I want to put a form on my webpage where users can submit enquiry's and they we be automatically emailed to the business email address, this would consist of 2 text areas and a drop down list, i know how to make the form, my problem is getting this to forward to my email address without using outlook express etc.
I think it would need cgi, but i do not know how to use this
2007-03-10 23:05:26 · 5 answers · asked by kinglee28 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Go to http://www.intrinzicdesignz.com/formgen it's a free form generator and a free form handler, no ads will be put on your website.
2007-03-12 06:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by dm-dnd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I presume you are currently using a mailto: link which launches into their preferred email client. If you want it to be sent from your web-site itself you will need to use some form of auto-responder code. Depending on the type of hosting you have this could be in PHP, ASP, Perl etc. Basically the form submits to a page (this can be the same page with some coding to determine whether to display a blank page or email the filled in fields) which uses the information on the form to create an email in the correct way for the language in use. There are plenty of examples out there - if you are using PHP look up PEAR and Mail:factory - if you are using ASP find out if you have ASPMail or ASPEmail available and look them up.
2007-03-10 23:39:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Matt's script Archive at http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Its the option for FormMail that you're looking for. Although this uses Perl scripting, its very easy to set up and use and secure too!
If you're site wont allow you to use Perl scripting (although most probably will), you can always ask someone else to hold the script on their site and you can refer to it from your HTML.
There's some other really useful stuff that I'm sure will be of use to you too at Matt's pages.
Good Luck
2007-03-11 00:07:49 · answer #3 · answered by Manuel Aringarosa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) jotform.com has a free service that will handle the form mailing for you or (2) there is a popular php script at http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/ - called sendmail - which you can tailor to do the job
2007-03-11 04:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if your hosting supports the function mail() PHP go here and design the contact form
http://www.thesitewizard.com/wizards/feedbackform.shtml
otherwise use a free service for that. Go here for a form mail for free and other free services
http://www.bravenet.com/?csid=88&afilid=2516170263
2007-03-10 23:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋