Submit button

[bob adams]

How do you make the "Submit" button email to my email address? Right now the
code is:
<input type="text" value="email address" name="ccfunewsletteremail"> <input
type="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" value="Reset">

Thanks.

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

How do you make the "Submit" button email to my email address?

Server-side script.

 

[bob adams]

What?

Server-side script.

 

[Daniel Ruscoe]

What?

You need a script to process the form. HTML alone will not do this.

http://formtoemail.com/

The instructions are simple to follow.

 

[Chet]

| How do you make the "Submit" button email to my email address?
Right now the
| code is:
| <input type="text" value="email address"
name="ccfunewsletteremail"> <input
| type="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset"
value="Reset">
|
| Thanks.
|
Is the input field and button within form tags? And what is the
action, i.e., action="path towards a script".

You might check with your host, many have a script on the server
for sending form results or google for e-mail scripts for the
type of server you're on.

hth

 

[bob adams]

How do you use PHP? My host has it.

You need a script to process the form. HTML alone will not do this.

http://formtoemail.com/

The instructions are simple to follow.

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

How do you use PHP?

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php

 

[Daniel Ruscoe]

How do you use PHP? My host has it.

You don't even need to know that much.

Just visit the URL (website address) I gave above then do this:

1) Download the script. The filename is "FormToEmail.php". It is inside
a zip package named FormToEmail.zip. Open this and drag the .php file to
a safe location on your desktop.

2) Open FormToEmail.php in Notepad and enter your email address between
the quote marks (" ") after '$email'.

3) Click File, then Save. Close Notepad.

4) Upload the script to your webspace. Either do this via FTP or, if via
whatever method you usually use to upload files. This could be web-
based, where you upload your files through a form on a website.

5) Copy and Paste this code into your web page:

<form action="FormToEmail.php" method="post">
<table border="0" bgcolor="#ececec" cellspacing="5">
<tr><td><font face="arial"><b>Name</b></font></td><td><input
type="text" size="30" name="name"></td></tr>
<tr><td><font face="arial"><b>Email address</b></font></td><td><input
type="text" size="30" name="formemail"></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><font face="arial"><b>Comments</b></font></td><td>
<textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="30"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type="submit" value="Send"><font
face="arial" size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;FormToEmail by <a
href="http://scriptsthatwork.com">ScriptsThatWork.com</a></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

6) Use the form to send yourself an email.

 

[Bob]

6) Use the form to send yourself an email.

Following up on Daniel's excellent reply:

Here's what's happening: The user pulls the form/web page. They
fill in the form. They click on submit. The browser gathers up
the data in the form, and sends it to the web server. Along with
that it sends a request to run the program in the "action"
attribute on your form statement.

At the server, the program (action) is started by the server.
The data is made available to the program and the program
does whatever it does. In this case, it will email the data
to the proper address.

Be aware that you might have to put the .php program in a
specific directory on the server to get it to work. If you
have any questions on that, ask your web hosting firm or check
their site for PHP information. Also, hosts typically have a
program available that will already do what you want - check
that before even bothering with your own.

 

[john]

Thanks folks - a most informative thread.

 

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[PeterMcC]

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