html form within mail client

Question

Ok, get this.

I have been assigned to write an html form to be EMAILED to clients so that they can fill it in and submit it FROM THE EMAIL CLIENT! apparently emailin

Answer 1

There are only two possiblities: first one the mail client must have a php runtime environment to run the php script locally, also an embedded mail server - which isnt the case for the most of them. Second one is that your mail client acts like a browser and displays the form (which is located still on the internet) in his mail viewing window (which is perhaps possible but i dont know any common mail client doing this).

So you either submit a link to the form or you construct the mail this way, that there're placeholders to be filled and submitted like a normal mail response.