How to create an email popup when email address is clicked?

Question

I want to create an email pop up window when an email address is clicked. Right now I have an email address click-able with a HTML link <a>. I know HTML has a mailto element but I do NOT want to launch the user's email program to email. I would like to email directly from the form. I have seen some PHP examples such as a "contact us" form where a business's (receiver) address is predefined in a PHP file. But I want to be able to email to the email address that is clicked on. So I need to be able to dynamically change receiver email address to the email address that is clicked on.

Any advice for these problems?

I'm not to familiar with PHP or JavaScript but I'm thinking this is possible.

Thanks

possible duplicate of [How do I send email with JavaScript without opening the mail client?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14268796/how-do-i-send-email-with-javascript-without-opening-the-mail-client) — Pointy, Apr 28 '13 at 13:57
If you are not familiar with PHP or JavaScript you have a long way to go. PHP can "send email" but the only way JavaScript would be involved is if it was an AJAX request to the web server's PHP script. — SomeShinyObject, Apr 28 '13 at 13:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '16 at 18:23

make the mail adress clickable:

<a target="popup" onclick="window.open('', 'popup', 'width=580,height=360,scrollbars=no, toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,top=10,left=10')" href="sendMail.php?mail=foo@example.com">foo@example.com</a>

Thats it for the site the user comes from.

The "sendMail.php" looks like this:

<?php
if(isset($_GET["mail"] ,$_POST["subject"] ,$_POST["message"] ,$_POST["headers"])) {
    // to:
    $mail = $_GET["mail"];
    // subejct:
    $subject = $_POST["subject"];
    // message:
    $message = $_POST["message"];
    // headers ("From:".$from):
    $headers = $_POST["headers"];
    // sendMail
    mail($mail, $subject, $message, $headers);
} elseif(isset($_GET["mail"])) {
    $mail = $_GET["mail"];
    echo '
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Mail to <?php echo $mail; ?></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="sendMail.php" method="post">
            // All inputs w/ names
        </form>
    </body>
</html>';
} else {
    echo "Error";
} ?>

thanks. new to this so I had a question. The $_GET will be looking for the element value with name "mail"...right? Correct me if I am wrong. So wouldn't I need to give an id/name of "mail" to the from the html page. — user1899872, Apr 28 '13 at 15:39

How to create an email popup when email address is clicked?

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