How do I set up a form on my website?

welnik

I did a web design course in 1999 and things have moved on somewhat since then.

I cannot find my course notes, but I bet they are of no use now, but I am trying to set up a very simple form for enquiries via my website.

Anyone able to offer any advice on where to start?

cheers

Welnik

bingo_bango

Depends how your site works. Have a look at the W3 site HERE to see examples of html code based on your requirements, or HERE to have it done automatically.

f1charlie

Some more stuff here:

http://webmonkey.com/webmonkey/99/30/index4a.html?tw=authoring

cwoodham

And here's another

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/emailfwd/index.php

Astaroth

What are you wanting to happen when they hit the submit button on your form?

The form itself is very basic HTML but doing something with the information they submit is a little more tricky - but there are plenty of free examples

welnik

Astaroth wrote:

What are you wanting to happen when they hit the submit button on your form?

The form itself is very basic HTML but doing something with the information they submit is a little more tricky - but there are plenty of free examples

Just something very basic. A general enquiry form.

Your Name:*
Location:*
Email Address:*
Phone Number:*
Message:
Please Complete Required Fields Marked *

Ive made the actual form with boxes to be filled in, but I cannot remember for the life of me what to do next. In 1999 things seemed a bit simpler.

welnik

cwoodham wrote:

And here's another

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/emailfwd/index.php

This one is only free if you allow ads to appear all over your website. Ive actually got the form its just what to do next which Im struggling with.

thanks anyway

alanclose

I haven't tried this but it could be what you are looking for

also this is very easy to follow

derek_mcgilvray

The best bet is to use the PHP scripting language to process your form. Something like this should do the trick, send me email if you need more help.

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "email@address";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) !! $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
if (!eregi("\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[/email][email])) !! mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); }[/email]

Chippy_Minton

If your web host is capable of running CGI scripts then try:

Matt's FormMail - http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.htm

or an enhanced version called NMS FormMail - http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

welnik

derek_mcgilvray wrote:

The best bet is to use the PHP scripting language to process your form. Something like this should do the trick, send me email if you need more help.

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "email@address";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) !! $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
if (!eregi("\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[/email][email])) !! mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); }[/email]

Super, thanks for that. Do I just embed that into the code of my webpage? Do I then upload it into the relevant bit with my web page hoster? I use purplecloud and on their website it says

The standard PHP installation is version 4.4.2.

If you wish to use PHP5, you will need to either:

Use the extension .php5 for your PHP scripts.
Create a .htaccess file in the directory containing your PHP scripts. The .htaccess file should contain "AddHandler php5-cgi .php"

This is all double dutch to me!