Topic: HTML Form (Page 1 of 1)

Ok I am making a website, and there will be a form where a user can sign up. I want the form to ask for bunch of stuff, and their e-mail included. When they click submit, it automatically sends the e-mail. I don't want it to open outlook express and send through that. I just want it to send through the browser and the reply address will be the one the user inputted. Also if the form comes with a free e-mail processor script in CGI or something, that processes the e-mail to its location. Any tutorials or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Michael

[This message has been edited by marf (edited 01-31-2003).]

To do it the way you describe you can't rely on html alone, you must use some kind of server-script that takes the info from the forms and mails it from the server.

Depending on what capabilities you have on the server I can almost guarantee that you can find a free script that will do this for you.

Find out what you can use on the server and do a google for mailscript + language. Example: "mailscript php" in google gives 7 pages.

As you try out one of the scripts you find, pop in to the server-side forum if you need more help.
/Dan

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marf: What DmS said ^^^^^^^^^^^

What language(s) do you have available? Its awful neat in PHP - see this tutorial:
www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/php/contact_page/contactpage_1_en.html

I'll move this to the server-side scripting forum.

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I've used the BigNoseBird Perl form. Works very well. They also have one in PHP.
http://www.bignosebird.com

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Thanks for the help, I got one working