Mailto in forms

Jen199

Hi,

I want to put a form on a webpage that will use the mailto option for submitting the results.

However, I am not sure if what I want to do is possible :-

I want the mailto, to send it to different people depending on the information the user selects in the form. i.e. if they choose option A, the mailto is sent to person A. if this choose option Bm the mailto is sent to person B etc.

I'm not sure if this is clear, or possible!!!

Anyone any ideas? The server I am using is crap - can't handle asp.

Please help as I need to get this done by the end of today. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

J

smcelhinney

What can your server support? What server is it?

You can use either CGI or PHP to do this. Actually most web based programming languages have some form of SMTP send functionality.

More info please

Or google "form to email PHP OR CGI OR <whatever_language>"

HTH.

Jen199

Thanks a million for getting back to me.
The server supports PHP - about which I know little or nothing to be honest.
I know HTML and ASP quite well!!!

Basically, I want a user to fill out a form. In that form, they will select their department. I need it to automatically send an email to someone from that department when the form is submitted. Not sure if this is possible but any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,

Jen

stevenmu

MailTo isn't really supported much by browsers any more, you'd be much better off with either a PHP script (which you should be able to understand easily enough if you know ASP), or frontpage extensions if your server supports them.

If you do want to use mailto, you should be able to use javascript in the onChange trigger for your select to set the action for the form to whatever email address you need.

Eoin

Jen199 wrote:

Thanks a million for getting back to me.
The server supports PHP - about which I know little or nothing to be honest.
I know HTML and ASP quite well!!!

Basically, I want a user to fill out a form. In that form, they will select their department. I need it to automatically send an email to someone from that department when the form is submitted. Not sure if this is possible but any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,

Jen

I have no PHP experience whatsosever, but I can't imagine it would be hard to implement a simple mail script.

Found this on google pretty quickly:

[PHP]<?php
$recipient = 'user@example.com';
$subject = $_POST;
$from = stripslashes($_POST);
$msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST);
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg);
?>[/PHP]

[html]<form name="form1" method="post"
action="<?php echo $_SERVER ?>">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td>Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Name"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subject</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Subject"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td><textarea name="MsgBody"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>[/html]

Full details here.

I don't know why exactly, but I really don't like when forms use the email client on my PC. Probably because I generally don't use my work email address for online stuff.

Hobbes

stevenmu wrote:

MailTo isn't really supported much by browsers any more,

o_O

All browsers currently support mailTo command. You need to just have an email client set up on your machine. If your referring to the server sending the mails then it shouldn't matter to the client at all.