form mailer

[andrewdekker]

I need some help. I created a form using dreamweaver (heres the link to the
site and form [url]http://www.brentwoodlivery.ca/evaluation[/url] )
Basically when you press "submit" i want the form emailed to
[email]evaluation@brentwoodlivery.ca[/email]

how do i do this??? i've tried to use different scripts but my lack of
knowledge in perl has hindered my ability to get this working. could somone
help me out?

[rob::db]

It's dead easy in PHP - just make a script that checks and validates the
form input, then sends it using the mail() function. Obviously it needs to
be running on a machine which has a mail server which is accessible to PHP
(i.e., just about any web hosting package, but not your own development
environment, probably).


andrewdekker wrote:

> I need some help. I created a form using dreamweaver (heres the link
> to the site and form [url]http://www.brentwoodlivery.ca/evaluation[/url] )
> Basically when you press "submit" i want the form emailed to
> [email]evaluation@brentwoodlivery.ca[/email]
>
> how do i do this??? i've tried to use different scripts but my lack
> of knowledge in perl has hindered my ability to get this working.
> could somone help me out?

[arvidb]

Well, you can do it with any serverside scripting-language (asp, perl etc). If
you don't have access to such an option you can use a more ugly userside
version. It works, but it doesn't wortk that well in all browsers.

<form method="post" action="mailto:evaluation@brentwoodlivery.ca"
enctype="text/plain">
<input type=text name=your_comments>
<input type=submit value="Submit Your Comments">
</form>

This opens a new mail in the visitors own mailapplication and it is up to the
user to send the mail. In some browsers you get a popup asking if you really
want to send it as a mail, and in some you dont.