Contact forms

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-12 03:30am

PLEASE, someone tell me they know how to do contact forms...????

~ver

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-12 02:20pm

Not enough info...?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-12 02:29pm

What are contact forms?

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-12 06:16pm

Pu-239 wrote:What are contact forms?

CGI scripts for web pages. I am trying to set required fields and set it to send to e-mail, but it's not working. And I'm getting really pissed off at it. And trying to avoid JavaScript as much as possible.

~ver

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-12 06:50pm

Why bother? Just make an email link.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-12 07:11pm

kojikun wrote:Why bother? Just make an email link.

Because it NEEDS to be a contact form.

~ver

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-12 10:48pm

Read here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/f ... #h-17.13.1

For the html part I can look it up really quick and code it )after I get done with setting up SAMBA on my home NW)(never needed it).

You probably need a perl script or something on the server to invoke sendmail or something to send stuff passed using HTTP post. I don't know perl but I'm sure DW can help you with that. There's also a bunch of scripts online you can use. Does angelfire give you a cgi-bin? Otherwise you have to use prohosting or something that does.

You probably want javascript for form validation though, so the user does not have to wait for the server to validate.

Never heard about forms being called contact forms.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-13 03:16am

Pu-239 wrote:Read here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/f ... #h-17.13.1

For the html part I can look it up really quick and code it )after I get done with setting up SAMBA on my home NW)(never needed it).

You probably need a perl script or something on the server to invoke sendmail or something to send stuff passed using HTTP post. I don't know perl but I'm sure DW can help you with that. There's also a bunch of scripts online you can use. Does angelfire give you a cgi-bin? Otherwise you have to use prohosting or something that does.

You probably want javascript for form validation though, so the user does not have to wait for the server to validate.

Never heard about forms being called contact forms.

bleh.. [slams head into desk] I despise JavaScript.. [sighs] Oh, well, thanks for the info, though.

~ver