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boroarke
05-15-2003, 08:10 PM
Could someone help me or direct me to a place where I can learn how to create question and email forms. I like the websites that when you click on a "Contact Us" link, a new page opens and instead of their email client opening, there is a form on the page where they enter in their name, email address and questions and then click on submit. Is there certian software that I need to have installed on my website to do something like that? Thanks in advance for all your help.
havik
05-15-2003, 08:13 PM
What you'd want to do is create an HTML form and have a cgi script to take the form and send it to your email address.

Here's a link to HTML forms:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

and here's a link to cgi scripts:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Form_Processing/

I'd recommend the cgi program FormMail, its widely used.

Havik

EDITED: Pyro is correct in the post below, there are many ways of accomplishing this task and I offer only one solution here. :D
pyro
05-15-2003, 08:13 PM
Ok, a couple things. Do you know how to make the HTML aspect of your form? If not that picking up a book on HTML would be helpful. If you know how to do that, you will want to send this form back to you using some server side programming. Do you know what your server supports? PHP? CGI/Perl? ASP? You will need to find that out, and then someone will be able to direct you to a script that can do it for you.
pyro
05-15-2003, 08:19 PM
Originally posted by havik
I'd recommend the cgi program FormMail, its widely used.And very widly used by spammers. I would not recommend that one. Better to find a script that isn't such a security threat... It was named number 3 for the top 10 attacks for the 1st quarter of 2002. ( http://www.securityfocus.com/corporate/research/top10attacks_q1_2002.shtml )
havik
05-15-2003, 08:21 PM
whoa! I'll just take that link and bookmark it, thank you very much :D

Havik
pyro
05-15-2003, 08:23 PM
You bet... It actually happened to me once. My account was suspended for about a day because of it, and I've never even though about using FormMail again... ;)
boroarke
05-15-2003, 10:47 PM
I know how to create forms. My site can handle php, CGI/Perl. What are some good scripts that will be compatable?
Thanks!
pyro
05-15-2003, 10:52 PM
You can use the one that I wrote, if you'd like...It is PHP.