Question

I have a div in which it’s contents are generated by JavaScript. I was wondering if it is possible to email the contents of the div? Also is it possible in JavaScript or must it be done in PHP?

Answer 1

You can’t email directly from JavaScript in the browser. You need to send the information to a server side (eg. PHP) file.

You can do this using a form, but then you need a form field.

If it’s a div, you should use JavaScript. You can send a request (using AJAX), or, if the information is short and non-sensitive, you can navigate to the PHP page that does the email sending and add the information to the URL string.

Here is a very quick mock-up of the code. In reality, you should filter inputs and write clean code and whatnot.

Javascript:

window.location.href= "http://www.myDomain.com/email.php?data=" + theData ;

where http://www.myDomain.com/email.php is the url of the php file and theData is a variable containing the content of the div.

PHP

<?php
  mail("[e-mail]", "Content of div", $_GET['data']);  // arguments are: to, subject, body
?>

$_GET[‘data’] is the content sent by the JavaScript above.

I have not included the JavaScript to get the div content into the variable theData