asp linking

[colinod]

i have a website www.yaketyyak.co.uk that lists various mp3 file for various people, i want to be able to add a selection of any mp3s to a list and view them on a page a bit like a shopping cart and then email the page to someone, does anyone have any pinters for me....
thanks

[jhardman]

Which part is giving you a problem? Because I admit that sending an email through ASP has always been a big headache for me.

Most shopping carts use a cookie or a session variable in order to keep the list until the action (place order or whatever) is done. Have you ever used session variables or cookies?

Jared

[colinod]

Hi I have never uses sesion variables or cookies, all i want to do is send a link to an email address that will return a page that conatain a list of the selected mp3 files......

[jhardman]

So once again, which part is giving you trouble? I see three problems here:

• forming a list of selected files
• sending an email
• pulling up the right list after the user clicks a link he received via email

for the first step, you could use session variables like this:

<!--form page-->
<input type="checkbox" name="1121">O Tannenbaum (song 1121)
<input type="checkbox" name="1122">Frosty the Snowman (song 1122)
<input type="checkbox" name="1123">Jingle Bells (song 1123)
 
'form handler which sends the email
for each x in request.form
   if request(x) = "on" then
      session("selectedSongs") = session("selectedSongs") & x & ","
   end if
next
 
'send mail with your normal method, making sure to use an HTMLBody rather than a TextBody which doesn't support hyperlinks.
mail.HTMLBody = "<a href=" & chr(34) & "http://www.mySite.com/selectedSongs?mySelection=" & session("selectedSongs") & chr(34) & ">Click here for your selection</a>"
'etc

Is this the part you had a question about?

Jared

[colinod]

Sorry i am having real problems with this, i want to put a button next to each mp3 listed on the site that adds this mp3 to a shopping cart type thing that i can then view on a page and email to people, i am just not good enough with ASP to do this, i can supply a page if some one wants to have a try for me, i know its a bit cheeky!!!!!