I'm doing a form on MX,but I just don't get how I can get the results to my email without Outlook popping up?

Question

I know how to do the form, but I just want that when people click submit it doesn't prompt Outlook or any other mail program. Please,help..

Answer 1

I presume by "MX" you mean Dreamweaver.

You need to have a server-side script running to handle the form submission. PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl, ColdFusion are some popular ones. The script is essentially a page, that your form submits to. You need to write the code that reads the form values from the submission action, and... do whatever it is you want it to do after that. Create an e-mail object to send yourself an e-mail of the results, or store them in a database, or whatever.

Without a server-side scripting language, you are depending on the end-user's computer to send the results of the form to an e-mail. Whatever that user's default mail client is, be it Outlook or Eudora or what have you, will be invoked and may open a new e-mail window.

If you do not have any programming experience, I recommend PHP/MySQL for Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470096004/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0984288-7766013?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174342888&sr=8-1 ) - the Dummies series is an excellent resource for beginners because it does not assume you already know anything about the subject getting started.