Submitting form content to an email plus a 'thank you' page

[Atrisa Milani]

Actually I am not even sure if this kind of form handling is even allowed, but here is what I want to do.

I have the following HTML form and piece of javascript code to submit the form to my email and show a 'thank you' page after submitting.

<form id="form" method="post" name="form" onsubmit="submitForm();">
<input name="to" type="hidden" value="user@domain.com" /> 
<input name="feedback" type="hidden" value="thanks.htm" />
<table>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>
  <label for="first_name">First Name</label>
 </td>
 <td>
  <input  type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="30">
 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
 <td>
  <label for="last_name">Last Name</label>
 </td>
 <td>
  <input  type="text" name="last_name" maxlength="50" size="30">
 </td>
</tr>
</table>

<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function(){

    function submitForm() { 
    	
    	emailForm("form"); 
    	
    } 
    
    function emailForm(myForm) {
		myForm.submit();
	} 
    
  });

But when the submit button is clicked, nothign happens. I appreciate if anyone could tell me what the problem is.

Thanks in advance,
Atrisa

[Anthony`]

Add in the action attribute to the form tag specifying the thank you page.

[Atrisa Milani]

If you mean like this:

<form id="form" action="thanks.htm" method="post" name="form" onsubmit="submitForm();">

I have done this; It goes to the thanks page now, but doesn't deliver the form to my email.

[ZABI]

to send email you need a language that can interact with your smtp or simply email server. you can do that very easily using PHP.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp
http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php

[Atrisa Milani]

The problem is that I can't use php or perl, because this form resides on Liferay server on tomcat 7 which is JAVA based; I could use Liferay's own web form, but that is some lame.

[ZABI]

then you may use supported language. JSP if it supports. or simply you can upload a file to another server that supports PHP and set your form's action to that server (Although its not a proper way but worth a try)

[Atrisa Milani]

Thanks Zabi. I am now trying with JSP. Where can I get or download this "/blx.tld" file as it is complaining about it. I have been googling, but doesn't get me any where.

[Atrisa Milani]

Found this one link here: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~bwang/java/js/jsp/blx.tld