Forms

Eddie · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 3 Location: France

When you have made an form with textbox an that, and you click on "send form". Can someone give me the html to make it so that the form is e-mailed to me?

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

Once you gather the information on your HMTL form the send button passes it to a program in your cgi-bin folder written in perl, php or C for processing. Once processed, each of these languages has methods to generate email.

More info found at -

http://www.php.net/manual/en/
http://learn.perl.org/

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

Have a look at some script sites that allow you to download "canned" cgi programs that you simply configure to your needs and upload to your cgi-bin folder.

for example here is one of many -

http://www.scriptarchive.com/

gms · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 3 Location: UAlbany, NY

Another option...
Sample "Mailto" form without using scripts -
copy code to notepad
put your email address in form action="mailto:..."
save file as filename.html

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

I haven't seen that one before!

I just fired it on my localhost and tried it, works just fine although the Windows warning about sending unsecure emails might spook a few people.

None the less, the code does what it is supposed to do.

benj · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 10

i'm using frontpage for forms and when i upload it to tripod it doesn't work. need help dudes ...

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

Sorry, I have never tries FrontPage - can't help you here!

Maybe I should go try it and see if the forms work for me. I will get back to you

gms · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 3 Location: UAlbany, NY

Without seeing your code, it is hard to tell what is going wrong.
A couple of years ago, I was webmaster for a large site that was created using FrontPage2002 (not my choice), so here is a shot in the dark...

How are your form properties set?

Right click in the form and choose Form properties

Click on Send to other, leave the drop-down as Custom ISAPI, NSAPI, CGI, or ASP Script

Click on Options, and type in the following:

Action: mailto:youremailaddress
Method: POST
Encoding type: text/plain

It's important to set the encoding type to "text/plain" otherwise you'll get some very strange results.

Remember that mailto forms are dependant upon your user's Web browser, email client, and operating system. They don't always work.

data · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 11 Location: California

hi. can someone please check this and if you can fix the errors. im am only 15 and i cant get the reset button to work and the pay thing to work. heres my html

<html>
<head>

<p align="left"><font size="6"><b> Mailto: Form Without Scripts</b></font></p>
<hr width=50% align="left">
<form method="post" enctype="text/plain" action="somethingatyahoo.com"

<tr>
<td width="50%">Name
<input type="text" name="name" value="">
<td width="50%">Last Name
<input type="text" name="name" value="">
</td>
<td width="50%">E-mail
<input type="text" name="email">
</td>
</tr>

<p>Select a Card Type
<select>

<option value="Visa">Visa

<option value="MasterCard">MasterCard</select>

<p>Card Number <input type="text" name="CARDNUM" size="16" maxlength="16">

<p>Expiration Date <input type="text" name="EXPDATE" size="4" maxlength="4">

<p align=left><br>
<p><input type="submit" "hidden" name="ACTION" value="PAY">
</form>

<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset">

</body>
<html>

thankyou for your help

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

Move your input tag for the reset button inside the form tags.

data · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 11 Location: California

thankyou mjpliv it worked.

can someone tell me where I put this code or if theres another code that i could put so when they press pay i can recive the information they put

<p align="left"><font size="6"><b> Mailto: Form Without Scripts</b></font></p>
<hr width=50% align="left">
<form method="post" enctype="text/plain" action="mailto:gmsatalbany.edu" name="trythis_form">

thanks for the help

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

Before I answer these questions can you give me your URL for the website for a product you are selling or plan to sell? As well, could you complete the contact information in your profile for this forum?

Basically all I see is a request for information on how to collect credit card information from people using a website.
I would feel more comfortable supplying information to you if I knew a little bit more about your "enterprise".

data · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 11 Location: California

well the site is not up yet because im trying to write the html code first so i can write it.i have no URL yet and i have no index page. first im trying to write the purhacing area to see if i can do it.i will fell all info like you wanted it. oh and the type of prodict is going to be sold is like tv wiers like s-video, coaxial cable, etc..

Corey Bryant · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:05 pm

data · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 11 Location: California