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| message from SuomiNeito on 19 Jul 2004 |
I have created a simple form and wish to get Dreamweaver to send the results to
me on an e-mail when form is completed.
What is the absolutely easiest (but still safe) way to do this?
I have looked into GCI scripting but before mastering the time consuming
scripting languages,
I wish to know if there is an easier way for the novice.
Many thanks in advance,
Outi
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| christoff915 replied to SuomiNeito on 19 Jul 2004 |
the easiest way would be to grab the kaos mailer extension from kaosweaver.com
and use it to send your mail out. you can use asp, php or cf. it's free and it
works great. plus, you can look at the code it generates and learn how to write
it yourself. it helped me a lot, and i had no clue how to use forms or get info
sent to me. my company now has a fully-functioning (although still rather
simple) feedback form that works really well (i use asp, in case youre
curious). anyways, hope it helps you out.
christoff
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| SuomiNeito replied to christoff915 on 20 Jul 2004 |
Thank you for your reply. Does this Kaos Mailer come with good instructions?
Outi
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| cscherm replied to SuomiNeito on 19 Jul 2004 |
I someone that knows programing, program asp file for me. I have to use a host on an Windows server and data goes to Micro Soft Access.
I can send you file if you want to go that way.
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| Murray *TMM* replied to SuomiNeito on 19 Jul 2004 |
There are two basic ways to process form data -
1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page
Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers - and on that email client responding to
the mailto call (Eudora on the Mac is a good example of one that does not).
Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
Which way do you choose?
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