Form Submittion Acknowledgement - How?

[SSJpn]

Hi,

I have a simple that gets emailed to me when submitted. I would like to send the submitter an email to let them know that their form was received. How and when is this done?

Do I have a script with my submittion button? Do I wait until I actually receive the email in my inbox and perhaps have some script with my email?

how?

thanks,

SSJpn

 

[dwarfthrower]

It would need to be a back-end process.

 

[deecee]

what type of server script are you using, ASP, PHP, DOS, XBOX, Cracker Jack, JSP, CFM or Fritos? It would have to be one of these.

In theory when the user hits submit your server will send 2 email -- 1 to you and 1 to him -- each different because you dont really care for much except the info but you would like a little extra for the user.

As for your other 2 questions -- YES, and If you really want to go this route then sure.

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[clarkin]

if your 'simple form' is using the mailto: tag as its action target, then I recommend you change it from a simple form to a 'medium form'.

[tt]<form action=&quot;mailto:SSJpn@somewhere.blah&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot; enctype=&quot;text/plain&quot;>
...
</form>[/tt]

This is BAD. See here:

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2468

The bottom line is, if your form uses mailto then less people will submit it and more people will be annoyed about wasting their time. Use a server-side mail send instead

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[SSJpn]

Thanks all,

looks like I need to setup some backend scripting then.

SSJpn

 

[JillC]

Hi SSJpn,

Try AlphaMail. Easy to configure, hides the addresses on the alphamail.pl file, has a response page and autorespond. No multipage. It's free, too.

http://www.cgidir.com/Scripts/Mailing_Lists/

There are hundreds of scripts around if you start searching through Google etc. Just be careful - most are old scripts without the security features of newer scripts.