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| message from jimbo bagins on 22 Jul 2004 |
how do you make a normal submit form to your email without using mailto or
somthing like that. all you have to do is press the submit button and it takes
you to a page that says your email has been sent.
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| Murray *TMM* replied to jimbo bagins on 22 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 want?
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