Sending (not submitting) a form to email

[marc_gfx]

The idea was to send a html form to users via email, so that they can fill in their information and submit it directly to my site. The basic implementation works, but some weird problems occur.
The form is put together and emailed using php. Some of the name="..." and value="..." fields are corrupted, mostly with blanks or '!' or are even entirely empty. I've logged the transmitted data to a file before sending the data and it's absolutely fine.
I first tested the form in outlook and quickly assumed this was just an outlook issue, but in yahoo-mail similar problems occurred. so now i guess the fault is on my side. possibly the php send-mail is causing the problems.

has anyone ever experienced similar problems and can give a hint on how to go about this problem?

[HostSentry.net]

There is no way you can reliably send an email with an important HTML form in it. All email clients remove different things from email for security purposes, most if not all will make it so your form is useless in some sense.

Best bet is linking them to a form.

[marc_gfx]

thanks. I was kind of fearing a similar answer ... but linking shouldn't prove too hard. might of been the better solution in the first place anyway.

[Taltos]

marc, linking is probably much better as it is much less likely to get your email thrown in the junk folder as spam. HTML emails can be really tough to get past many spam filters.