| Jedi |
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| Fri Jan 19 2007 07:44 PM |
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Contact Form Not Working
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Can someone please let me know why the contact form I have put together doesnt work? It all looks nice but nothing happens when you press submit.
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:myemailaddress">
<INPUT TYPE="text" Name="name" SIZE="30">
<INPUT TYPE="text" Email="name" SIZE="30">
<TEXTAREA NAME="Comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>
<INPUT TYPE="Submit">
<INPUT TYPE="Reset">
</FORM>
| emailuser |
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| Fri Jan 19 2007 11:31 PM |
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Re: Contact Form Not Working
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<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="CLICK HERE">
Doubt if this will solve your problem though .
Either way , Arnt you also supposed to have another webpage it takes you to after you click on the form button that says summit like 'your submission has been sent' or whatever .
| Jedi |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 12:48 PM |
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Thanks for your reply. Im not too sure how to do the 'email sent page', can you help?
| emailuser |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 06:14 PM |
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Re: Contact Form Not Working
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I can only do forms using php and i assume your using free isp webspace or summit that doesnt have php - so cant help you .
You could try a goggle search for the old freeserve web authoring newsgroups as questions about forms was often asked .
| Nanook |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 06:54 PM |
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Do you have PHP support on your server?
If you are using your free ISP space then it is doubtful but if you are not it is possible in which case I can help you make your form send a submission on another page rather than "mailto"
| Jedi |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 09:50 PM |
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Re: Contact Form Not Working
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Yes, I am sure Ive got PHP support, my website is hosted with oneandone.co.uk Any help would be great, thanks
| Whizwrinkly |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 10:55 PM |
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Yes, 1&1 does have PHP support. You will be better off using that, as your email address will be server side so it's more secure (as long as you use a bad-strings list to check against input strings).
| emailuser |
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| Sat Jan 20 2007 11:49 PM |
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If you have php then thats good - but you also need some sort of method to prevent the spammer bots from using - and usually thats in the form of a image code .
You also need to prevent the spammers from doing something called email injection .
Unfortunatly i dont have the available time needed for detailed replys at the moment and while i'm happy to point you in the right direction i cant do the technical support thingy at the moment .
takeaway_checkout.php
clicking on submit would take you to takeaway_checkout_do.php
<?php
$uzi="WebUser";
?>
<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<form action="takeaway_checkout_do.php" method="post">
<tr>
<td class="ta_contact_gen_1"><b>5 DIGIT ANTI SPAM BOT CODE</b></td>
<td class="ta_contact_gen_2"><img src="images/arrow_right.gif" width="11" height="9" border="0"></td>
<td><input type="text" name="abby" size="46" class="ta_contact_gen_3"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="SUBMIT" class="ta_form_button"></td>
</tr>
<input type="hidden" name="user" value="<?php print $uzi; ?>">
</form>
</table>
On the next page you would have summit like the following .
<?php
$demo=$_POST['abby'];
$blah=$_POST['user'];
print "demo = $demo <br>";
print "blah = $blah <br>";
?>
Forget about sending stuff via email for the moment - learn how to use forms and learn how to pass and grab varibles .
Most people want to run before learning how to walk and are only interested in instant results - are you one of those people ? .
| Nanook |
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| Tue Jan 23 2007 05:00 PM |
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Re: Contact Form Not Working
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Right as you have PHP this will be a lot easier for you, and will also prevent against spamming of your email address.
I see no reason to tell you here how to do it when there are plently of well written sites already showing it so instead I will link you to the best I have found
http://www.kirupa.com/web/php_contact_form.htm
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/feedbackphp.shtml
I think the first link is the best.
If you have any problems I'll be happy to help