Form Question

[ace0]

After you fill out a form, you hit a button like submit- how do you get that to email the form to you?

[Koolguy]

You can either do it like this:


<form action="mailto:you@yourdomain.com">

...or you could send it to a cgi or php script for mailing (better option)

[ace0]

why is the cgi option better?

[jiminsd]

Without the cgi option the browser will ask the sender if it is ok to send the email... looks rather poor. Besides with the "post" cgi method you will get the info from the form in a nice, easy-to-read format.

Simple nice script is Formmail

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml

[ace0]

so, how do you do this?

[Canuckkev]

Get a formail cgi script. Lots out there. OR go to cgiforme.com, or bravenet.com and I think they have remotely hosted formmail, so no need for a cgi-bin.

[jiminsd]

I have not use this one but it is in my bookmarks...

http://pages.hostedscripts.com/

[ace0]

how does it work?

[LeX]

You setup the script as instructed, upload it to a CGI-friendly host, chmod it, then use
<FORM action="formmail.pl" method="POST"> for your form.