Website Contact Form

4thfrog

I'd like a contact form on my website; one where people can choses from a drop down list of the products they are most interested in and then fill in a further information box before submitting it. I've done one before, but it sent the form via the users email programed, I'd really like a web based one, I've seen them on loads of sites, but I've no idea how to do it Can anyone on here help?

M4RKM

there are various ways of doing this, depends on what your web hosting provider supports

M

4thfrog

I'm with relic host, how would find out what they support for this?

chunter

Nothing in relichosts help.
But what your looking for is a cgi script form-mailer.
It's a standard script which you tweak a bit to send the emails to your email address.

As a member you have access to relic's forums.
Try a search on their forums or start a thread of your own.

If cgi isn't an option, try the Fantisco options.
There should be a form maker in there somewhere.

Browntoa

bravenet do a free one if memory serves me right ,just embed the html in your contact webpage

FreheitOverture

Or you can do it via PHP. I can write you a script for free if you want one. It's incredibly simple

e00c

I'm guessing you know how to make the drop down box your self? and have created the form but don't know how to 'send it'?

If so.... you need something similar to this .php file (all you do is upload this to your server... and edit your contact form page to use this ..)

Save this file as "sendmail.php"
[php]
<?php

// Edit these to match your form

$name = $_POST;
$email = $_POST;
$subject = $_POST;
$company = $_POST;
$budget = $_POST;

// Add your e-mail here

$admin = YOUREMAIL@Mail.COM;

// Edited these to match your own form

$message = 'Someone has filled out the contact form on your website' . "\n\n";
$message .= 'Name: ' . $name . "\n";
$message .= 'Company: ' . $company . "\n";
$message .= 'Email: ' . $email . "\n";
$message .= 'Subject: ' . $subject . "\n";
$message .= 'Budget: ' . $budget . "\n";
$message .= "Query:\n\n";
$message .= $_POST;
$sendTo = $admin;
$Bcc = 'YOUREMAIL@MAIL.COM';

$headers = 'From: Contact Form <' . $email . '>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n" . 'Bcc: ' . $Bcc . "\r\n";

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

// replace contact_done with your redirected webpage

header ("Location: contact_done.html");

?>
[/php]

Add this at the top of your actual form: <form action="sendmail.php" method="post" name="form1" >

If you don't understand that - Message me and i'll do it for you..

FreheitOverture

Yep ^^^ that's pretty much what I would have done. I was just in the middle of a HTML crisis so had no time to type it out

Use the above example

e00c

FreheitOverture wrote: »

Yep ^^^ that's pretty much what I would have done. I was just in the middle of a HTML crisis so had no time to type it out

Use the above example

no probs!! theres a zillion different ways. but think something similar to that is "easy" enough.

coding = the devil. I hate it.

I'm more of a visual person!! lol

isofa

Make sure you secure the directory with the script, otherwise someone can just come along and harvest your e-mail address and start spamming...

sparky7

I use the Formmail script from http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php
.. free and easy..