form to be sent to an email

[kpjuni]

I want a user to fill out a form and when they click submit, that form gets sent to an email address..
i've tried action="mailto:blah@blah.com" but that isn't want i'm looking to do. that opens a compose email window.

I'm wanting it to send the results of the form behind the scenes, and also send that them to a success page when the form is submitted.

I've also tried using action="mailform.php"

and here is that code.

<?php

$to = "my@emailaddres.com";
$subject = "TA Online Enrollment Submission";

while( list( $key, $value ) = each( $HTTP_POST_VARS ) ) {
    $message .= "$key: $value\n";
}

mail( $to, $subject, $message );

header( "Location: blablahblah.html" );

?>

That is the entire file.

it sends the user to the success page, but does not send the email.
Any suggestions?

[eCat]

Are you set on using PHP? Why not some simple HTML:

<form name="yourform" action="/cgi-bin/sendmail.pl" method="post">
<input type="hidden" value="yourname@domain.com" name="recipient">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.your.domain/thank_you.html" />
....
</form>

Of course, you'd need to use the correct path to your server's sendmail script.

eCat

[kpjuni]

not set on php. didn't think about perl. i'll try it out.

[kpjuni]

This server has cgi - it has sendmail, but it is not a *.pl
there is a script on the server that the last webmaster put in, but it is very complicated and doesn't work. do you have a simple sendmail script i could use?

[savvykms]

I doubt this is the best solution or even a solution to "behind the scenes", but it is an old method i know of (not many people seem to know of it). Just throwing it out there.

<form method="post" action="mailto:user@domain.tld" enctype="text/plain"> 
<input type="text" name="username">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

The thing to worry about with this old method, is that it will require the user/client to have a way for the broswer to send email. Internet explorer work use the default email client i think. It may not be compatible etc.

Another method is using POST method to a PHP, ASP, etc script or a CGI script/program. This method could use the sendmail program on a *nix box and send to a given email address. This is the most broswer compatible method, but you may need a lot of validation. There are tons of examples out there.