[Closed] Ideas for Error Handling

f97ao,
sending data via POST is done by the browser not by PHP.
PHP recieves the data.
So can build a local html file display it in the browser and have the data send via POST to a url on your server.

edit: I don’t think there is a 1024 limit with POST, GET has a limit for sure …
But there are ways to upload MB images with POST.

Georg

I have some more ideas:
the first – and very simple – one is to use an mailto-link with a hyperlink component in maxscript, so the user will send the error report with his own email client. The mailto-syntax is explained here: http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/mailto.htm

I think that there are less than 1k characters provided if you use the mailto-link but it’s made very easy. Another idea is to generate a HTML code within maxscript that includes code for a POST form with your email and you error message and a button that let the user send you the message, e.g.:

 <form method="post" action="www.yourdomain.com/errormsg.php">
   <textarea name="ErrorMsg">
 	 YOUR ERROR MESSAGE HERE (> 1024 Characters!)
   </textarea>
 </form>
 

You could display that HTML page using the InternetExplorer ActiveX Component which is availlable on almost every Windows PC. MaxScript does support ActiveX components, so maybe this idea could work…

Chris

Hi Andreas,

JavaScript can do this. You could insert an JavaScript command at the end of the HTML page (to be sure, the page has successfully loaded):

<script labguage=“JavaScript”>
<!–
document.forms[0].submit();
–>
</script>

Hope, this helps,
Christian