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| message from gea2004 on 22 Jul 2004 |
Dear,
I want to get a form on my website where people fill in their e-mailaddress
and it gets sends to my e-mailaddress (one I specified for it) without going
through the e-mailprogramme like outlook express. This is the current way the
form gets posted. Does anyone know how to go about this? I work with
dreamwaever XP.
thanks!
Gea
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| baZzaretta replied to gea2004 on 22 Jul 2004 |
You will need something like PHP or ASP, depanding on what system you server
runs. There are planty of generic scripts written in PHP or ASP that can help
you with you contact form. Type in on google and you will find them. Once you
have the script ready, all you need is to load it up on you server and add its
URL to the form's ACTION atttibute. Good luck!
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| Murray *TMM* replied to gea2004 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.).
You pick.
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