[Shaun3766]

hello everyone, I have started playing about with forms and submit buttons - Im trying to make a basic enquiry form, this is what I have so far:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<p>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="Status" value="radio" />
Mr</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="Status" value="radio" />
Mrs</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="Status" value="radio" />
Miss</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="Status" value="radio" />
Ms</label>
</p>
<p>
<label>First Name:
<input name="textfield" type="text" value="" />
</label>
</p>
<p>Surname:
<input type="text" name="textfield2" />
</p>
<p>Type of Query
<select name="Type of Query">
<option value="Select">Please Select Your Type of Query</option>
<option value="Select">Please Select Your Type of Query 2</option>
<option value="Select">Please Select Your Type of Query 3</option>
<option value="Select">Please Select Your Type of Query 4</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label></label>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" onclick="first_1st_parties@hotmail.co.uk" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>

What I am wanting to know is, can someone tell me how I can make the 'Submit' button send an email to my email account without opening any programs to send the email, such as outlook express.

any help would be appreciated

Thanks, Shaun

Added 21-02-06 @ 9.56

I was also wondering how I would get the submit button to take me to a new page saying something along the line of 'Your Email has been sent'

[a_k]

I would also like to know how this is done. So if anybody knows, please help.

[brendandonhu]

Not in HTML- you need a serverside language like PHP or Perl.

[Shaun3766]

any suggestions brendon? as to were to start etc, I am only famailar with html, not sure about php

[brendandonhu]

Do you know if your webhost supports PHP?

[Shaun3766]

im not sure m8, my forum hoster is fasthosts.co.uk - its the 3.99 one...

[~Biker~]

Yes it does.


Website features included

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* SiteBuilder - easy website creation tool
* 2 FTP accounts
* MatrixStats - website statistics
* Google AdWords - £30 voucher included
* ASP, PHP and Perl CGI scripting

Email features included

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* 200 Standard mailboxes
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* Web mail - send & receive email from anywhere
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[brendandonhu]

You can use something like this to email the results
http://webdevfaqs.com/php.php#mailer

[tasher]

check out whiz-mail.cc. I use this for a load of small websites.

It is a great service where you pass details via a <form> that does all the handling for you.

You can trial it first, then it is a small fee depending on what you want..

good luck

[peril0us]

There are tons of free scripts you could load that would do it for you, as long as your host supports them.

If you want a really simple solution that involves no programming check out www.response-o-matic.com.

[thecoalman]

You can do it with e-mail but you get not one but two warnings with IE, the reason is so a webpage can't collect your email by "hiding" the form and using it to collect email addresses.... It would just be a matter of making the submit button look like a link

Anyway just use mailto:youremailaddress@yourisp.com as the action value in the first line.

Most likely your server has formmail preinstalled, if so you only have to point it at the script and add a recipient value to the form, there's more here: http://forums.techguy.org/web-develo...ting-form.html

[peril0us]

Dont use mailto.

[thecoalman]

I'm not recommending it, if anything I would discourage it. Warning windows will drive people away.... It can be done though.