[Chopin]

How can you have a form to submit text to your email without the submitting person having to open their email editor? For example, I want to make a form to submit quotes onto my website. I have this:

<form action="MAILTO:****************" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<h3>Send in the quotes!</h3>
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="| name"
value="Fredil" size="30">
<br>
Mail:<br>
<input type="text" name="| mail"
value="(leaving real email out)@gmail.com" size="40">
<br>

Quote:<br>
<textarea name="| quote" rows=4 cols=40>
By what stretch of imagination is this considered one full serving!?</textarea>
<br>
Speaker:<br>
<input type="text" name="| speaker"
value="Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle" size="60">
<br>
Additional Comments:<br>
<textarea name="| comments" rows=2 cols=40>
Talking about baby food</textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
</form>

But this opens your email editor when you click "Submit". How can you have this emailed to you but without the sender having to open their email?

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.Do you have a server side scripting language support on your server? Like PHP. You need that to do what you ae asking, plain HTML cannot do it.

Edited by Stryker250, 15 July 2007 - 02:55 PM.

[Stryker250]

.Do you have a server side scripting language support on your server? Like PHP. You need that to do what you ae asking, plain HTML cannot do it.

Edited by Stryker250, 15 July 2007 - 02:55 PM.

[Major Payne]

Mine has it in the cgi-bin called mailform.php and processes any mail form on the pages I may have. If you don't have this because your hosting service does not allow php or other scripting languages, you might look for a free/paid MailForm Service.

Ron

[Chopin]

I don't know... I'm just 13, so I can't afford a domain Does Freewebs allow?

[BirdieUK]

I don't know... I'm just 13, so I can't afford a domain Does Freewebs allow?

Last time i checked, no.

Wow, forgot about the good old days of freeweb and messing with their administration.

[Major Payne]

You didn't give your web host's name to check it out, but there are free hosting services that do allow PHP, MySQL, ASP and all the other good stuff. I'm sure you can Google for one provided you don't mind changing hosts.

Also, you might think about setting up a Guest Book for people to submit quotes. Your present hosting service may already have one available for you to install.

Ron

[Stryker250]

If you do have a php enabled host and can't find a pre-made script for your contactpage / form...here is a video tutorial on how to make a contact form which sends out a text/plain email to the email address that you specify.

TotalScripts.Net
All the source code of the tutorials are available for download too...just check out the source code page.