Contact page problem

manonthemoon

I'm trying to put a contact form together, where visitors input contact names, email, tel etc.

I followed the htmlgoodies tutorial. However, when i click on the submit button my outlook express kicks in and the info is not sent to email account.

Do i need to use some Perl or java script code?

any thoughts anyone.
Thanks

The Corinthian

Sounds like your Form ACTION is a 'mailto' rather than submitting to a server-side script.

Still, post your code, we're not clairvoyant.

manonthemoon

Think you could be right Corinthian. here is the code anyway




<CAPTION> 
<FORM action="mailto:bocjobs@yahoo.co.uk" ?method="POST">
<P>
<INPUT name=recipient type=hidden value=bocjobs@yahoo.co.uk>
<INPUT name=redirect type=hidden
value=thankyou.html>
<INPUT name=required type=hidden
value="Check in month,Check in day,Number in party,First name,Surname,Address1,City_County,Country,email,Telephone">

</P>
<CENTER>...........................................................................

The Corinthian

You've done a cut 'n paste of a form that was originally meant submit to a server side script. The ACTION should point to that and you'll need that script (there are various free form2email scripts out there) on the server.

Also, your server will have to support the scripting technology you intend on using.

My advice is that if you don't understand the difference between server and client side scripting (my guess is not really). That you should start there as it'll be a lot easier to implement what your after if you do.

zAbbo

if its in asp try this

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<%
	if Request.Form("FFSubmitted") = "yes" then
		Dim BodyString
		Dim objCDO
		Dim RedirectURL
		Dim FormFields
		Dim arrFormFields
			FormFields = "Subject~Message~Phone~Name~Address~Email"
			If FormFields <> "" Then
				arrFormFields = split(FormFields,"~")
			End If
	        Set objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") 
			objCDO.From = "contact@yoursite.com"
			objCDO.To = "yourname@here.com"
			objCDO.Cc = ""
			objCDO.Bcc = ""
			objCDO.Subject = "Contact Form fom Your Site"	
			BodyString =  Replace("~The following information was sent from the contact page on your site","~",chr(13) & chr(10) )& chr(13)
			If FormFields <> "" Then
				For Each item In arrFormFields
					BodyString = BodyString & item & ": " & Request.Form(item) & chr(13)
				Next
			End If
			objCDO.Body = BodyString
			objCDO.BodyFormat = 1
			objCDO.MailFormat = 1
			objCDO.Send
			Set objCDO = Nothing
			RedirectURL = "thankyou.asp" 
			If RedirectURL <> "" then 
				If Request.QueryString <> "" Then
  					response.redirect(RedirectURL & "?" & Request.QueryString)
				else
					response.redirect(RedirectURL)
				end If
			end if
	end if
%>

You must insert the Code in the asp page and have a form containing Subject~Message~Phone~Name~Address~Email fields or whatever you require. Also the
RedirectURL = "thankyou.asp" refers to the page that will be shown when the user submits the form.
The form name for this example was form1. I also have the form code should you require it for completeness.

Regards

manonthemoon

Thanks Baz