How To Get Contact Form To Work

[Petrolhead]

Hi there,

I'm creating a contact form for my website.

I have designed the form, but I'm not sure how to go about getting it to process the information and send it to me.

I guess I need to add some sort of script to the thank you page??

Can anyone help?

<div id="content">
 
<!-- Begin Main Page Content -->
<!-- main content section -->
 
<h1>
Contact
</h1>
<form method="POST" action="contact-info-thank-you.htm">
<table width="90%" cellspacing=5 cellpadding=5>
<tr>
<td align=left><b>Your name</b><br>
<input type="text" name="name" size=30 maxlength=50 id="name"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align=left><b>Your email address</b><br>
<input type="text" name="email" size=30 maxlength=255 id="email"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align=left><b>Message type</b><br>

<select name="subject"  id="subject">
<option value="Comment" selected>Feedback
<option value="Suggestion">Suggestion
<option value="Problem or typo">Problem or typo report
<option value="Other">Other
</select>
</td></tr>

<tr>
<td align=left><b>Your message</b><br>
<textarea cols="50" rows="5" name="Message"></textarea></td>
</tr>

<tr><td align=center colspan=2><input type="Submit" value="Submit Message"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<br>

</div>  <!-- content -->

<div id="content">
 
<!-- Begin Main Page Content -->
<!-- main content section -->
 
<h1>
Thank You!
</h1>

<p>
Thank you for contacting me.  All messages are read, and I will reply to you as soon as possible.
</p>

</div>  <!-- content -->

 

[vacunita]

The question is what you want to do with the information from the form?

But yes you'll need a script likely.

So you need to tell us what programming languages are available to you and/or supported by the web server this is going to be hosted on.

Second is what kind of processing you want to have done?


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[Petrolhead]

I want the information in the form to be e-mailed to me.

Preferrably the name, e-mail & subject selected in the form to appear as the name, from and subject on the e-mail so I can use the reply function.

I would prefer to use ASP, as it's closest to VBA which I have some background in.

I've been trying this script but it doesn't e-mail anything to me or display the success page.

<%

' declare variables
Dim EmailTo
Dim Subject
Dim Name
Dim Subject
Dim E-MailAddress
Dim Message

' get posted data into variables
EmailTo = "tirvine24@gmail.com"
Subject = Trim(Request.Form("Subject")) 
Name = Trim(Request.Form("Name"))  
E-MailAddress = Trim(Request.Form("Email")) 
Message = Trim(Request.Form("Message")) 

' validation
Dim validationOK
validationOK=true
If  (Trim(Name)="")  Then validationOK=false
If (Trim(Subject)="") Then validationOK=false
If (Trim(Email)="") Then validationOK=false
If (Trim(Message)="") Then validationOK=false
If (validationOK=false) Then Response.Redirect("error.htm")

' prepare email body text
Dim Body
Body = Body & "Name: " & Name & VbCrLf
Body = Body & "Subject: " & Subject & VbCrLf
Body = Body & "E-MailAddress: " & E-MailAddress & VbCrLf
Body = Body & "Message: " & Message & VbCrLf

' send email 
Dim mail
Set mail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") 
mail.To = EmailTo
mail.Subject = Subject
mail.Body = Body
mail.Send 

' redirect to success page 
Response.Redirect("contact-info-thank-you.htm")
%>

I'd also prefer it if I could have these as required fields rather than having a separate error page, but I'm struggling here, bit out of my depth.

 

[vacunita]

Well I''m really not very familiar with ASP, so I'll point you to the forum for ASP here at Tek-tips. I'm sure the guys there will be more than happy to help you fix your script to get it work.

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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.