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katlee49
05-02-2005, 08:49 PM
I am trying to set up a form to be emailed.
Is this much correct? I need a cgi mail template in ASCII (uploaded to where?)and an HTML form (uploaded to public_html directory) and a perl script to get it working? If I get the perl script written, where does it go? Into the cgi-bin directory?
TIA for any help here.
SilasMarner
05-10-2005, 12:55 PM
You may be trying to do something more complex than this, but there are existing "web-to-email" form CGI scripts that you can use without creating something customized. One of the most common is NMS-Formmail, which you can read about here:
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml
Your questions about where exactly the script should go probably need to be directed to your web host.
Hope this helps,
Chris
katlee49
05-10-2005, 02:29 PM
Thank you for your answer, Silas. That link you gave me is really complicated looking but similar to Matt's formmail at [URL=http://www.scriptarchive.com/readme/formmail.html]. I was trying to follow his format and made some progress.
I guess I have to just keep plugging away...I thought at first I didn't want to take the time to learn HTML and know find that I need to know "this thing" called PERL also.
Thanks again.