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[Demodex]

Hey ya'll.

I want to earn how to do it "practically" ( as in, CODE IT) and when I google it, all I get is tips for what info to present in the page and some "programs" that can make it for me.

I want to make it on my own, for ex.

Name: john do
Email: john.d@gmail.net
Comments: no comments

[Submit] ->clicking this will email me all the fields above with their content.

I know it shouldn't be hard, but there is probably also a server-side proccess here.

Can anyone please guide me through it?

Yours truely,

Demodex

[CommittedC0der]

<form action="MAILTO:your addresshere@gmail.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

<h3>This form sends an e-mail to whoever you want.</h3>
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name"
value="yourname" size="20">
<br>
EMail Address:<br>
<input type="text" name="mail"
value="yourmail" size="20">
<br>
Comment:<br>
<input type="text" name="comment"
value="yourcomment" size="40">
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

so do you know how to use the <form> tags if so you probably understand what that was but if not here's a link on forms.

EDIT: if you need more help ask.:)

[BlaineSch]

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

HTML & CSS would be the design part of it.
PHP would do the mailing, if you just want to mail it check out the mail() function if you don't want to use this you can use the mailto like thegamemaker suggested.

[Demodex]

Thanks guys for your quick answers!

My aim is to make it as simple as possible (btw, how can I make it so that when someone views the page source he wont see my email address?).

thegamemaker, could you give me a quick tour through your code as to where is the line that tells the page to send all the fields to the email? I see no linking between the submit and the fields in the context.

BlaineSch, would php be easier?

Although for what I know it can't get any easier than html.

[BlaineSch]

You cant hide the email, the thing thegamemaker showed you will open up your default email client to send the email with all those things already filled in. Via the "mailto" protocol. But besides that it's just a <form> with <input> tags to help fill stuff in.

[Demodex]

OK, well I want the mail sent through the web page itself.

In that case my goal is to do it via php?

[BlaineSch]

Yes, you'd simply get thegamemakers code, and change the form action to the same page, and do some php:

<?PHP
if($_POST) {
	mail('to@to.com', 'Subject', print_r($_POST, true));
}

You might do some extra validating but that's the basis of it.

[CommittedC0der]

I guess your going to use PHP. Do you still want me to show you how that HTML works?

[Demodex]

Hmm, BlaineSch- isn't there a missing ">" at your code?
According to what you say, I should take thegamemaker's original code and put it in instead of the first line in the code. Am I right?

thegamemaker, that should be nice :)

[CommittedC0der]

<form action="MAILTO:your addresshere@gmail.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

This make any thing in the form below(if submitted) go to your email.

Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name"
value="yourname" size="20">

</form>

That just makes a new input box and assigns them with values.(same for the other two)

<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
 

this makes a button that submits the information of the form above to the email address. the other is a reset button to reset the fields.
Hope that explained it, probably not so read this Page it will explain better.:)

[Demodex]

Now I get it, thanks man :)

BlaineSch,
I'll be happy to have your comment on my latest post.

[Demodex]

Now I get it, thanks man :)

BlaineSch,
I'll be happy to have your comment on my latest post.