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  • 01-06-2007 1:55am
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    Xylophonic
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    I'm having trouble creating a contact form for my website. Ive searched on Google and found some links/info, but they seem to talk in circles and I havent got the hang of it!

    Would someone be able to create a form for me or perhaps guide me through the process in real lehmann's terms as I'm kinda slow with this whole thing.

    Tanx,
    Darren


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    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Think of it in two parts...

    The first part being the html you use to draw/present the form. (which is pretty straight-forward)
    There's a good primer on this side of things here.

    Once you have it looking right, you just give names to all your inputs and set the form action to the path/name of your script.
    Generally you'll be using the POST method, which you should also add to the form tag.
    So something like this...
    <form action="scripts/formmail.php" method="post">
    Some form mail scripts might require you to use "hidden" inputs, but these will be well documented, so it's mostly just copy/paste.

    The second part being the script that takes the user input once they hit submit.
    There are plenty of ready-made contact form scripts out there, but do some research on the one you settle on before using it... just incase it's old/abandoned and filled with security holes.
    I was looking at this one before, works quite well, and they seem to be keeping it up to date and improving it http://www.boaddrink.com


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