[Jaymie1989]

Hi,

I want to create a contact forum and i want to use my own database and not one from a third-party site.

How would I do this?

[lumentec]

You must own a domain name to do this.

[Jaymie1989]

Originally Posted by lumentec

You must own a domain name to do this.

I do

[Sequal7]

Originally Posted by Jaymie1989

Hi,

I want to create a contact forum and i want to use my own database and not one from a third-party site.

How would I do this?

You want a contact forum or form? What type of database does your host allow?

[Jaymie1989]

form, MySQL5

[Sequal7]

What is the purpose of the form? Do you know what fields you want the form to have and should it email someone and store the data, or just store the data? How will you retrieve this data?

You could be more forth coming on what you want your form to so, and what it is for.

[Jaymie1989]

The form would be to contact me. with fields such as name, email address, drop down menu with the options of Comment, Question, Support, Other and a text box.

I would like it to be forwarded to my PM Box on my forum if possible?

[TheRobatron]

It's just simple HTML and PHP that you need.
The form:

<form action="processform.php" method="get"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input name="name"  type="text" /> <label for="email">Email:</label> <input name="email" type="text" /> <select name="reason"> <option value="comment">comment</option> <option value="question">question</option> <option value="support">support</option> </select> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> </form>

And then any other fields. Then you'd need some basic PHP:

PHP Code:

$message .= "\n" . $_REQUEST['name'];
$message .= "\n" . $_REQUEST['email'];
// Request all the other fields in this way.
mail("youremail@email.com", "Subject", "$message", "From: someone@mail.com"); 


That should work...

[Jaymie1989]

Wouldnt I have to add anything to my mysql database?

[TheRobatron]

It depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to store it on your site and then access it later in pages, then you could put it in a database, but using my code, it mails it to you directly and is not stored on the site. This is what most contact forms do.

You said you wanted the mail forwarded to your PM box on your forum. Is that this forum or a different one? It might be possible to send information to the server and make it look like a PM, but it's unlikely, as there will be validation code to stop spammers doing it.

[Jaymie1989]

That would be this forum.

[Sequal7]

Nope, you can't cross script (besides, to input into a database you need to know the username, password, IP, field values) and I am pretty sure you don't have that for techguy forums.

It is as TheRobatron said, a security risk that most scripts would stop from processing.