][Summary][/input][showif [Opinion]>]Delphi Opinion:[input][Opinion][/input][/showif][showif [Details]>]Details:[input][Details][/input][/showif][showif [Additional_Information]>]Additional Information:[input][Additional_Information][/input][/showif][/SENDMAIL]-----I've tried the SENDMAIL bit with and without the [input][/input] as well as using the standard [convertchars][/convertchars] and nothing works as I am hoping it would.What do I need to do to get web AND e-mail friendly text out of this?Dan Keldsen - djk@delphigroup.comDirector, I.S. - webmaster@delphigroup.comThe Delphi Group - http://www.delphigroup.com/100 City Hall Plaza - ph: 617-247-1511Boston, MA 02108-2106 - fax:617-247-4957 Dan Keldsen

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convertchars and e-mail

1998

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