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HTML Form Help

Started by Chewie, Aug 12 2009 04:14 PM

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#1
Chewie

Posted 12 August 2009 - 04:14 PM

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Hello I would Like to Know how to make a forms action submit the info to my email, I know it involves a CGI script but I don't know how to create one, where to put it on my server or how to link it from my form to my email, please help thank you!

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Posted 12 August 2009 - 04:41 PM

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The easiest way is to make the action mailto:your@email.com. IE:

<form action="mailto:you@email.com">....</form>

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Posted 12 August 2009 - 04:53 PM

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Jordan said:

The easiest way is to make the action mailto:your@email.com. IE:

<form action="mailto:you@email.com">....</form>

Yes, J-Man I know this method but that brings up an outlook doc, if the user has outlook up and running,I should've elaborated, I mean I would like to do it just by them clicking submit then showing them a page saying thank you for your form, blah blah blah.

you know?

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#4
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Posted 12 August 2009 - 05:51 PM

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That method doesn't bring up their default email client. You are thinking of an emailto link. The method above will email you the raw data of the form so long as you have email setup on the server properly.

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WingedPanther

Posted 12 August 2009 - 06:02 PM

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The alternative will depend on what you're using on the server. PHP handles email differently from ASP or ColdFusion.

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#6
Chewie

Posted 12 August 2009 - 06:43 PM

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Hmmmm, mailto would be easier than, right?!
If so May I get an elaboration of it, if not both methods mentioned please?
:D

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jpiche

Posted 12 August 2009 - 08:22 PM

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Isn't using

action="mailto:you@email.com"

dangerous? I would never post a critical email address directly in html--one word, spam. If you have access to PHP, you can use the

mail

function to email data.

#8
Chewie

Posted 13 August 2009 - 10:40 AM

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I do, but IDK PHP, any1 wanna help me out? =p I'm sort of in a time crunch here.

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 12:47 PM

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Speed Bump.

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#10
jpiche

Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:00 PM

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Hey, if you need immediate help, just PM me. I might be able to help you out.

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Chewie

Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:28 PM

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jpiche said:

Hey, if you need immediate help, just PM me. I might be able to help you out.

Thank you J for the help, still need some more learning though.

=+Rep-:-Ped though!

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#12
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 02:58 PM

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<?php

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';

$subject = 'the subject';

$message = 'hello';

$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .

    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();


mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

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