Best way of retrieving form information

SD1990

Hello ,

What is the best way of retrieving information that people have filled in , in say a contact form ?

I thought a simple 'mailto' would do the trick but apparently its not the way to do it ?

Any help appriciated thanks

louie

server side using PHP or ASP

SD1990

how do u do this ? do u have a code example ? dont know much about php or asp

louie

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_post.asp

tommycahir

Have a look @ http://www.tectite.com/ They provide a ready made contact form script and include examples of how to set it up and etc.

SD1990

This is the code i currently have. When you click the submit button nothing happens at all.

<center>If you have an enquiry, please complete the following email form:</center>.     
<FORM name="em" action="/cgi-bin/form_submit/em.html" method="post">
<center>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<B>Your Name: *</B>&nbsp
<INPUT class=textMainSmall maxLength=60 size=40 name="name"><br/><br/>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<B>Email Address: *</B>&nbsp<INPUT class=textMainSmall maxLength=60 size=40 name="email"><br/><br/>
<B>Telephone Number:</B>&nbsp<INPUT class=textMainSmall maxLength=30 size=40 name="phone"><br/><br/>
<B align="top">Please Enter Your Enquiry here:</B>&nbsp<br/><TEXTAREA class=textMainSmall name="comments" rows=8 cols=47 type="text"></TEXTAREA><br/><br/>
<INPUT type=button value=SEND name=Submit></FORM>

What i want it to do is send the info to the cgi bin , which sends it to my email and redirects the user to the thank you page.

The code in the cgi bin is as follows

# submit file for email form
    
    Tag-Required: name
    
    Tag-Default comments ""
    
    Email-file em.template
    Email-to client[EMAIL="client@gmail.com"]@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
    
    Return-document: thankyou.html

   Subject: Comments from EM form
    
    Comments from:  ~name
    ~?~:email==yes ~{-
    Email:          ~email
    ~}-
    
Phone Number:
~phone
    Comments:
    ~comments

anyone know how to get this workin ? or a simpler way to do what i want to do.

thanks

Liam Byrne

SD1990 wrote: »

This is the code i currently have. When you click the submit button nothing happens at all.

That's because you don't have a submit button; you've got a button called submit (which is not the same thing).

Try INPUT TYPE="submit" for the button.

SD1990

ok now the button is working

its still not redirecting to the thanks page and havnt checkd if its saving the info

SD1990

its not saving the info either

SD1990

still having trouble with this?

Can anyone see where my code is wrong and why its not saving and redirecting to the thank you page ?

or does anyone have a simler way of doing this. Customer fills out enquiry form and client receives it. thanks

Moonstar

action="/cgi-bin/form_submit/em.html"

That doesn't look right to me - the "action" part of the form should usually reference some type of script in the cgi-bin directory instead of a .html file.

SD1990

Ya that was wrong , terribly wrong,

Decided against CGI in the end. Couldnt figure it out. Went with VB.

Question..

Does the vb script declaration have to be before the DOCTYPE or can it be after , because if its before it changes my css:mad:

Thanks for the help lads!!!