Does anyone know . . .

[Necromancer]

Does anyone know how to put a submit form on their page that will send the results to an e-mail address that you specifiy without the submitee having to send it with their e-mail client on their computer? Do I have to use CGI script or some other language I know nothing about?

[~DevilDog#1~]

Panther is your guys

[Scott]

first you have to build a form.. then you can get formmail.pl from here http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts...ml#Downloading to pass the emails to you hope this helps

[Scott]

you may run into a few problem though..
#1. dont think geocities suppots CGI
#2. dont think geocities suppots PHP
#3. you need a little experance to figure it out.. its not just poing and click you have to edit the files in notepad
But.. i coild sure tell you how to incert a form into a webpage... but they will have to use a email client

[~DevilDog#1~]

He means MS Outlook or CC Mail or whatever e-mail software is on your machine, not the POP accounts of Yahoo and Hotmail.

[Necromancer]

I already know how to do that. But I don't want the people sending data to let me know their e-mail address without them wanting to reveal it. that's what happens when I use my form.

[~DevilDog#1~]

Panther is your guys

[zza1pqx]

It is possible to do it without using scripting and without having a gobbledey gook message from the form.

I am ****ed if I can remember it but I will.

[Scott]

I know how to do it if you had php.. thats how the vs join and challenge forms work... the info i get about the person is the email he types in... the email is sent under my name so unless they type there email address in I cant get it... i suggest anyone using formmail.pl should switch to mailite.php3... it is way easier to set up and runs alot smoother considering its php!

I will look real fast if there is one in mabee javascript... brb

[Scott]

nope.. sorry i couldnt find one ill keep my eye out..

[Necromancer]

Can anyone else help me?

[Steve]

found an excellent link for u.
this is all i can say really cause i dont know how to send a form my self, i can make a from in html but i dont know how to set it up so it can be sent.
hopefully you will find all u need here http://html.about.com/cs/forms/

[Necromancer]

Sending a form is easy, I'm just looking for a way for the form to not be sent by e-mail. Thanks for the link SB, Im going to be going over this one for a while.

[Steve]

oh i get ya.

there are loads of cgi, php and asp scripts that do that. infact i reckon they all do that, surely?

so the original answer is YES, you do need to know cgi or soem scripting language u dont know anything about

[Necromancer]

Do you know if Java can do it? I know CGI can, but that takes forever to do. If possible, I'd like use Javascript for form sending.

[Steve]

hmm, i don't think so. but im not 100%.

i'll try to find out for u

[Steve]

looks liek ur gonna have to use server side scriping for the job, u need something that can process the data from th eform and JS cannot do that. found a link for u anyway about sending email via JS, but th examples ive seen just bring up ur default mail client
http://www.hotscripts.com/JavaScript...Email_Scripts/

[Necromancer]

Damn. I guess I'll just leave it then.

[zza1pqx]

At all stages of your web-site design you have to ask yourself, what is it that I am doing here, what is it meant to achieve?

If you really do need info off users and you think that they will want to give it to you then dont worry that their E-Mail address will be sent.

People who want to participate in these sort of things dont give a monkeys anyhow. When I am surfing my Default E-Mail is not the one that I actually use so you wouldn't get one worth having anyway.

In past web-sites I have added a line in the text saying that I guarantee no spam as a result of using my forms and that satisfies most people.

If you dont actually need user info though, then dont put in a from. Its bad design.

Forms or no forms, that is the question my friend. Any form you fill in on the entire web is likley to send you address to the forms recipient so why does it cause you a problem specificaly.?
It wont upset regular visitors to your site unles they are coming on to the web solely to use your site.....

[Necromancer]

Well, I guess I can live with what I've got.