Forms

[pottybotty]

Good Morning, everybody - I hope I am in the right place? :)

I have got myself a form which, isn't great but not bad :o but, when you press send, it brings up a Microsoft Internet Explorer message box saying something about not being encrypted for
privacy - this is a very off putting message I think to many people?
How do I get rid of it? Here's the link..

Link (http://www.pet-rescue.org.uk/homesneededform.php)


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Pottydotty

[mordred]

Originally posted by pottybotty
Good Morning, everybody - I hope I am in the right place? :)


Welcome. Actually no, you're not in the right place, because your question has nothing to do with PHP scripting. If you don't know where to put your question, a good try is to put it into General Web Building. But anyway, to your question:


I have got myself a form which, isn't great but not bad :o but, when you press send, it brings up a Microsoft Internet Explorer message box saying something about not being encrypted for
privacy - this is a very off putting message I think to many people?
How do I get rid of it? Here's the link..


The alert box is due to the fact that you are using a "mailto:" form. The browser does not send the info to the server, but rather uses your mail client to send the message directly to another address. If you had a secure site, you would break security for the user by doing this, since email traffic isn't protected. That's why the box appears, and is right in noticing the user that something unusual is going on.

To get rid of that you need to use a server-side script to process the incoming form data and send that to your email address. Google for "form mailer", there are at least 10^10 form mailing scripts out there in the wild. And if you decide for a PHP form mailer and you get into trouble installing it, you're welcome to post your questions about that into this forum... :)

[pottybotty]

Thank you for your help and I apologise for posting wrongly... I don't understand too much about php or even other type of scripts - I saw PHP in the forum title and I have php in the link... see, how newbie I am? :o

Thank you, again! :)

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Pottybotty