Form results sent to my e-mail

[kgpbeyond]

Hi, I'm having some major trouble and I'm sure there's a simple solution, but I am drawing a major blank right now. What I need to do is make a form that, when the user clicks "Submit" it will send the results of the form to my e-mail address. See, that's simple, right? Well the thing is, with all the forms I've been finding, it requires that the user has Outlook set up or some other e-mail client, but if the user is like me, they've only got a web-based e-mail like excite.com or something, so if they try to send a form that way it won't go through 'cause they don't have a pc based e-mail client. I'm certain there is a way to solve this dilemma, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope I made sense :) Thanks in advance for any help on this probably simple problem.

[pardicity3]

Well, if you want the results sent to you directly without the user having to do anything but push the submit button, you are going to have to use some form of server side scripting. I would personally use PHP's mail() function.

Granted, your host must support PHP ... is this the case? Or do you know if you have any kind of server-side support?

[whackaxe]

www.bravenet.com form2mail. thats just one although there are absolutly loads out there

[kgpbeyond]

yeah, PHP might work out best, 'cause I kinda wanna have a customer database after they submit their orders too so I know when I have returning customers and such, so I'll prolly go w/ php. I've been wanting to learn PHP for awhile now so I guess I finally have a valid excuse. heh. And as for my host... it'll either be myself or my friend. I'll only host myself if I can figure out how to get the software to work otherwise I'll settle for my friend's server if he'll let me install PHP on it. anyway, thanks for the info and once I figure out exactly where I'll be hosting, I'm sure I'll have more questions :oD

[cg9com]

I thought mailto: would still activate a web based email?

[cubeddesign]

i use formmailphp its one file.. it works great. i can set it up for you if you want just email me at webmaster@cubeddesign.com - just like you need, it sends what they filled in right to your email.

[Stuart H]

I would like to have a form on my website to.

I have tried doing it myself in Dreamweaver MX but I'm struggling to accomplish anything. This hurts to admit it!

All I want is something like this http://www.peapod.co.uk/callback.htm - Peapod are our direct competitors.

Any other help to better my competitors would be greatly appreciated! Come on people - help me!!

www.blue-ice.co.uk (http://www.blue-ice.co.uk) - My website.

Best Regards

[Nightfire]

http://blinded.org.uk/mailit/signup.php

Just the basic working shell right now, will be adding anti-spam, email detection etc later on and shuld be done Sunday

[Stuart H]

Nightfire - this is great.

I would like to add a few more input boxes such as 'organisation', 'Position' and 'tel number.

Is this possible?

How I have used your form so far -

http://www.blue-ice.co.uk/Instant_reply.htm

Regards

[Nightfire]

Yeah it'll be possible, just give me a min :)

<edit>Not tested it, but it should work for you now. Just add the 3 form fields with the names
organisation
position
tel
</edit>

[Stuart H]

Ok I have it now - all works fine.

just have to move the form boxes together so it looks tidy.

Well done Nightfire.