Scary messages

[Dopple]

Can someone please do me a favour. Go here and fill in details (Unless you want to be signed up for the newsletter I'd use fake details). Thenhave a look at the messages that come up. Is there anyway to stop these coming up as these would put anyone off actually signing up.

[soccer362001]

I would say use php instead of a mailto but I know that freewebs does not support php, but you can link to an off site php file if you need to.

[Dopple]

I don't know that much about PHP so I'll have to learn it first. Thanks.

[jbot]

Originally posted by Dopple
Is there anyway to stop these coming up as these would put anyone off actually signing up.

wotcha mean by scary?

btw: not looking at site. at work, and don't follow blind links!

[Dopple]

It comes up with an alert saying that "this website is automatically sending information which could be a virus", blah blah blah that sort of thing. What I'm wondering is if there is a better way to have this layed out which stops warnings coming up. What I have at the moment is this:

<form action="MAILTO:namikmusik2@yahoo.co.uk" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name"
value="" size="20">
<br>
Email address:<br>
<input type="text" name="mail"
value="" size="20">
<br>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

Does this look ok to everyone or can you give me a few pointers on how to improve this?

[Robert Wellock]

No its your browser settings; not really the form, that norm. happens for any HTML mailto action.

[Dopple]

It doesn't usually happen when I sign up for other mailing lists though.

[jbot]

Originally posted by Dopple
It doesn't usually happen when I sign up for other mailing lists though.

that's maybe because they don't use mailto forms, but rather post the info to a serverside application which parses the form into a DB. that's how that functionality is usually (nae always) done.

[Dopple]

I see. Hmmmm. I reckon that sounds easy enough to do. Thank you.