Basic Feedback Form help

Emma79 · 19 February 2009 at 12:33PM

Hello,
I've been creating (my first) basic form, but am having problems receiving anything back to my email address!

I contacted the hosts (Easyspace) who wrote back:

"The contact page tries to use a script called process_form.pl to actually send the mail, and this page doesn't appear to have been uploaded into your webspace. You would need to put it in the www folder beside the contact page."

I'm not sure quite what I need to do. I created the form from online tutorials, but haven't seen anything about creating another page for the form script.

Thank you - your help is much appreciated!
Emma

e00c · 19 February 2009 at 1:31PM

Hi Emma,

Can you copy and paste your form 'code' here please?

See this other thread too: click me

Once you've copied your code - I'll make some alterations and send you it back

Emma79 · 19 February 2009 at 1:40PM

Hi,
Code below. Will take a look at your link now.

Thank you!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform" method="post" action="process_form.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="email_ad" value="[EMAIL="web@myemail.com"]web@myemail.com[/EMAIL]">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="put your subject here.">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_page" value="thankyou.html">
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Tahoma">Let us contact
you!</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Tahoma">
<input name="Vname" type="Text" value="Name" size="25">
<br>
</font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Tahoma">
<input name="Vemail" type="Text" value="email/phone" size="25">
</font>
<p> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Tahoma">
<input type="submit" name="S1" value="Go">
</font>
</form>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

</body>
</html>

e00c · 19 February 2009 at 2:23PM

[html] <form action="sendmail.php" method="post" name="myform">
Let Us Contact You!<br>
<label>
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="Name">
</label>
<br>
<input name="contact" type="text" id="contact" value="E-mail/Number" />

<br>

<label>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="send">
</label>
</form>[/html]

replace that with what you have already.. (edit the fonts / sizes etc) then copy this next bit and save it as sendmail.php once you've done that - upload it to the same directory as your contact page...

[php]
<?php
$name = $_POST;
$contact = $_POST;

// Add your e-mail here
$admin = "ADD YOUR EMAIL HERE@123.COM";

$message = 'Someone has filled out the contact form on your website' . "\n\n";
$message .= 'Name: ' . $name . "\n";
$message .= 'Contact: ' . $contact . "\n";
$message .= $_POST;
$sendTo = $admin;
$Bcc = 'PUTYOUEMAILHERE@something.com';

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

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

header ("Location: thankyou.html");

?>
[/php]

That should work o_0

Emma79 · 19 February 2009 at 6:09PM

It works!! Thank you so much!!

I looked at the www.tectite.com site which was recommended on the link you gave. Is this where I'd learn to do this myself?

Thank you again - I really appreciate you help.
Emma

e00c · 19 February 2009 at 6:41PM

I have no idea... just type into google "html tutorials"...

I hate coding.. only learn it when i need to..

Basic Feedback Form help

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