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DerekD

Sep 10 2009, 06:12 PM

Here's the link to the page:
http://mindtoygames.com/contact.html

You can see I have an existing form there that came with the site, with this code creating it, I believe:

CODE

<form style="padding:0;margin:0 ">  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="txt5" style="margin-left:10px ">

  <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="67" style="padding-top:4px "><b>Name</b> </td>
    <td valign="top"  style="padding-bottom:15px "><input name="Name" type="text" class="txt5" id="Name" style="width:148px;height:15px;border:1px solid #3BA7D6 "></td>
  </tr>
   <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="67" style="padding-top:4px "><b>Email</b> </td>
    <td valign="top"  style="padding-bottom:15px "><input name="Email" type="text" class="txt5" id="Email" style="width:148px;height:15px;border:1px solid #3BA7D6 "></td>

  </tr>
   <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="67" style="padding-top:4px "><b>Comments</b> </td>
    <td valign="top"  style="padding-bottom:5px "><textarea name="Message" class="txt5" id="Message" style="width:148px;height:36px;border:1px solid #3BA7D6;overflow:auto "></textarea></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top" colspan="2" align="right" style="padding-right:10px "><a href="#" style="color:#F26522;font-size:12px"><b>Submit</b></a></td>

  </tr>
</table>
</form>

How do I set this up to accept any input in the boxes and e-mail it to me when the person clicks Submit? (Turn it into a contact form, essentially). Please help with how I modify this code, and PHP file code I may need.

Thanks!
Derek

pandy

Sep 10 2009, 07:25 PM

See http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#form-howto and the following FAQ entry.

DerekD

Sep 11 2009, 10:19 AM

Could someone give me some exact help, lines of code, etc. I'm not a huge HTML guy and need some help with this.

pandy

Sep 11 2009, 12:08 PM

It isn't the HTML that is the big issue. It's the script on the server that the action attribute should point to.

You can find ready-made scripts at for example http://hotscripts.com, but you must know what language you want it in. Are languages like PHP or Perl available to you?

DerekD

Sep 11 2009, 12:29 PM

My server supports PHP and Perl. I know that a separate "processing php file" would be needed to email me the input in the fields. How do I "connect" it to the existing form?

If someone could give me the lines of code needed that would work in the code I gave above, i'd appreciate it.

pandy

Sep 11 2009, 12:56 PM

With the action attribute. You have an example at the top of the FAQ I linked to.

Also see http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/form.html .

DerekD

Sep 11 2009, 03:39 PM

I need just the lines themselves...not looking to figure it out. I'm even willing to pay a few dollars for some help with this from someone.

Darin McGrew

Sep 11 2009, 05:13 PM

Perhaps one of these CGI or PHP form-processing programs will meet your needs:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_...orm_Processing/
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scri...orm_Processing/

pandy

Sep 11 2009, 05:27 PM

QUOTE(DerekD @ Sep 11 2009, 10:39 PM)

I need just the lines themselves...not looking to figure it out. I'm even willing to pay a few dollars for some help with this from someone.

How are you going to be able to do this if you don't figure it out? There is no copy-paste code that fits all situations.

You have a FORM tag, right? That form tag should, among other things have an action attribute. The value if that attribute should be the URL to the script that handles the form.

<form action="URL/TO/SCRIPT.PHP"...>

What exactly that URL is only you can know.

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