How to Send a Form 1

[pindky]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to use (any) script to send a form from a web page.

Here's what the host has to say on the subject
"There are many ways to do this. You can use the FrontPage email bot, ASPMail, ASPEmail, JMail or a CGI script that support SMTP servers. The servers do not support Sendmail."

Okay -- what does this mean? I need really clear directions as to where to get the script, what folder it should be uploaded to and how to write the <form> tags to make it work.

Thanks,
pkl

 

[GUJUm0deL]

pindky, you need to first find out what scripts your hosting company will allow in your plan. Does your plan include CGI scripting?? ASP?? If they do, then visit:

http://www.aspin.com

for some scripts for sending forms.

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[pindky]

here's what they support, now what? ....

ASP Support

Cold Fusion 4.5

CGI/Perl
ASP Mail Component
ASPEmail Component
PHP Server Extensions
ASP Simple Upload Component

 

[TrmblingBluStar]

Here are some tutorials for ASP:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/51/index2a.html

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_inputforms.asp

and ColdFusion:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/17/index1a.html?tw=programming

You can find tutorials for nearly everyting imaginable at Web Monkey:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

As for which method to chose from, I believe that ColdFusion or ASP would be the easiest to learn. CGI with Perl is definetly the hardest.

Of course, that's only from my experience.

 

[ChrisHunt]

What exactly do you mean by &quot;send a form from a web page&quot;? A form is a collection of text boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes etc. that the user fills in and submits. It's easy to send them - they're built from HTML <input> tags. The question is, what do you want to do with the information that the user sends to you?

From the rest of your question, it seems that you want some kind of feedback form that sends the entered information to a particular email address. You can find plenty of scripts of this type at

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Form_Processing/

Each script will usually have a readme file describing how to set it up. It's not usually too complicated.

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