I need a huge favor.

If any of you have time to test out my email form, and tell me if it's working all right, I'd appreciate it! Because for me, it isn't working, and I'm wondering if it's just me, or if it's everybody. Hopefully this isn't against the rules. Here's the html I'm using in case there's a mistake in it.

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:me@email.com">
<font face="century gothic" font size="2" color=#297794> NAME<BR> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30"><br>
EMAIL <BR> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="email" SIZE="40"><br>
WEBSITE/MYSPACE <BR><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="homepage" SIZE="40"><br>
QUESTION/COMMENT/FEEDBACK <BR> <TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=7 COLS=40></TEXTAREA><br><br>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" value="send" style="color: #000000; border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #297794; font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: 8pt">
<INPUT TYPE="reset" value="clear" style="color: #000000; border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #297794; font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: 8pt">
</FORM>
</FONT>


To get to the email form, go to...
1. http://theks.atspace.com/
2. Click on "...contact"

You shouldn't need method="POST" in your HTML, as that is only for sending the data to a PHP, ASP or Perl Script.

All right, thanks!

That's an awesome site you have there.:blush: I could never do something like that.:mad:

Hi!

I tried your form but as i clicked "send" my emailclient opend with an predefined email )to, subject...( and a string containing my entered info from your form...

That's an awesome site you have there.:blush: I could never do something like that.:mad:

Thanks! Of course you'd be able to do something like that, I'm still a beginner at this stuff and I did, so I'm sure anybody can make it work. Good luck! :D


Hi!

I tried your form but as i clicked "send" my emailclient opend with an predefined email )to, subject...( and a string containing my entered info from your form...

Thanks so much for testing it out. I really have no idea what's wrong with it, :confused: so I'll have to just take it down while I figure it out. :(

Well, what do you want the form to do, exactly? Right now you are using a mailto link as your form action. The link is doing what it's supposed to do and opens up the user's default mail client with a new message, containing the specified e-mail address in the "to" field.

Nice site, by the way. Very clean-looking.

Well, what do you want the form to do, exactly? Right now you are using a mailto link as your form action. The link is doing what it's supposed to do and opens up the user's default mail client with a new message, containing the specified e-mail address in the "to" field.

Nice site, by the way. Very clean-looking.

Is it possible to make it so the form sends the information to my email without having to open the user's mail client? That's what I wanted it to do.

Thanks.

It is possible, but not with just HTML. You need to have a server-side script written to process the form information and send the e-mail. It can be done with languages like PHP, ASP, etc. You would then put the URI of the script in the action attribute, and assign the method attribute a value of "post" or "get", depending on how your script reads the form input. If your form supports PHP, ASP, or Perl, then you can try using this contact form generator (http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form). There are also remote hosting options for scripts if you search around the web a bit. I'm moving your thread to the Advanced Programming forum for additional assistance.

It is possible, but not with just HTML. You need to have a server-side script written to process the form information and send the e-mail. It can be done with languages like PHP, ASP, etc. You would then put the URI of the script in the action attribute, and assign the method attribute a value of "post" or "get", depending on how your script reads the form input. If your form supports PHP, ASP, or Perl, then you can try using this contact form generator (http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form). There are also remote hosting options for scripts if you search around the web a bit. I'm moving your thread to the Advanced Programming forum for additional assistance.

OH MY.

That's just went totally over my head, lol. I'm not really familiar with PHP, ASP, and other languages. So maybe I'll stick with my old form for now, haha, at least until I have time to delve more into this form business. Thanks for taking the time to answer my posts! :)

Haha, you're welcome.

Just to clarify, though I'm not sure it will help, when I said "If your form supports PHP...", I meant to say, "If your host supports PHP..." Darn brain...

Yeah, I thought that's what you meant after I was about to ask, "How do I know if my form supports PHP," lol. Don't worry, you're not alone. My brain gets confused all the time. :) Take care.

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That's an awesome site you have there.:blush: I could never do something like that.:mad:


Thanks! Of course you'd be able to do something like that, I'm still a beginner at this stuff and I did, so I'm sure anybody can make it work. Good luck! :D



Ah, I just don't know CSS and I'm too lazy to learn :buckt:

Ah, I just don't know CSS and I'm too lazy to learn


Yeah, just like I'm too lazy to learn more about this PHP and Perl language stuff. HTML will keep me occupied for quite a while. :)

LOL, I actually didn't write my style sheet from scratch, I used the sample one from Lissa's HTML lessons.