Setting up a form for an email recipient.

[paulbrown3rd]

Hello,

Thank you for this fourm, Macromedia. I need help on a project I am working
on. I am deleloping a web site that has a page where a form is placed. The
infomation or output from this form I want to send to an e-maill address. I
have developed the form in Dreamweaver. How can I have the form submit the
information to an email?

Thank you for your help.

Paul Brown 3rd.

[rob::db]

You need some server-side scripting for this. There are many scripts already
available (the most popular of which may already be installed on your server
by your hosting company), or you can build your own.


paulbrown3rd wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for this fourm, Macromedia. I need help on a project I am
> working on. I am deleloping a web site that has a page where a form
> is placed. The infomation or output from this form I want to send to
> an e-maill address. I have developed the form in Dreamweaver. How
> can I have the form submit the information to an email?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Paul Brown 3rd.

[Murray *TMM*]

There are two basic ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

Start by asking your host what they provide for form processing.

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> Hello,
>
> Thank you for this fourm, Macromedia. I need help on a project I am
> working
> on. I am deleloping a web site that has a page where a form is placed.
> The
> infomation or output from this form I want to send to an e-maill address.
> I
> have developed the form in Dreamweaver. How can I have the form submit
> the
> information to an email?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Paul Brown 3rd.
>

[paulbrown3rd]

Hello Newsgroup users,

Thank you very much for the replies. They sound really good and I will give them a try.

Again, thanks:

Paul Brown 3rd.