Im new @ forms!!!! "NEED HELP!"

[Jerrad]

Hi I am Jerrad,


I am new to forms & I was just wandering if I have a "Submit button" Excactly how would I make it e-mail me!???????


Hope someone could help me.

Thanks!

[oddball7]

Here is something you may read and it may help you out: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm


It suggests not using the html form mailto action which is how you would get a submit button to mail a message to you. It provides another way of doing emails that is more effective.

But if you still want to do it with the mailto action rather than the way they suggest at the above website then go here: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap17.shtml

and scroll down to the "the Mailto form" section and it will tell you everything you should need to know.


I'm sorry for all of the website links rather than just giving you a code but I figure that the information they provide to you will be more helpful and more descriptive than me trying to explain it to you.

Hope it helps.

[Stephen Philbin]

There's also loads of helpful info at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ and in the html section of these forums. ;)

[Jerrad]

Ok thank you I will have to check these links out tinight but I just wanted to say thanks for the help!!!!! :D

[Jerrad]

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm

The link above is kind of confusing could someone kind of translate that a lil bit!!!!!! what is "CGI" is and tht might be able to help me a lil bit!!!

Well I hope that someone could help once again!!!!!

Thanks,
Jerrad

[NogDog]

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is a standard which defines methods for software on the web host to interact with data sent from the user's web browser, or to send data back to it.

Basically what the article is saying is that it's better to use a CGI program that resides on the web host and handles the data from your web form, as opposed to using the "mailto:" action for your form tag. Instead, you use the address of your form handler program as the action, such as:

<form action="http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi" method="post">

What you might want to do is check with your web host provider to see if they have a generic formmail program already available on your site. If so, they should be able to give you instructions as to the exact address that should go in the "action=" attribute of your form tag, plus any other special configuration you may need to make it work. (Often you need to add a hidden field to your form with the email address to which you want the form data to be sent.)

[Jerrad]

Man I still cant get it to e-mail me!

Here is the link to the form I am trying to make e-mail me I hope this will help some1 help me!

Thanks!
Jerrad!